This Powerpoint is all about Remembrance Day, the poppies usage etc. Used for kids Grade 6 upwards.

2. Remembrance Day

3. What is Remembrance Day?
• A.K.A Poppy Day, Armistice (a truce) Day
• Memorial Day
• Commemorated by British Commonwealth of Nations

4. What is Remembrance Day?
• Originally established to remember the soldiers who died
during WW1 defending our Freedoms and Democracy
• Memorial event to remember soldiers who died in all the wars

5. Why Poppies?
• Flanders Field: Southern Belgium and North-West France
• Bloomed in the worst battlefield of Flanders
• Symbolization

6. In Flanders Field by Lt. Col.
John McCrae
• From Guelph; Ontario; Canada
• Famous poet
• Most famous for “In Flanders Field”

7. Reading & Video: In
Flanders Field by Lt. Col.
John McCrae

8. Leading Seaman: Nicoles
Muir

9. What is the 1 minute silence
• 11th November 11:00 am
• To remember the soldiers who fought for their countries

10. 1 Minute Silence

11. Thank you for
listening