Battleship

After watching a movie with your children or students, we encourage parents and teachers to look for education opportunities to teach with movies. Here are a few discussion topics that can help with lesson plans or teaching in the home.

Actual destroyers featured in the film include the USS Sampson, USS John Paul Jones, USS Ronald Reagan and USS Missouri. The USS Missouri now serves as the centerpiece of the Battleship Missouri Memorial in Pearl Harbor. Would a retired battleship that is serving as a museum still have live ammunition aboard? How easy would it be for the soldiers to get the boat up and running in a matter of minutes? How does the warfare conducted during the Korean War compare with combat today?

US Army Colonel Gregory Gadson serves as a Director in the US Wounded Warrior Project, a program designed to assist and support severely wounded or sick soldiers and their families. How can these programs help soldiers and their families adjust to difficult circumstances?

RIMPAC is the world’s largest international maritime exercise involving numerous nations. The event is meant to promote stability in the region. RIMPAC 2012 begins June 29.