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Opper Project: Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach History (Lesson Plans) Lesson PlanOpper Project: Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach History (Lesson Plans) Lesson Plan
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Ohio State University
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9th - 10th
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Social Studies & History
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Opper Project: Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach History (Lesson Plans)

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Two dozen lessons that focus on using political cartoons as primary source resources for teaching American history. Lessons cover a range of topics in U.S. history from the Civil War era forward and are linked to Ohio content standards.

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Concepts

editorial cartoons, energy crisis, immigration, nuclear weapons, political cartoons, women's suffrage, american imperialism, prohibition, reconstruction

Additional Tags

14 points, 1896 election, 1912 election, civil rights movement, cold war, election of 1896, election of 1912, fourteen points, teaching with primary source documents, teaching with primary sources, treaty of versailles, great depression, league of nations, lincoln, nixon and watergate, opper project, anti-vietnam war protests

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional

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