Stage 1 – Discovery
Discover the key people, events and vocabulary of the early Cold War by completing the tasks in Cold War time line & key terms (Nov 2018)
You may like to use this timeline application to create your timeline of events.
In groups discover information from the 12 resources below. Use the headings in Causes of the Cold War to organize your discoveries.
For each slide heading you must:
1. Note down the who, what, why, when & where. These will form your ‘discoveries’.
2. Attach your discoveries to the group learning board. Be sure to record the sources that you used.
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3. Find links between the stickies using the concepts of cause & consequence. You can do this manually or use the Inspiration file.
Causes of CW mind map – Inspiration
4. Generate twenty questions that you feel need answering.
5. Sort these questions into Googleable & non-Googleable.
Googleable questions – A simple factual answer that can be found easily via a search on Google.
Un-Googleable questions – More complex questions that cannot be answered easily. They require discussion or more detailed research.
6. Select one Googleable question for each person to research.
7. As a group select one un-Googleable questioned to research and answer together.
Stage 2. Define the problem
1. Divide your group into person A, person B & person C. Person A interviews person B about who was responsible for the Cold War for 4 minutes. Person C acts as a scribe – writing down everything said during the interview. Repeat this process three times so that each person is the interviewer, interviewee and scribe once.
2. Read through what was written and highlight the most important events and pieces of insight (deep understanding) e.g. The Berlin blockade showed an act of defiance by Stalin towards the USA.
3. As a group formulate a question that relates to the origins of the Cold War. Your question should include one of your main insights / key events. Phrase the question in one of the following ways:
How did……..?
To what extent was……..?
How might the USA/USSR………..?
Stage 3. Brainstorming
1. In your group list 100 answers to your question in four minutes.
2. Repeat the exercise again, this time by drawing your answers (pictures/diagrams). These answers must include new ideas.
3. Repeat again, this time basing your answers on the stimulus word given to you by your teacher.
Stage 4. Prototyping
1. Begin work on writing your essay.
Cold War exam task & rubric Nov 2018