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World Leaders Lesson Plans
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- Be a Good Leader - Students will understand what are expected characteristics of a good leader.
- Choosing Presidents- This purpose of this lesson is to help fifth grade students explore the concept of what makes a person a good leader.
- Cultural Icons: Voices of their Nations - This lesson links geography with world issues of the 20th and 21st centuries by identifying cultural leaders or icons from around the world who have impacted the social, political, or environmental views of their countries.
- Follow the Leader! - Orwell shows how leaders and followers in a society can act in ways that destroy freedom and equality. Students choose a leader and a follower from Animal Farm and write an essay explaining how the behavior of each contributes to the loss of freedom and equality.
- Francisco Pizarro - Students will research the accomplishments of Hernen Cortes and the characteristics of effective leaders.
- Holding Leaders Responsible- Students will be able to process a variety of information on the Nuremberg Trials, including the charges brought against the defendants. They will then answer short-answer questions on the topics discussed in class.
- How Storytellers affect a culture- The students will create a story and select someone to be their skald or perform the story in a group.
- Human Rights- During a study of Eleanor Roosevelt, the class examines The United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights in order to gain an understanding of the document and to create a list of rights for the classroom.
- Independent: To Be or Not Top Be - In this lesson, national symbols of freedom and speech strategies are introduced, tokens are distributed, and the unit diagnostic is administered.
- Interviewing Famous Leaders in History- Students research a famous leader and then assume the role of interviewer and responder as they compose a question-and-answer interview with that leader.
- Metalling in Around the World- Students learn the important leaders in different cultures by researching coinage. Through this process, they also recognize the cultural universality on coinage and currency.
- New Nation- Students have a chance to create and develop their own nations or islands, and make decisions about finance, economy, defense, and even the flags.
- Organization of Nations Project- This lesson is a research project that teaches different viewpoints on current world issues. Each student researches a different country, becomes its ambassador and represents its interests in classroom debates with other countries on current issues.
- Politics and Leadership - Students will research a selected leader, focusing on the great thinkers who influenced that individual; write an essay exploring the relationship between leaders and great thinkers; and apply this idea to contemporary leaders.
- Rejection of the League of Nations- Students will be able to process a variety of information on the reasons for the U.S.'s rejection of the League of Nations. They will be asked to discuss the material, as well as completing a set of questions on the subject.
- Take My Word for It- Students take a summative assessment, then begin researching and organizing information for an oral presentation on significant leaders in history.
- Was Alexander Truly Great?- Students will be able to process a variety of information on Alexander the Great in order to determine whether he was truly a great leader.
- What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader?- Discuss how Washington responded to the difficulties he faced as the leader of the Continental Army.
