Germany In Focus
Germany In Focus
Germany In Focus: Instructional Strategies for Secondary Educators is designed to provide secondary and middle school social studies teachers with comprehensive lessons on Germany - historical and contemporary - that can be easily integrated into preexisting curricula in world history, geography, comparative government, economics, and sustainability.
The book is organized into seven sections or foci: Geography, Society, History, Reunification, Political System, Economy, and Sustainability. Each section begins with excerpts from interviews with a diverse group of Germans which relate to the focus topic. Teachers may use these as stimuli to pique student interest in the focus topic. The lesson organization consists of a focus question(s) to guide instruction. Each lesson is correlated to the revised National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and Common Core Standards and includes a lesson overview which summarizes the objective of the lesson, pertinent teacher background information, a suggested time frame, instructional resources (located on the accompanying Instructional Resource Disc), and a detailed lesson procedure. In addition, there is a whole group reflection, which reconnects students with the focus question(s), lesson modifications and extensions.
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Lesson 1.1: Geography of Germany
Handouts 1.1
Lesson 1.2: Geography & FIFA World Cup Soccer
Lesson 1.3: Germany: A Member of the European Union
Handouts 1.3
Lesson 1.4: German Military & International Peacekeeping
Handouts 1.4
Lesson 1.5: Four American Presidents and the Berlin Wall
Handouts 1.5
Lesson 2.1: Immigration and Demographic Diversity
Handouts 2.1
Lesson 2.2: Religion in a Pluralistic Society
Handouts 2.2
Lesson 2.3: Women in German Society
Handouts 2.3
Lesson 2.4: German Education System
Handouts 2.4
Lesson 2.5: Youth in Germany
Handouts 2.5
Lesson 2.6: German Words in the English Language
Handouts 2.6
Lesson 3.1: The Brandenburg Gate as a Witness to History
Handouts 3.1
Lesson 3.2: Collective Memory: Memorials and Monuments
Handouts 3.2
Lesson 3.3: Schwarzfahrer: A Case Study in Human Rights
Handouts 3.3
Lesson 3.4: Studying the Holocaust in Germany
Handouts 3.4
Lesson 3.5: November 9 in History: Why Not a Holiday?
Handouts 3.5
Lesson 3.6: Germans Who Have Contributed to Civilization
Handouts 3.6
Lesson 4.1: Post World War II/Cold War Timeline
Handouts 4.1
Lesson 4.2: Peaceful Revolution in Leipzig 1989
Handouts 4.2
Lesson 4.3: Ostalgie — Remembering Life in the GDR
Handouts 4.3
Lesson 4.4: The Stasi and Espionage in the GDR
Handouts 4.4
Lesson 5.1: German Post-Reunification Timeline
Handouts 5.1
Lesson 5.2: National Identity and National Symbols
Handouts 5.2
Lesson 5.3: Germany’s Multiparty Political System
Handouts 5.3
Lesson 5.4: Comparative Study of the Political Systems
Handouts 5.4