World History · Week 32 · The Cold War and the Contemporary World
Living Under the Nuclear Shadow
Students study how nuclear weapons and Cold War rivalry divided the world and practice calming strategies for facing big fears they cannot control.
- Students will
- Students explain how Yalta, Soviet control of Eastern Europe, nuclear weapons, and Cold War rivalry divided the world and analyze change and continuity in how people lived with fear.
- SEL skill
- Practice a calming strategy for a worry you cannot control
- What it looks like
- Students regulate emotions by practicing a calming strategy for fears they cannot control.
- Content focus
- Living under the nuclear shadow
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-management
Self-management is steering your feelings, thoughts, and actions in a way that helps you reach a goal. More self-management activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- 10.9.1: CA History Social Science Content Standard, Grade 10: World History, Culture, and Geography: The Modern World (standard 10.9, item 1)
- CA HSS Analysis Skill: CST1 Compare the present with the past, evaluating the consequences of past events and decisions and the activities learned. (Chronological and Spatial Thinking)
- C3 Framework (national): D2.His.2.9-12 Analyze change and continuity in historical eras.
- Literacy in history: RH.9-10.3 Analyze a series of events and determine whether earlier events caused later ones.
Fits these textbook chapters
- Modern World History, Cold War Conflicts
- History Alive! World Connections, Lesson 26: Era Overview: The Cold War and Beyond, 1945 to Present
- History Alive! World Connections, Lesson 27: The Cold War and the Third World
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- Resistance and Resilience Self-managementStudents learn how colonized peoples resisted through armed revolt, diplomacy, and keeping language and faith alive and identify sources of their own resilience.
- Sun Yat-sen and a New China Self-managementStudents examine how Sun Yat-sen built a movement to end imperial rule in China through years of setbacks and set a goal that keeps them going after a failure.
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