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April 5, 2011
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Today’s Agenda
8:00 – 8:15 Arrival, Breakfast, & Check-in
8:15 – 8:55 Introductions and Resource Share:
Student Polls on Controversial Subjects
Kara Gleason, Project Director
9:00 – 11:30 "The Decision to Drop the Bombs and the
With break End of WWII: The Challenges of Teaching
Controversial Subjects"
Professor Patrick Maney, Boston College
11:30–12:10 Lunch
12:15 – 2:15 Strategies for Teaching Controversial
Issues: The Decision to Drop the Atomic
Bombs
Professor Patricia Fontaine, University of
Massachusetts Lowell
2:15 – 2:30 Connections to Standards & Closing
Wiki Discussion Forum
Connections to MA History and Social
Science Curriculum Frameworks
USII.15 Analyze how German aggression in
Europe and Japanese aggression in Asia
contributed to the start of World War II and
summarize the major battles and events of
the war.
USII.16 Explain the reasons for the dropping
of atom bombs on Japan and their short and
long-term effects.
Connections to Standards in Historical Thinking
http://nchs.ucla.edu/standards/thinking5-12.html
http://poll.fm/2vpn5 http://poll.fm/2vpq7
Gallup Poll
Gallup Poll
Survey Methods:
“Results are based on telephone interviews with 1,010 national
adults, aged 18 and older, conducted July 25-28, 2005. For
results based on the total sample of national adults, one can
say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling
error is ±3 percentage points.”
Creating a Survey with Survey Monkey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/TakeATour.aspx
Poll Daddy and Survey Monkey
How-To
Available at:
http://historyconnected.wikispaces.com/TechnologyYearTwo