U.S. History 4
U.S. History, Book 4, requires high school students to process information in order to understand continuity and change in our nation’s history. Materials are designed to help students to understand the relationship between unit themes and concepts. Five sections focus on specialized topics covering the period 1960-1990. Part 1 deals with the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Part 2 shows the impact of the Vietnam experience on America. Part 3 illustrates the reevaluation of beliefs necessitated by Watergate. Part 4 examines the Carter and Reagan administrations. Part 5 investigates the complex issues affecting our future.
Lessons are not designed to accompany a specific textbook; they supplement your U.S. history curriculum and text book.
About the Series:
Social Studies curriculum units contain complete lesson plans with preliminary and follow-up work, teacher notes with background and rationale, ready-to-use worksheets, and suggested answers for student questions. These materials encourage the development of thinking , reading, speaking, research, and writing skills as well as critical thinking skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
Price: $39.95
Student Activities
The activities are interesting, developmental, skill-related, and promote critical thinking. Students read excerpts from primary sources, write essays and paragraphs, draw inferences, form opinions, detect cause and effect relationships, and interpret maps, charts, graphs, and cartoons. They also examine the work of investigative journalists of the 1960s and 1970s, compare campaign promises with presidential accomplishments, create a model that contrasts demand-side and supply-side economics, and conduct a survey about problems in education.
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