Key Events of World War I - Common Core Lessons & Activities

Key Events of World War I - Common Core Lessons & Activities

<b>How to Use this Book:</b><br /> Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations. <br /> Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills. <br /> Include technology, collaboration, presentation, and discussion in the activities as you desire you can decide how in-depth to go. <br /> Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes! <br /><br />The <b>Key Events of World War I - Common Core Lessons and Activities</b> is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing, inference, text-dependent questions, and more into your daily instruction.<br /><br />How to Use The <b>Key Events of World War I - Common Core Lessons and Activities</b> book: <br /> Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations. <br /> Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice These new skills. <br /> Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go. <br /> Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes! <br /><br />Tips: <br /> Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs. <br /> Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5" X 11", enlarge it to 125% on your copy machine. <br /> Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson. The <b>Key Events of World War I - Common Core Lessons and Activities</b> book includes: <br /> Reading for Information<br /> Higher-Order Thinking<br /> Writing Problems<br /> Primary Source Analysis<br /> Vocabulary<br /> Graphic Organizers<br /> Map Activities<br /> And More! <br /><br />The Table of Contents for the <b>Key Events of World War I Common Core Lessons and Activities</b> include: <br /><b>Archduke Franz Ferdinand: </b> Reading Informational Text<br /><b>Leaders of World War I: </b> Graphic Organizer G <br /><b>Allied and Central Powers: </b> Map Activity<br /><b>World War I Vocabulary: </b>Vocabulary GO10<br /><b>Sinking of the Lusitania: </b> Primary Source Analysis<br /><b>Trench Warfare: </b>Reading Informational Text<br /><b>Life in the Trenches: </b> Primary Source Analysis<br /><b>Zimmermann Telegram: </b> Problem Solution Results GO9<br /><b>I Want YOU for U.S. Army: </b> Primary Source Analysis<br /><b>New Technologies in WWI: </b> Cause and Effect GO6<br /><b>Christmas Truce: </b> Primary Source Analysis<br /><b>Important Battles of WWI: </b> Reading Informational Text<br /><b>Food Will Win the War: </b> Primary Source Analysis<br /><b>Gas Mask: </b> Primary Source Analysis and Writing<br /><b>Key Events of World War I: </b> Chronological Events GO12<br /><b>Fourteen Points: </b> Reading Informational Text<br /><b>Europe During and After WWI: </b> Compare and Contrast<br /><b>Treaty of Versailles: </b> Reading Informational Text<br /><b>Effects of WWI on the United States: </b> Cause and Effect GO6<br /><b>Common Core Correlations</b><br /><b>GO: Graphic Organizers