Digital Unit Plan Template

Unit Title: Causes and Effects of WWII

Name: Kimberly Dang

Content Area: Social Studies

Grade Level: 10

CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):

10.8 Students analyze the causes and consequences of World War II.
1. Compare the German, Italian, and Japanese drives for empire in the 1930s, including the 1937 Rape of
Nanking, other atrocities in China, and the Stalin-Hitler Pact of 1939.
2. Understand the role of appeasement, nonintervention (isolationism), and the domestic distractions in
Europe and the United States prior to the outbreak of World War II.
3. Identify and locate the Allied and Axis powers on a map and discuss the major turning points of the
war, the principal theaters of conflict, key strategic decisions, and the resulting war conferences and
political resolutions, with emphasis on the importance of geographic factors.
4. Describe the political, diplomatic, and military leaders during the war (e.g., Winston Churchill, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, Emperor Hirohito, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Douglas MacArthur,
Dwight Eisenhower).
5. Analyze the Nazi policy of pursuing racial purity, especially against the European Jews; its
transformation into the Final Solution; and the Holocaust that resulted in the murder of six million
Jewish civilians.
6. Discuss the human costs of the war, with particular attention to the civilian and military losses in
Russia, Germany, Britain, the United States, China, and Japan.

Big Ideas:

Unit

How does leadership style impact society?

Why did people not speak up during the Holocaust?
How were peoples fates determined during the Holocaust?
How can threat of genocides be avoided?
Goals and Objectives:
At the end of the course, students will be able to identify and analyze foreign policy and the leadership
roles of each nations.
At the end of the course, students will be able to analyze the events that led to WWII and the
Holocaust.
At the end of the course, students will be able to understand the multiple ways freedoms were
restricted during World War II. Students will be about to defend their position about whether or not
freedoms should be restricted during times of war.

Unit Summary:
The students will learn about WWII and how the Holocaust had a huge impact on the world. This unit will
explore the causes of WWII, the effects of WWII, and the major events with an emphasis on the Holocaust.
Students will learn the impact of this war had on the world by several lessons. First, students will learn how
does leadership style of Hitler and other leaders impact society and WWII? Then the students will learned
about the holocaust and why did people not speak up during the Holocaust. Students will then go into depth
about peoples fates determined during the Holocaust. Finally, students will answer of question of how can
threat of genocides be avoided and what has the world learned from WWII?
Assessment Plan:

Entry-Level:
Students will discuss the effects of
WWII and the holocaust. The
instructor will go over the grading
rubric of the unit and the unit
research paper. Students write a
research paper about foreign
policy and the leadership roles of
each nations. The paper force the
students to look at all the lessons
learned in this unit to formulate a
compelling essay.

Lesson 1
Student
Learning
Objective:
At the end of the
course, students
will be able to
identify and
analyze foreign
policy and the
leadership roles of
each nations.

Formative:
As discussion continues with the
help of the presentation, students
will be asked questions as part of
participation points. The instructor
will provide a list of short essay
questions where students will work
individually to complete. Students
would then collaborate to share
their answers and present it to the
class. Student will go on WebQuest
to help them do research. There
will be quizzes in this section.

Acceptable
Evidence:
In students
essays, analysis of
the freedom and
freedom
restriction will be
presented with
students opinions.

Instructional
Strategies:

Communicatio
n
Collection

Collaboration

Presentation

Organization

Summative:
A discussion about what students
know about WWII and the
Holocaust will start the unit.
Instructor will ask students
questions during discussion.
Students will brainstorm together
and interact in groups on a project
to research and create a timeline
of WWII with focus on the
holocaust. Then each group will
present their timeline in front of
class with overall ideas that they
have learned from the project.

Lesson Activities:
Students write an essay about foreign policy and
the leadership roles of each nations. The essay
force the students to look at all the lessons
learned in this unit to formulate a compelling
essay.

 Interaction
Lesson 2
Student
Learning
Objective:
At the end of the
course, students
will be able to
understand the
multiple ways
freedoms were
restricted during
World War II.
Students will be
about to defend
their position
about whether or
not freedoms
should be
restricted during
times of war.
Lesson 3
Student
Learning
Objective:
At the end of the
course, students

Acceptable
Evidence:
Analysis of the
freedom and
freedom restriction
will be presented
with students
opinions.

Instructional
Strategies:

Communicatio
n
Collection

Collaboration

Presentation

Organization
Interaction

Lesson Activities:
The instructor will provide a list of short essay
questions where students will work individually
to complete. Students would then collaborate to
share their answers and share it to the class.
Student will go on WebQuest to help them do
research.

Acceptable
Evidence:
Timeline of major
events that
eventually led to

Instructional
Strategies:

Communicatio
n

Lesson Activities:
Students work together and interact in groups on
a project to research and create a timeline of
WWII with focus on the holocaust. Then each
group will present their work in front of class with

will be able to
the holocaust and
analyze the events the major events
that led to WWII
of WWII.
and the Holocaust.

Collection

Collaboration

Presentation

Organization
Interaction

Unit Resources:

http://www.livebinders.com/welcome/home

http://quizlet.com/subject/world-war-ii/

http://www.historysimulation.com/WorldWarII.html

Useful Websites:

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

www.ushmm.org/

History Place
www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/

Anne Frank Center in US

www.annefrank.org

Anne Frank Foundation

www.annefrankguide.net/

overall ideas that they have learned from the

project.

BBC World War II

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/