Good morning, everyone. All good morning. I hope everyones had a good week so far. I certainly did whenever i was here a couple years ago. So this morning im going to talk to you about the food fights or rationing in world war ii. We all know that teenagers and most of us work with teenagers have large appetites. I have one at home with an incredibly large appetite. Id like to try to engage kids with a topic that not only fits their appetite but also increases their appetite for learning. And i find that food is oftentimes a very engaging topic. Napoleon or frederick the great, depending on who you listen to, once said that an army marches on its stomach. To supply not just the u. S. Army but increasingly throughout world war ii also that of our allies. Prisoners are war, and those we the people of the United States had to implement Innovative Solutions to foundational problems. Food production and distribution. These solutions impact not only wartime but also the way that we eat today
They explore government restrictions on styles and colors and impact on innovations in fashion such as cork wedge heels and glow in the dark buttons. This is half an hour. Really excited to invite becky to come up here and irene. They teach in virginia. Were so stoked that she brought another teacher from her school this year. This is a model. Tell your friends to come to our conference. Okay. Please join me in welcoming them up for their presentation. She stole my line. Tell your friends and teachers to come. Irene and i will talk about but fashionen t fashi fashion on the ration. In the United States we did not ration clothing as much as the british did. We had restrictions. 50 of japans exports are fabric and silk. 32 of that comes to the United States. They were our only source of silk. This is where all your restriction, not all, but most come in. We want to reduce by 15 domestic fabric production and also wool by 40 . This is one o things we talk about with the kids not being abl
You about world war ii food provisions and how that can be an awesome thing to teach and do an activity with in the classroom. Please help me in welcoming karen. [ applause ] good morning, everyone. All good morning. I hope everyones had a good week so far. I certainly did whenever i was here a couple years ago. So this morning im going to talk to you about the food fights or rationing in world war ii. We all know that teenagers and most of us work with teenagers have large appetites. I have one at home with an incredibly large appetite. Id like to try to engage kids with a topic that not only fits their appetite but also increases their appetite for learning. And i find that food is oftentimes a very engaging topic. Napoleon or frederick the great, depending on who you listen to, once said that an army marches on its stomach. To supply not just the u. S. Army but increasingly throughout world war ii also that of our allies. Prisoners of war and those who we lib lated in the civilian p
World war ii memorial, this is half an hour. So, really excited to invite Becky Morrison and areen winchester to tell us about fashion innovation in world war ii. They both teach in virginia. Becky is one of our Community Service superstars and were so stoked that you brought another teacher from her school this year. This is a model, like, bring tell your friends to come to our conference. Okay. Please join me in welcoming them up for their presentation. [ applause ] she stole my line because i was going to say this is probably the best teacher conference you can ever go to and thats why i brought irene this year. This is my third year. And i just want you guys to go back to your school and encourage all your teacher friends to come because this is such a valuable conference. So thank you, friends, of the world war ii memorial for inviting me back again for your number three. So irene and i are going to talk about well see this in a video later on but fashion on the ration. And so in
And we are so stoked that she brought a colleague. Please join me in welcoming them for our presentation. Becky she stole my line because i was going to say this is probably the best teacher conference you can go to. That is why i brought irene this year. This is my third year. I want you to go back to your school and encourage all of your teacher friends to come because this is such a valuable conference. Thank you friends of the world war ii memorial for inviting me back again for your third. Irene and i are going to talk about, and we will see it in the video, fashion on the ration. Nothe united states, we did ration clothing as much as the british did. But we had some severe restrictions on rationing. One of the things you can see from the powerpoint is that 50 of japans exports are fabric and silk. 32 of that comes to the united states. And that they were our only source of silk. So you can imagine how, obviously, pearl harbor is going to impact silk and other fabrics in the unite