My 8th grade cold war lesson plans

For this project, Students team up individually or in pairs and become modern day “muckrakers”. Their mission will be to investigate a problem that currently exists and is causing damage or harm to some sector of our modern-day society. The problem must relate to something that is happening today. Students will learn what it is like to be an investigative journalist. I have brainstormed 20-25 topics for your students to the project on. There are 6 questions that will help scaffold your student's research. You can make this into a essay paper, brochure, Prezi or PowerPoint presentation. My students loved pretending to be journalist and investigating topics that were of fascinating to them. -Students will need access to internet to research for this project Total Pages 2 Teaching Duration 3 Days

Students will be brainstorming ideas and creating a Bill to make their school a better place. Students will put their knowledge of the process of how laws are created and ultimately submit their ideas to the Principle if their Bill is chosen. A very fun 3 day assignment. Great essay assignment on how to change your school. This was my final benchmark for my 8th graders, after we had finished studying Constitution, US government and the democratic process of how ideas become laws.

Attached is a Powerpoint, links to videos and a webquest on the Cuban missile crisis and future of nuclear war. This webquest has students explore the threat of nuclear war during the cold war era in conjunction with the threat today and how countries are attempting to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of Terrorists. *Technology is needed for this assignment.

The activity provide four primary documents that students must analyze on an accompanying worksheet. Students are analyzing what influential and common people of the United States so passionately believed in Manifest Destiny. Powerpoinst also included: California Gold Rush and Texas Independence and Mexican American War Total Pages 4 Teaching Duration 70 Minutes

In this bundle there are 8 World War 2 activities. I tried to gear these towards my 8th grade students Products WW1 Propaganda Poster project- Students will create their own World War1 propaganda poster Tora Tora Tora- This video guide follows the Pearl Harbor film Tora, Tora, Tora. It has the time of the questions so students can follow along. Two separate video guides: From the History Channel and PBS. The videos answer the essential question: How did Hitler rise to power and what were his goals? The Kristallnacht worksheet has a video as well as an activity exploring the Nuremberg laws. total pages-5 The Manhattan Project video guide The short video guide from the history channel discusses the story of the Atomic bomb from it's conception to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 15-20 minute assignment Total Pages-1 The wave movie video guide and questions This movie follows the 1960's classroom experiment of teacher Ron Jones and how he implemented Nazi Fascism in classroom. The movie explores if a radical like Hitler could rise to power today? Link to movie and questions are provided. Very engaging Total pages-1 WW2 vocabulary This activity asks students to define over 30 key terms involving World War 2. Total Pages-3 WW2 test with notes for students

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In this assignment, Students will be listing the top 5 most impactful pandemics in world history and analyze how they may have changed history! For example some of the questions they will be researching are: -Where did the Pandemic originate? The casualty rate? C. How they affected the health of the country: Their economy, military and politics D. How did it change the history of the country or empire? For example did it lead to their decline? Did the workers receive more rights? There are also several questions at the end. There are some internet links to help as a resource