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- 6th - 8th
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Students discover how President Eisehower's brand of diplomacy at this Pennsylvania farm tempriarly easted tenions of the Cold War. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the various domestic and international problems in the 1950s. They conduct research, write a script, and role-play a family discussing issues at the table at dinnertime in the 1950s. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students discuss how much effort and planning would therefore be needed to plan a secret invasion such as D-Day. They use library and Internet resources to find out what strategies were employed on D-Day and what the results of D-Day were. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students document and list excerpts from a document that shows how calmly officials reacted to the launching of Sputnik. They research contemporary magazines and newspaper articles of the day as well. Full Review »
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- 6th - 7th
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Students identify key events and participants in the Central High Crisis Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students explore percentage of votes received by presidential candidates in Texas from 1932-1944. They create a bar graph of the collected data. From interpreting data, students conclude what factors brought about the Eisenhower victory over Stevenson in Texas. They investigate political trends of 1952. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students discuss and review the key events of the Cold War during Eisenhower's presidency. After the review, they conduct research in order to prepare for staging a presidential news conference that could have taken place at that time. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students participate in a role-playing activity where they assume the roles of families in the 1950s. The groups members work together to identify a topic of the 1950s that would be discussed around the dinner table. They research their topic using both print and non-print resources as well as conduct interviews with family members who remember the time period. Groups stage their dinner conversation in front of the rest of the class. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students examine the preparations for the invasion of France on June 6, 1944. After viewing a clip from "The War", they identify the demands and concerns of all military leaders for this invasion. They use maps to examine the geographical challenges and discuss the sacrifice of the soliders on that fateful day. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students explore events from Pearl Harbor to dropping of atom bombs, identify state of Hawaii and the towns of Nagasaki and Hiroshima on maps, develop timeline consisting of at least three important events, and state state three influences of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and General Eisenhower during this time. Full Review »