National History Day in Wisconsin: What you need to know! National History Day's 2018 Theme Every year National History Day frames students' research within a historical theme. The theme is chosen for its broad application to world, national or state history. Building Guided Inquiry Teams for 21st-Century Learners School Library Monthly/Volume XXVI, Number 5/January 2010 Building Guided Inquiry Teams for 21st-Century Learners by Carol C. Kuhlthau and Leslie K. Maniotes Carol C. Reagan and the Fall of the Berlin Wall For years, it has been the fashion in many ideological precincts to argue the collapse of the Soviet Union -- at more or less the moment it disintegrated -- was due almost entirely to Communism's structural weaknesses, and not to anything the West may have done to hasten its demise. In this view, while the two factions may have been at war for decades, the final result was not victory for one side so much as abdication by the other. This misreading of history unfortunately is motivated most often by a desire to avoid giving President Reagan the credit he deserves for being one of the few Western leaders (Prime Minister Thatcher being a notable exception) to properly understand not just the weaknesses of the Communist system, but also how they could be exploited to hasten the demise of the Soviet Union and bring freedom to millions around the world.
Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions This process explicitly validates all students’ intellectual abilities.– High School History Teacher, New York The reasons behind their questions often bowl me over with their sincerity, the fact that [they] really want to know the answers because it’s important to them, or they feel it would be important for others to know.– 4th Grade Teacher, Chicago The ability to produce questions, improve questions and prioritize questions may be one of the most important—yet too often overlooked—skills that a student can acquire in their formal education. Strong critical thinking is often grounded in the questions we ask. By deliberately teaching questioning skills, we will be facilitating a process that will help students develop a mental muscle necessary for deeper learning, creativity and innovation, analysis, and problem solving. Join the Movement: Make Question Formulation a part of Every Child’s EducationGet Involved »
Reagan challenges Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall - Jun 12, 1987 Also on this day Lead Story On this day in 1987, in one of his most famous Cold War speeches, President Ronald Reagan challenges Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down” the Berlin Wall, a symbol of the repressive Communist era in a divided Germany. In 1945, following Germany’s defeat in World War II, the nation’s capital,... Inquiry Charts (I-Charts) Classroom Strategies Background The Inquiry Chart (I-Chart) is a strategy that enables students to generate meaningful questions about a topic and organize their writing. Students integrate prior knowledge or thoughts about the topic with additional information found in several sources.
History Conflicts The Fall Of The Berlin Wall - History Conflicts The Berlin Wall The Berlin Wall was an obstacle that divided East Germany from West Germany between 1961 and 1989, it was raised by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961. It completely separated (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until it was demolished in November 1989. Its destruction officially began on the 13th of June 1990 and was finished in 1992. The establishment was also comprised of guard towers situated along large concrete walls, which marked a wide area which was later known as the “death strip” that contained anti-vehicle trenches, “fakir beds” and other defensive structures.
Gr 5-8 Research Guide: Introduction and Skills Menu About the Guided Inquiry research process: There are many different ways to approach research, but research is often easiest if you use a model with specific steps that can be applied to any topic you might choose. For middle school students, Baltimore County Public Schools has selected the Guided Inquiry Research Process Model. The Khrushchev Connection: Who Ordered the Construction of the Berlin Wall? They met in Stalingrad, where they fought on the same side in 1942. One of them, the son of a miner from Ukraine, organized the city's defenses against the German Wehrmacht forces, while the other, a German exile, used a bullhorn to encourage infantrymen to change sides. This much is certain, and it is also certain that the two men -- the impulsive Kremlin dictator Nikita Khrushchev and the calculating founder of the German Democratic Republic, Walter Ulbricht -- were never overly fond of each other.
BCPS Grade 6 Reading Research Portal Copyright 2014, Baltimore County Public Schools, all rights reserved. Created under the direction of the BCPS Office of Digital Learning in collaboration with the BCPS Office of Secondary English Language Arts by Kelly Ray, Resource Teacher - Office of Digital Learning and Anna Conner, Jeff Flynn, and Alexis Mazur, Library Media Specialists. All Guided Inquiry Design icons, language, and resources are used with permission of the authors: Kuhlthau, Carol C., Leslie .K. Maniotes, and Ann K. Caspari. 2012.
History of the Berlin Wall: Why the Wall was built up Until 1961 East German citizen were allowed to travel to West Berlin. Travelling to West Germany became difficult after closing the border between East and West Germany in 1952. The Wall was erected in 1961 because more than 2.6 million East Germans escaped to West Berlin or West Germany from 1949 to 1961 (total population of East Germany was about 17 million!). The life in the West was much better than in the East after 1948. West Germany including West Berlin had got financial help through the Marshallplan from the USA.