Digital Unit Plan Template Unit Title: The Beginning of the Great War Content Area: History
CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s): 10.5 Students analyze the causes and course of the First World War. Big Ideas: The Alliance System: The Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria, and Italy) and the Triple Entente (Russia, France, and Britain) The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Nationalism Changing Warfare: New Weapons, Trench Warfare, Total War Battle Front vs. Home Front Unit Goals and Objectives: Students will be able to identify which countries were members of the Triple Alliance and Triple Entente and which countries were neutral at the beginning of WWI. Students will be able to define total war and give at least three examples of how it applies to WWI. Students will compare and contrast the different experiences of soldiers and people on the home front during WWI. Students will analyze the technological innovations of the war and their impact on soldiers in the field.
Name: Jennifer Heilbrun Grade Level: 10th
Unit Summary: This unit will focus primarily on the causes and early years of World War I. We will analyze the system of alliances that contributed to the entrance of various countries into the war. We will also explore the effects of total war on both the soldiers in the trenches and the civilians on the home front. Students will determine which technological advances had the greatest impact on the war and what tools were most essential to a soldiers s urvival in the trenches. Assessment Plan: Entry-Level: Brainstorm: What do you know about politics and society in Europe in the early 1900s? What do you know about their military capabilities? Formative: Discussion: What factors contributed to making Europe a powder keg waiting to explode into war? Simulation: Austria declares war on Serbia; what would your assigned country do (Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia)? Ranking: WWI innovationswhich contributed most to the evolution of total war? Graphic Organizer: Backpack graphic for students to simulate packing like a WWI Summative: Wrap Up Questions/Quiz: Causes of World War I Project: Journal/Scrapbook depicting the life of a soldier or civilian during WWI
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Lesson 1 Student Learning Objective: Students will be able to describe the events leading to the outbreak of WWI. Students will be able to identify which countries were members of the Triple Alliance and Triple Entente and which countries were neutral at the beginning of WWI. Lesson 2 Student Learning Objective: Students will compare and contrast the different experiences of soldiers and people on the home front during WWI. Lesson 3 Student Learning Objective: Students will analyze the technological innovations of the war and their impact on soldiers in the field. Acceptable Evidence: Participation in class discussion Completion of Country Prediction worksheets Participation in wrap up/review activity Instructional Strategies: Communication Collection Collaboration Presentation Organization Interaction
Lesson Activities: Teacher lecture Guided notes Partner discussion Class discussion Country Prediction worksheet group activity Wrap up/review activity
Acceptable Evidence: Webquest assignment
Instructional Strategies: Communication Collection Collaboration Presentation Organization Interaction
Lesson Activities: Webquest activity Timeline questions Exploring daily life of soldier or civilian Response to an article Discuss results of webquest with student who explored the opposite experience of the war
Acceptable Evidence: Ranking activity Graphic organizer
Instructional Strategies: Communication Collection Collaboration Presentation Organization Interaction
Lesson Activities: Technological innovation ranking activity Watch video on WWI soldiers packing their haversacks Graphic organizer simulating a haversack/backpack
Unit Resources:
World War I Firsts Videoembedded on Unit Resources page Animated Map of Start of World War I--http://www.the-map-as-history.com/demos/tome06/ Its a Long Way to Tipperary--http://www.firstworldwar.com/audio/John_McCormack_-_It's_A_Long_Way_To_Tipperary.mp3 BBC World War I Website for Webquest--http://bbc.co.uk/schools/worldwarone/ World War I Soldiers Learn to Pack Videoembedded on Unit Resources page
Useful Websites:
BBC World War I Website--http://bbc.co.uk/schools/worldwarone/ Photo Gallery of World War I Leaders--http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/photos#world-war-i-leaders Multimedia Sources (propaganda posters, songs, videos, etc.)http://www.firstworldwar.com World War I Document Collection--http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page
