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Lesson Overview

The teacher will have the students split into 4 group to learn about the background information about pearl harbor from multiple sources. One group will use the National Geographics Book “Remember Pearl Harbor”. One group will use this website: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/pearl2.htm which gives an idea of the Japanese view on Pearl Harbor. One group can use http://www.history.com/topics/pearl-harbor/videos#attack-pearl-harbor which has multiple video’s on the attack of pearl harbor. And the last group can use http://www.pearlharborhistoricsites.org/ which has many different links to information about Pearl Harbor. After researching the topic using their individual source they will make a visual prompt to share what they’ve learned with the rest of the class.

 

Preparation (materials/resources needed, prior knowledge)

•  Variety of Art supplies, poster, markers, glue, string, colored pencils, paper etc.

•  The book and the website links for the articles.

•  Organizers for notes

 

Instruction

1. After talking to your class about the basics of Pearl Harbor introduce a group research project about the historical event.

2. Have the children split into 4 equal groups (switch the group around if you feel necessary)

3. Hand out their sources along with a notetaking guide for the group to keep track of their thoughts.

4. Give the groups about a half hour to do their initial research.

5. The next day have them get into their groups again and plan and start creating an artist way to show the rest of the class their findings. Allow them to look back at their research, article and notes.

6. Give examples of art they could do; such as interactive posters, illustrating their own picture book or comic strip, collage….

7. Give them about 45 minutes to work on this!

8. The next day have them work on and finish their artistic representation

9. The final day have each group present their findings and artwork to the class so that hopefully all students understand more about Pearl Harbor and multiple sides to the story.

 

Standards

History Standards

1. 8.1.4.B: Distinguish between fact and opinion from multiple points of view, and primary sources as related to historical events

2. 8.4.4.D: Distinguish between conflict and cooperation among groups and organizations that impacted development of the history of the world.

3. 1.6.4.B: Demonstrate awareness of audience using appropriate volume and clarity in formal speaking presentations.

4. R4.A.1.3.1: Make inferences and/or draw conclusions based on information from text.

5. R4.A.2.5.1: Summarize the major points, processes and/or events of a nonfictional text as a whole.