The Cuban Missile Crisis

1. The Cuban Missile Crisis David Apfelbaum

2. Methodology Constructivism • Allows students’ to construct own meanings • Puts more emphasis on the high order thinking skills in Bloom’s Taxonomy • Works with my skills and beliefs as a teacher because there is more room to grow as a learner and allows the teacher to mold the way the information is presented to fit the needs of students

3. Multiple Intelligences • Focus is on visual, auditory, and interpersonal learners. • Other intelligences can be touched on (kinesthetic and logical) • Impossible to focus on all learners, but many intelligences can be taught in a single lesson

4. Bloom’s Taxonomy • Students in Social Studies classes typically will focus on the lower order thinking • Remembering and Understanding • I would like to focus on the higher order of thinking • Analyzing, Evaluating, and Creating • The PA standards I am focusing on meet these needs (8.3.U.C. and 8.4.W.C)

5. On to the Presentation…

6. Videos • April 21, 2011“JFK50 – His Finest Hour” • September 2008“Sergei Khrushchev on the Cuban Missile Crisis” • http://www.cubanmissilecrisis.org/for-educators/video-resources/

7. Describe the events that lead up to the Cuban Missile Crisis?

8. What were the main differences between the United States and Communism

9. How did President Kennedy react to the missiles in Cuba?

10. After the blockade, how the United States react? How did the Soviet Union react?What kind of deal was made?

11. How did the deal change the world in the 1960’s? Post Cold War?

12. What would YOU have done differently?

13. Kennedy • Kennedy’s address to the nation. • http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jfkcubanmissilecrisis.html