Veterans Day Activities, Printables & Lessons

Veterans Day Videos

Expand your lessons and increase students' knowledge of Veteran's Day with these short videos and extension activities geared to different grade level groups.

• Veterans Day Videos & Activities
• More Patriotic Art Activities

Printables

Use our printables to enhance your teaching strategies about Veteran's Day. Includes the biography of John McCain and activities, creating a stamp for ANZAC Day, and reading warm-ups.

• ANZAC Day: Design a Stamp
• United States Flag Bulletin Board Example
• Armed Forces Survey
• Charles Kingsford Smith – Reading Comprehension
• Origin of Veterans Day Worksheet
• Veterans Day/Remembrance Day
• Commanding Officer Reading Warm-Up
• Reading Guide for My Dad, John McCain
• Remembrance Day
• Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
• More Veterans Day Printables

Lesson Plans

Choose from our Lesson Plans to expand your students' knowledge through writing a class newspaper, reading a story about Veteran's Day with accompanying comprehension questions, and learning more about poetry by reading a Veteran's Day poem.

• The History & Poetry of "In Flanders Fields"
• Veterans Day Newspaper
• What Is Veterans Day?

Reading & Language Arts Resources

Teach your students about Veteran's Day through reading books with activities, studying poetry, and using writing skills by arranging sentences into paragraph order.

• The History & Poetry of "In Flanders Fields"
• The Wall: Literature Guide for Teachers
• Slaughterhouse-Five
• "In Flanders Fields"
• Veterans Day Comprehension Questions
• Three Famous Americans in the Civil War
• The History & Poetry of "In Flanders Fields"
• The Wall: Literature Guide for Teachers
• War and Peace

Music Activities

Interconnect music into your lessons on Veteran's Day and expand students' knowledge by teaching about the background of the National Anthem and other patriotic songs.

• "Star-Spangled Banner"
• Patriotic Songs

Social Studies Resources

Explore our Social Studies Resources to extend students' learning through videos with activities, studying the history of the draft, and suggestions with detailed information on organizing school-wide activities for Veteran's Day.

• Veterans Day Videos & Activities
• Chronology of Conscription in the U.S. -- Colonial Era to 1999
• The History & Poetry of "In Flanders Fields"
• The Wall: Literature Guide for Teachers
• Slaughterhouse-Five
• Veterans Day Commemoration Activities
• The Story of Veterans Day
• Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
• United States Flag Bulletin Board
• United States Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag
• More Social Studies Resources

History Resources

Students' knowledge of history will be expanded with these resources. Includes an article about the Congressional Medal of Honor with recipient's names, a chart of U.S. casualties of major wars, and a study of battles that were important in history.

• Veterans Day Videos & Activities
• The History & Poetry of "In Flanders Fields"
• The Wall: Literature Guide for Teachers
• Slaughterhouse-Five
• What Is Veterans Day?
• Battles That Changed History
• National Cemeteries
• U.S. Congressional Medal of Honor
• U.S. Casualties in the Major Wars
• Veterans of U.S. Wars and Their Dependents
• More History Resources