Traveling Trunk Program
ALERT: The Museum of History and Holocaust Education's Traveling Trunk program is temporarily suspended due to coronavirus (COVID-19). Visit our Digital Education webpage for virtual options.
Contact us at 470-578-2083 or mhhe@kennesaw.edu with questions.
All of our traveling trunks are free to borrow within the state of Georgia; contact us to inquire about shipping costs. To reserve a traveling trunk, please click the above reservation link.
Between the Wars: The Great Depression and the New Deal
Recommended for 5th-12th Grades
Explore the turbulent era between the World Wars with this trunk from the Museum of History and Holocaust Education at Kennesaw State University. Included are primary and secondary sources that supplement your student’s learning about this important event in United States history and how President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the United States government mobilized Americans to end the Depression. This trunk contains a teacher’s guide with lessons that incorporate the included resources and meet the Georgia Standards of Excellence.
World War II: An Overview
Recommended for 5th-12th Grades
Supplement your students’ learning about World War II with this trunk from the Museum of History and Holocaust Education at Kennesaw State University. This trunk provides introductory groundwork for one of the most significant events in twentieth century history. The trunk includes primary and secondary resources for your students to analyze and use in the lesson plans provided in the teacher’s guide. The lessons incorporate history, English Language Arts, and geography standards.
Pair this trunk with the Introduction to World War II In-School Presentation
The Front Lines: A Soldiers Life in World War II
Recommended for 5th Grade
Explore life on the front lines during World War II with this trunk from Kennesaw
State University’s Museum of History and Holocaust Education. Students will analyze
primary sources, including military provisions (helmet, jacket, mess kit, and others)
used in the war, and supplement their learning with secondary sources. This trunk
includes a teacher’s guide, a variety of primary sources and correlating classroom
activities.
Pair this trunk with the Introduction to World War II In-School Presentation.
Children in the Holocaust
Recommended for 5th-12th Grades
By analyzing the primary sources provided in this trunk from Kennesaw State University’s
Museum of History and Holocaust Education, students will gain a better understanding
of the Holocaust, as well as put names and faces to the event. This trunk includes
a teacher’s guide, a variety of primary sources and correlating classroom activities.
These activities, designed for one or two class periods, engage students in discussion
and analysis of various primary sources, including photography, oral history interviews,
and newspaper articles.
Combine this trunk with the Introduction to the Holocaust or Elie Wiesel's Night In-School Presentations and the Never Forget: An Introduction to the Holocaust, Remembering Ravensbrück: Women and the Holocaust, Parallel Journeys: The Holocaust Through the Eyes of Teens, or In Her Father’s Eyes: A Slovak Childhood in the Shadow of the Holocaust Traveling Exhibitions.
World War II on the Home Front
Recommended for 5th and 9th-12th Grades
How were lives changed at home in America during World War II? How did rationing affect
what people purchased? How did Americans on the Home Front communicate with loved
ones fighting overseas? What new roles did women take during the war? This trunk from
Kennesaw State University’s Museum of History and Holocaust Education has the answers
to these questions and more, by providing a range of artifacts and secondary material
related to life on the Home Front in World War II. This trunk includes a teacher’s
guide, a variety of primary sources and correlating classroom activities.
Combine this trunk with the America at War or Beyond Rosie: Women in World War II In-School Presentations and the Beyond Rosie: Women in World War II Traveling Exhibition.
Beyond Rosie: Women in World War II
Recommended for 5th-12th Grades
What roles did women play to ensure victory in World War II? How did these roles differ
from before the war? What kinds of articles did women read about during World War
II? Discover the answers to these questions and more with this trunk from Kennesaw
State University’s Museum of History and Holocaust Education. This trunk includes
a teacher’s guide, a variety of primary sources and correlating classroom activities.
Combine this trunk with the Beyond Rosie: Women in World War II In-School Presentation and the Beyond Rosie: Women in World War II Traveling Exhibition.
The Tuskegee Airmen: The Segregated Skies of World War II
Recommended for 5th and 9th-12th Grades
Through the use of historic photography analysis and research, students will explore
the history and bravery of the first group of African American pilots in the United
States Military, the Tuskegee Airmen. This trunk from Kennesaw State University’s
Museum of History and Holocaust Education includes a teacher’s guide, a variety of
primary sources and correlating classroom activities.
Combine this trunk with The Tuskegee Airmen: The Segregated Skies of World War II In-School Presentation and The Tuskegee Airmen: The Segregated Skies of World War II Traveling Exhibition.
Georgia in World War II
Recommended for 8th Grade
How did the State of Georgia influence the outcome of World War II? How did World
War II impact the State of Georgia economically and politically? What role did the
Bell Aircraft plant in Marietta play in the development of Georgia? Find out the answers
to these questions and more in this trunk from Kennesaw State University’s Museum
of History and Holocaust Education. This trunk includes a teacher’s guide, a variety
of primary sources and correlating classroom activities.
Pair this trunk with the Georgia at War In-School Presentation and the Georgia Journeys Traveling Exhibition.
Propaganda and Political Cartoons
Recommended for 5th-12th Grades
Discover the power of propaganda and political cartoons during World War II and the role they played to persuade people during the rise of Nazism and America’s entry into the war. This trunk, from Kennesaw State University’s Museum of History and Holocaust Education, provides examples of propaganda and political cartoons for primary source analysis. The trunk includes a teacher’s guide, a variety of primary sources and correlating classroom activities.
Franklin D. Roosevelt: American Hero
Recommended for 5th Grade
Discover the life of President Franklin D. Roosevelt with this trunk from Kennesaw
State University’s Museum of History and Holocaust Education designed to meet the
new fifth grade standards. Who was Franklin? What were his accomplishments during
his years in the White House? Students will analyze primary and secondary sources
in the trunk to discover the answers to these questions and more. This trunk includes
a teacher’s guide, a variety of primary sources and correlating classroom activities.
Pair this trunk with the Eleanor Roosevelt trunk to round out your lesson on this
First Couple.
Eleanor Roosevelt: American Hero
Recommended for 5th Grade
Explore the life of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt with a trunk from Kennesaw State
University’s Museum of History and Holocaust Education designed to meet the new fifth
grade standards. Who was Eleanor? What were her accomplishments as First Lady and
as a private citizen after she left the White House? Students will analyze primary
and secondary sources in the trunk to discover the answers to these questions and
more. This trunk includes a teacher’s guide, a variety of primary sources and correlating
classroom activities.
Pair this trunk with the Franklin D. Roosevelt trunk to round out your lesson on this
First Couple.
Children on the Home Front
Recommended for 5th-12th Grades
Examine the lives of children from the United States, Great Britain and Germany in this new trunk from Kennesaw State University’s Museum of History and Holocaust Education. What were children listening to on the radio? What games and toys did children play with during World War II? What did Japanese American children experience in the internment camps? And, how were children’s experiences similar and different around the world? Find out the answers to these questions and more by requesting this trunk today. This trunk includes a teacher’s guide, a variety of primary sources and correlating classroom activities.
World War II: A Modern War
Recommended for 5th and 9-12th Grades | Social Studies + STEM
Explore the technological and scientific innovations made during World War II with the Museum of History and Holocaust Education’s newest traveling STEM trunk from Kennesaw State University. Students will discover the importance of rationing, radio waves, penicillin and various engineering feats, such as the Jeep and the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. This trunk includes a teacher’s guide, a variety of primary sources and correlating classroom activities. Each lesson will be paired with an activity for students to complete meeting both social studies and science standards.
