An Infamous Day
(View Complete Item Description)A possible way to use these sources: * Build Ford Island using a large sheet, with battleships placed in battleship row formation. * Write casualty statistics under each cardboard ship or airplane to generate discussion after the activity. Possible Lesson Process: * 5 paper planes per student * Student sit around the map * Primary source/eyewitness accounts given to students: A narrator of Timeline events; multiple readers for eyewitness accounts * Students are prompted to 'get into position' (on knees) ready for the first wave of attack. * At a signal, in correlation to the narrative - students are signaled to throw 3 of their planes on the island. * The narration of timeline and eye witness accounts continue. * Students are prompted to stand up, be ready for second wave of attack. * Students are signaled to throw the last couple paper planes. * Wrap up with final narrative of timeline, statistic investigation, and listening to FDR's 'Day in Infamy' speech.
Material Type: Activity/Lab