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Download full textKelly, Freda – 2000
The "philosophes" of the Enlightenment Period were a group of free (different) thinkers who offered commentary on societal issues. Often, they were like one of today's social commentators suggesting reforms for the political system. Since the United States during the era of the Revolutionary War was seeking reform of what they considered…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, European History, Grade 10, Group Activities
Fix, Terry – 1999
This lesson plan imagines the student as part of a delegation to a special meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)-sponsored Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council being held in Brussels, Belgium, where the topic of discussion is a proposal by several NATO members to invite independent republics of the former Soviet Union to become…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Curriculum Enrichment, Foreign Countries, Grade 10
Fix, Terrance – 1999
In this lesson, students role-play as members of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia that will bring to trial "Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law." Students represent the following groups: International Criminal Tribunal; Prosecution; Defense; Serbians; Croatians;…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Area Studies, Cooperative Learning, Foreign Countries
Antilla, Madeline; DeMonet, J. – 1999
In this lesson, students work as marketing teams hired by a U.S. fast food company to study the feasibility of selling fast food in Latin America. Teams are composed of cultural, production, marketing, and advertising experts. Each marketing team will investigate a product and a Latin American country. Teams will present their research and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Area Studies, Business, Cooperative Learning
Milbury, Peter – 1999
This lesson plan asks students to be staff members of a classroom newspaper that is developing a series of articles on the Holocaust. Students work in small groups to research, and eventually report on, a particular topic concerning the Holocaust. The series of articles will work as a whole to refute the arguments of those who deny the existence…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Cooperative Learning, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Enrichment
Antilla, Madeline – 1999
On June 28, 1914, while visiting Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, was assassinated. The Austrian government blamed Serbia for harboring terrorists and sent the Serbian government an ultimatum with which that country found it impossible to comply. This set in motion a series of…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Curriculum Enrichment, European History, Foreign Countries
Davis, William – 1999
In the past 50 years many political organizations have attempted to seek redress from repressive governments. Many have used methods considered to be terrorism. The United Nations (UN) is interested in establishing a set of guidelines dealing with the prevention of terrorism. This unit focuses on several questions that attempt to define terrorism.…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Government Role, Grade 10, High Schools
Benoit, Bob – 1999
In this lesson plan, each student acts as a Member of Parliament (MP) in England in 1832 who must analyze the effects of what some people are referring to as the "Industrial Revolution." Students will write a bill, write a speech, and participate in debates. Students are provided with background information, detailed instructions, online…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Curriculum Enrichment, Debate, Economics
Davis, W. J. – 1999
In this unit, students prepare a report on China, specifically on the relevance of key events in China's recent history (The Communist Revolution, The Great Leap Forward, The Cultural Revolution, Tiananmen Square) to its current economic and political changes. Students assume the role of presidential advisors who are expected to know the present…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Economics, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society)
Niles, Georgette Wilbur – 1999
This problem-based learning unit asks students to assume roles as experts from countries that participated in World War I. These experts will meet both in expert groups and with their respective country representatives to determine what terms, in four specific areas, should be included in the treaty that will formally end the war. Next, they must…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, European History, Foreign Countries, Grade 10
Durbin, Dennis – 1999
This lesson plan sets up a scenario that involves lost, declassified military documents concerning a program begun in 1945 that placed 1,000 men and women in stasis (they were called "sleepers") deep within mine shafts in the mountains of Utah. The program was to provide, in the event of an overthrow of the U.S. government, a means to…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Communism, Cooperative Learning, Curriculum Enrichment
Westphal, Leanne – 1999
In this lesson, students work in teams, role-playing a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life in rural Africa. Teams focus on four goals: (1) grow more food; (2) develop water resources; (3) improve health services; and (4) protect the environment. Each student team is assigned to one of five regions in Africa. Teams…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Agriculture, Area Studies, Community Health Services
