Communism Lesson Plans

Learners study communism. In this world history lesson, learners discuss the similarities and differences between communism and democracies by writing Venn Diagrams.

In this lesson students explore communism from historical and theoretical perspectives to present to fellow classmates at a teach-in. Each team of students be responsible for researching and presenting on one of the suggested topics in the lesson.

Students explore the positive and negative aspects of Adam Smith's and Karl Marx's economic concepts. After observing a video on communism, they discuss the present day existence of communism. They create a KWL chart and research and compare the characteristics of capitalism, socialism and communism.

In this lesson students explain the rise of socialism and communism in the context of the political and industrial revolutions. They summarize relevant literary or political documents and develop definitions of socialism and communism.

Students examine Communism in China. In this Chinese history lesson, students view a PowerPoint presentation about the Great Leap Forward. Students then write essays about the Great Leap Forward and its effect on China. The PowerPoint file is not provided.

Learners study Russia's conversion from a communist nation to a capitalist nation.

Students explore the beginning of Communism.  In this World History lesson, students exhibit their knowledge of Communism and the Marshall Plan through completion of a map activity.

Learners "discover" top secret documents that describe the "Patriot" program. They are assigned the task of educating the American people about the threat of Soviets taking over America, including the key points of the Truman Doctrine from 1945 to 1990.

In this lesson students identify and explain the Tiananmen Square incident of June 1989. Studentsl compare what it is to be an American Citizen (Democracy) vs. Chinese Citizen (Communism). In this lesson students identify and define various vocabulary terms, including The Bill of Rights. In this lesson students read and analyze several websites and video on the Tiananmen Square incident.

Learners participate in a closed-market simulation to experience the characteristics of communism. In this communism lesson, learners evaluate pohotgraphs of Russian learners and compare them to American learners. Learners take a quiz and purchase candy from a store based on a communist system. Learners discuss and write a paper comparing and contrasting communism and capitalism.