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Titan II Missile Launch
A nuclear explosion
Introduction
In this lesson, students are introduced to the concepts of strategic deterrence and mutually assured destruction and the roles they played during the Cold War. Students are exposed to the feelings, attitudes, and political issues prevalent during the years of the nuclear weapons race. Students will engage in role playing to encourage empathy with people of that era. Ultimately, students will create a web or powerpoint presentation describing the major events, and their geopolitical consequences, of the Cold War.
Subject: Naval Science Three
Topic: National Security
Grade Level: 11
Student Lesson name and URL: ctap295.ctaponline.org/~kexum/student/
Standards
Addressed
Chief of Naval Education and Training Curriculum Objectives for Naval Science Three
1) Describe the tactics of strategic deterrence.
This lesson also partially addresses the
State
of California History & Social Science Standards (http://www.cde.ca.gov/board/pdf/history.pdf)
Standard 11.9.3 - Trace the origins
and geopolitical consequences (foreign and domestic) of the Cold War and
containment policy including the following:
Instructional
Objectives
1.1 Students will be
able to chronologically list the events of the Cold War.
1.2 Students will be
able to list foreign and domestic geopolitical consequences of the the
Cold War.
Student
Activities
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Assessment
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Results
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Web
Resources & Supplementary Materials
Introductory Activity
CNN's
Cold
War site on the Titan Missile Museum in near Tucson, Arizona
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/experience/the.bomb/route/05.titan/
Titan
II ICBM Web Page http://www.teleport.com/~boelling/titan.html
A personal site
dedicated to the Titan II ICBM. Lot's of great information and links.
President Kennedy's on the Cuban Missile Crisis
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/activities/nationsvoice/realaudio/28-8/jfk.ram
Enabling Activity
Search Engine: www.dogpile.com
Discovery's Eisehnower and the Cold War http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/eisenhower-coldwar/index.html
Brief Discovery article about the Cuban Missile Crisis http://school.discovery.com/students/homeworkhelp/worldbook/atozhistory/c/142840.html
Great site based on CNN's Cold
War mini-series
http://turnerlearning.com../cnn/coldwar/cw_start.html
Articles on Nuclear Deterence from the Nuclear Files Archive
http://www.nuclearfiles.org/docs/n-deterrence.html
Online Quiz on the Cold War at the Nuclear Files Archive
http://www.nuclearfiles.org/quiz/qcw1.html
The Nuclear Files Project of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
http://www.nuclearfiles.org/index.html
Culminating Activity
Everett Alvarez High School
1900 Independence Blvd.
Salinas, CA 93906
Kenneth J. Exum kexum@salinas.k12.ca.us
Last Revised: 06/29/2000