Subject:
United States History II
Task Title:
The Korean War – A Time Line Activity
Objective(s), Performance Indicators, Essential Knowledge:
The student will be able to identify, describe, and label nine of the key
events and turning points of the Korean Conflict.
SOL(s):
USII.7c
C/T8.1 Student will communicate through application software.
C/T8.2 Student will communicate through networks and
telecommunication.
C/T8.4 Student will process and retrieve electronic information
Performance Assessments:
Completed student time line poster in which the student correctly organizes 14
historical events in chronological order.
Completed student notes based on PowerPoint presentation.
Completed student time line created on the Timeliner program.
Performance Task Procedures:
Introduction: Day 1
Teacher will introduce the topic by pointing out the relationship between the Cold War
between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. How this conflict spread to other portions of the
globe involving other nations in “hot” wars which the US and USSR sponsored.
Students complete the “K” and “W” portion of a K-W-L chart on the Korean War.
Teacher will present a PowerPoint on the Korean War as a concluding activity.
Students will turn in completed notes based on PowerPoint.
Day 2
Warm Up Question: Why did the Korean War begin and why is it considered part of the
Cold War?
Teacher will conduct class discussion with questions that review and reinforce previous
lesson.
Teacher will introduce poster activity to students. Working in pairs, students will create a
time line poster that includes fourteen events related to the war. Time line must be in
chronological order, contain a title, and an illustration. Student will include any citation
information in MLA simplified form.
Day 3
Warm Up Question: What is a “Police Action” and how did the U.N. participate at the
outset of the conflict?
Teacher led discussion reinforcing previous lesson.
Students will complete posters.
Class will complete “L” portion of K-W-L chart.
Day 4
Korean War Timeliner Project
Class will meet in C-Wing computer lab.
Teacher will distribute direction sheet to class and introduce activity.
Using Timeliner students will create a Korean War timeline. Their time line must
include all nine events listed on the direction sheet, contain a title, and have at least one
image or map within the document.
Assessment Criteria:
Rubric: Korean War Poster (opens with Internet browser)
Rubric: Timeliner Project (opens with Internet browser)
Resources and Materials:
K-W-L Chart: The Korean War (opens with Internet browser)
Poster sized paper.
Colored pencils/crayons.
PowerPoint Presentation: “The Cold War Turns Hot: The Korean War.”
Use of the computer lab for one period.
Timeliner instruction sheet. TimelineProject.DOC
MLA citation sheet
Internet Document Source Citations
MLA Style Citations for:
A. WWW site
1. author's name (if known)
2. document title, in quotes
3. complete title of work (if applicable, italicized or underlined)
4. publication date or last revision (if known)
5. WWW address (URL) in angle brackets
6. access date, in parenthesis
7. example:
Hill, Joe. "Using First Class for Intranet and Internet E-mail."
The E-mail System fo RCPS. http://wwwrockingham.k12.va.us/emailsyst.html
(28 May 1996).
B. E-mail message
1. author's name (if known)
2. author's e-mail address, in angle brackets
3subject line from posting, in quotes
4. date of posting
5. type of communication, ie personal e-mail, distribution list, etc
6. access date, in parenthesis
7. example:
Daniels, Bryan. [email protected]"First Class 3.5.1." 3 Nov. 1997.
Personal e-mail. (10 Nov. 1997)
C. Publications on CD-Rom, Diskette, or Magnetic Tapes
1. author's name, last name first
2. title of the article in quotation marks
3. title of publication in italics
4. any version or edition numbers
5. series name (if applicable)
6. software company
7. place published:
8. publisher
9. copyright date
10.. example:
Zieger, Herman E. "Aldehyde. Software Toolworks Multimedia Encyclopedia.
Vers. 1.5. Software Toolworkds. Boston: Grolier, 1992
adapted from http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite5.html#1