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Bertot, Donna L. – 1987
This high school unit of study on India's Mahatma Gandhi is designed to be used in courses of contemporary problems, government, and 20th century history. The unit contains a listing of the course objectives, needed resource materials, teaching strategies, and evaluation procedures. The course is taught over a 9-day period, and brief lesson plans…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, High Schools, Learning Modules, Modern History
Peer reviewedSchechter, William – OAH Magazine of History, 1985
In this lesson, high school students read quotes and relate them to events that took place in the 1960s. Provided are the quotes, discussion questions, and suggestions for class activities. (RM)
Descriptors: High Schools, History Instruction, Lesson Plans, Modern History
Bowles, William G.; Gump, James O. – 1998
This teaching unit represents a specific "dramatic moment" in history that can allow students to delve into the deeper meanings of selected landmark events and explore their wider context in the great historical narrative. Studying a crucial turning point in history helps students realize that history is an ongoing, open-ended process,…
Descriptors: African History, Cultural Context, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedEpstein, Terrie – OAH Magazine of History, 1985
This lesson plan for use with high school students presents excerpts from a press conference that President Eisenhower held in 1954 dealing with his domino theory and U.S. foreign policy concerning Indochina. In addition to the excerpts, discussion questions and ideas for student research projects are provided. (RM)
Descriptors: Foreign Policy, High Schools, History Instruction, International Relations
Tegnell, Geoffrey; Ladenburg, Thomas – Indiana Social Studies Quarterly, 1984
Described is a Yalta simulation and other units in a course designed to have high school students think through, from the perspective of participants and historians, important decisions made by Americans during the past 39 years. The course will prepare students to make intelligent decisions about political and social questions. (RM)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Foreign Policy
Peer reviewedEpstein, Terrie; Hursh, Heidi – OAH Magazine of History, 1985
As early as 1848, women organized into groups to assert their rights as citizens. In 1969, the National Organization for Women developed a Bill of Rights. The document is presented here, accompanied by learning activities, discussion and debate questions, and research topics for use with high school students. (RM)
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Females, Feminism, High Schools
Brown Univ., Providence, RI. Center for Foreign Policy Development. – 1994
This unit is part of a continuing series on current foreign policy issues. This unit draws students into a debate on Russia's identity. Unlike previous units of this series, this one is not written from the U.S. perspective. Rather, students are asked to see the world through Russian eyes and to contemplate Russian choices in the areas of economic…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Economic Development, European History, Foreign Countries
