Cold War and Vietnam

Students review Nixon's time in office as president by making a 20 item timeline. The timeline incorporates political cartoons, news articles, maps, social media posts, news headlines, and academic summaries (each element has specific requirements...

Students will review key events and people related to the Vietnam War by completing a cloze passage, reading three pages and answering 10 questions, matching 12 terms to their identifications, completing 2 point of view creative tasks, and by labeling 20...

Students will review the events, divisions, political geography, physical geography, and more of Cold War by working with 4 maps and answering 6 questions. There are 60 labels and tasks across the maps. This would be great for a sub! The answers are...

Students will learn about, or review, at least 3 of the Cold War's hot spots by with these 3 projects (a one pager with 12 requirements, a set of 4 trading cards, and a cube). Templates, instructions, a points distribution, and 24 starting point topics...

Students will learn about, or review, JFK's presidency by completing 11 activities. The primary source analysis resources are for his Inaugural Address, To the Moon, and Civil Rights speeches. The other resources include a gallery walk (or power point)...

Students learn about the American Space Program and NASA's explorations and achievements in this mini lesson. They read 5 paragraphs, answer 19 questions, and complete a graphic organizer. This covers the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs, as well as...

Students will complete a 3 part activity to review the presidency of Jimmy Carter. The first part has 5 questions to help students review factual parts of his time in office. In the second part of the activity students "interview" Carter immediately...

Students complete an interview activity to review Harry Truman's presidency. They first answer 5 history based questions, then they "interview" Truman after becoming president (5 questions and answers), and then they conduct his last interview prior to...

Students complete an interview activity to review LBJ's presidency. They first answer 6 history based questions, then they "interview" Johnson after becoming president (5 questions and answers), and then they conduct his last interview prior to his death...

Students complete an interview activity to review Dwight Eisenhower's presidency. They first answer 5 history based questions, then they "interview" Eisenhower after becoming president (5 questions and answers), and then they conduct Ike's last interview...

Students complete an interview activity to review JFK's presidency. They first answer 5 history based questions, then they "interview" John F. Kennedy after becoming president (6 questions and answers), and then they conduct JFK's last interview prior to...

Students get an overview of of JFK's presidency with this power point or gallery walk (or even group packet!) with comprehension tasks. There are 31 slides of information and pictures and 28 questions and creative tasks for students to respond to. A...