Name of Lesson: World War II

Length of Lesson: 50 minutes

Content Standards:
USH.5.4 — Identify key leaders and events from World War II and explain the
significance of each.

Content Vocabulary:
● Allies → Those countries fighting against the Axis powers. i.e. Britain, France,
USA, Canada, USSR etc
● Axis Powers → Japan, Germany and Italy
● Holocaust → The mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime
● Pearl Harbor → A surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air
Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in
Honolulu

Identity/ Intellect
- For this lesson, students will need to examine their own ethos and morals.
What makes a decision good, and what makes a decision morally wrong?
Students will need to examine how their morals and identities affect their
day-to-day decisions.

Criticality/Skills
- Students will need to think critically about the moral dilemma of the Hiroshima
bombing. In addition, students will learn how to make an engaging poster that
sets out to persuade an individual for or against conflict in the name of ending
conflict.
Enduring Understandings/Learning Goals:
Students will understand that…
- People respond to and resolve conflicts in a variety of ways
- Wars in the past have had a long-lasting impact on how countries approach the
future.
Essential Questions:
Students will keep considering…
- Who is most impacted by wars?
- In what ways do wars from the past affect our day-to-day lives?
- Is conflict inevitable? desirable? avoidable?
Student Objectives:
Students will be able to…
- Identify the key leaders and key events from World War II
- Argue for or against the bombing of Hiroshima.

Evidence of Learning
Performance Tasks
Students will show their learning by…
- Creating their own posters
- identifying two new things they learned in the exit ticket.

Materials

- Regular Paper
- Pen, pencils (any writing utensil)
- Poster Paper
- Crayons, color pencils, markers, etc
Agenda/ Activities:
❖ Bell Ringer/ Do Now [5 minutes]
On a sheet of paper, have students answer the following:
- Is war sometimes necessary?
- After a war, what should happen to the losing country?

❖ Lecture (present slide presentation) [20 minutes]

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRJcLyZH8YY6P0jGBIBiObLcnovF
Sx97sowj0dh_G_BC0zc_OPEtLq7ET7Oo4zWYKFe9oqOSPZiJGye/pub?start=true&l
oop=true&delayms=5000
content vocabulary (2 minutes), video (5 minutes), Other components of the slides (13
minutes)
❖ Activity [15 minutes]
Have students create a poster advocating for or against the bombing of Hiroshima,
Japapn.
- Posters should include: Colors, a picture, a heading or a catchphrase, and
reasoning for or against the decision

❖ Exit Ticket [5 minutes]

- On the same paper for the Do Now:
Have students identify two things that they learned.

Reflection/Closure
[5 minutes]
- Review the definitions
- Clarify any questions
- Have a couple students share one thing that they learned.