The Homeschool Movie Club has a few free curriculum guides for popular movies, including War Horse. This guide is for junior high - high school students and can be downloaded here.
If you need some extension activities, be sure to check out the following links:
Learn about teen life in 1914 with this printable from Scholastic.
Dramatize a scene from a work of historical fiction using these steps. Teaching ideas for this worksheet can be found here.
Download a free 56-page novel study guide. This guide is full of activities, crossword puzzles, word finds and more!
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History
Use this interactive map to view pre-and-post-war Europe.
Read poetry from The Muse in Arms, a collection of wartime poetry (available for free).
Learn about Warrior, a real war horse. You also can view a video about him here.
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The Arts
Learn to draw a horse in pencil using this free step-by-step guide.
Use this very informative tutorial to draw each part of the horse. This tutorial is especially helpful for drawing features and different poses.
Use this teaching guide (made for War Horse, the play) to learn about the use of puppetry to tell the story of War Horse. This guide has some great historical information as well. If you have a child interested in the mechanics of professional puppetry, you can watch this video about how the horse puppet in the play was made.
You can learn to draw horses with Jan Brett with this video.
Check out this extensive list of activities and useful links for your 8 - 14-year-old children. Make a memory box, play a game, paint a poem and more!
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Bible and Character Lessons
Use these questions to discuss character qualities featured in War Horse.
Download a free lesson in faithfulness from Kids of Integrity to further teach the importance of loyalty. You can access planning tools and a parent guide for this lesson as well.
Kids of Integrity also features lessons in courage.
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Label the parts of a horse using this printable.
If you want an extensive learning guide about horses, download this freebie from Minnesota 4-H Horseless Horse Project.
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Library Book Suggestions
Read Where Poppies Grow, a book about World War 1 that tells the story in a scrapbook format. This book features photos of original documents, including hand-written letters from soldiers to their mothers.
Older readers will enjoy The War to End All Wars, which shows the issues that contributed to the war as well as the seeds that were sown for the second world war.
Shooting at the Stars tells the story of the Christmas Truce of 1914.
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