Middle School Group 1 Technology Plan

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Middle School Group 1Technology Plan

• Cold War Unit
• Arcadia Middle School
• Ashley Godshall, Regina Hastings and Timothy
  Belloff

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Cold War Technology Plan

• Instructional Level Middle School 7th or 8th
  Grade
• Curricular Focus The Cold War
• Lesson Plans Included
• Social Studies (3)
• English (2)
• English/Language Arts
• Art

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Lesson Plans with Included Technology
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Lesson Plan 1 Dropping the Bomb

• Opening Lesson Plan Dropping the Bomb by Ashley
  Godshall
• The lesson will highlight the importance of
  Trumans decision on dropping the atomic bomb.
• Technology Incorporated
• Using computers in a group for Web Quest
• http//www.geocities.com/ed568techplan1
• Typing responses to questions on a word document.
• E-mailing the assignment back to the instructor

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Lesson Plan 1 - Continued

• Lesson Plan and Samples

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Lesson Plan 2 1984

• English component for the unit on the Cold War by
  Ashley Godshall
• In this lesson students will read 1984 and
  analyze and comprehend what propaganda meant
  during the Cold War through the book.
• Technology Incorporated
• Overhead Computer Projector to show samples of
  propaganda
• Computer/Computer Lab with Word, Paint,
  Publisher, Adobe or any other program the
  students may use to create their own collage of
  propaganda.

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Lesson Plan 2 - Continued

• Lesson Plan and Samples

Examples of Nazi Propaganda for Students
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Lesson Plan 3 Iron Curtain

• Art Lesson Plan Interpreting Spoken Word by
  Timothy Belloff
• In this lesson students will listen to and read
  along with Winston Churchill as he gave his
  speech on the Iron Curtain coming across
  Europe. The students will be asked to represent
  his speech in an art medium of their choosing.
• Technology Incorporated
• Computer with speakers Listen to speech
• Mobile Computer Lab for students to look at
  following websites
• http//www.historyguide.org/europe/churchill.html
  
• http//www.radio.cz/en/article/76528

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Lesson Plan 3 - Continued

• Lesson Plan and Samples

Possible Cartoon Sample from Student
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Lesson Plan 4 Living in the Cold War

• Social Studies lesson on interviewing and talking
  to people who lived through the Cold War by
  Timothy Belloff
• In this lesson the students will review the Cold
  War by listening to guest speakers, watching a
  video and interviewing people that were alive
  during the Cold War.
• Technology Incorporated
• Video Camera to tape Guest Speakers
• Computer with projector to watch video from
  United Streaming website
• Audio recorders or computers with microphones to
  tape interviews with adults from the Cold War

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Lesson Plan 4 - Continued

• Lesson Plan and Samples

Guest Speakers Lt. Cmd. James Jamison and Mrs.
Natalie Taylor with our Principal.
What you may have seen growing up in the Cold War
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Lesson Plan 5 Communism vs. Democracy

• English lesson that compares Communism and
  Democracy by Regina Hastings
• In this lesson the students will analyze
  documentation about the two topics listed above.
• Technology Incorporated
• Mobile Computer Labs with access to the internet
  for research.
• Use of interactive white board to model the Venn
  Diagrams.

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Lesson Plan 5 - Continued

• Lesson Plan and Samples

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Lesson Plan 6 Cuban Missile Crisis

• Social Studies lesson plan on the Cuban Missile
  Crisis by Regina Hastings
• In this lesson the students will utilize previous
  knowledge from interviews and new information to
  analyze the events leading up to and following
  the Cuban Missile Crisis.
• Technology Incorporated
• Internet access to research the Cuban Missile
  Crisis and other events following the Crisis.
• Using Publisher to create timelines of the
  events.
• TV and Video player to show Thirteen Days.

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Lesson Plan 6 Continued

• Lesson Plans and Samples

Missile Sites in Cuba during the Crisis
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Example of the Timeline from Cuban Missile Crisis
Lesson Plan
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Lesson Plan 7 Song Analysis

• English/Language Arts lesson plan in which
  students will listen to songs related to the Cold
  War.
• Lesson done by Regina Hastings.
• In this lesson students will listen to songs that
  address the Cold War and try to analyze them.
  Students will also need to create a website of
  their own song analysis.
• This will be a culminating technology project for
  our Unit.
• Technology Incorporated
• Audio Player with songs.
• Computer Lab with the NVu program to create
  websites.
• Internet access to sample song analysis.
• http//www.geocities.com/phillyrelateacher/Gameswi
  thoutFrontiers.html

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Lesson Plan 7 - Continued

• Lesson Plan and Samples

Website with possible choices of songs from the
Cold War that students could choose.
http//www.inthe80s.com/coldwar.shtml
Sample website of Song Analysis