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Grade 11, United States History from 1877 to the Present Std 14.2: Tracing significant domestic policies and issues of presidential administrations from Richard Nixon to the present

Lesson Plans: American Presidents. (PBS) Teacher's Guide to The Presidents' Web site offers a range of activities and resources to help teachers integrate core themes, events, and ideas from the American presidency into the classroom. Richard M. Nixon Ronald Reagan George Herbert Walker Bush William Jefferson Clinton The Iranian Hostage Crisis. Lesson focuses on the events that unfolded during the Iranian hostage crisis, and the effect the crisis had on the presidency of Jimmy Carter and U.S. Iranian relations to the present. Living Vietnam Memorials: Exploring First-Hand Accounts of the Vietnam War, Both Overseas and At Home. Students examine the Vietnam War from first-hand accounts. Students examine New York Times journalist Malcolm W. Browne's account of the fall of Saigon, interview adults about their recollections and the impact of the Vietnam War, and create first-person narratives based on their interviews. Carter as President and Ex-President Camp David Accords. Internet based independent Virtual Tour of the World Wide Web to conduct research to analyze one of the high points of the Carter Presidency. The diplomatic efforts of the Carter administration brought about a peace accord between Egypt and Israel which is still working today Teaching With Documents Lesson Plan: Constitutional Issues - Watergate and the Constitution Counterculture Webquest. You are an FBI agent in 1969. You have been ordered by the President of the United States to investigate subversive activity. The President is making an "Enemies List" that includes people that don't conform to society. You have but one clue, a sheet of lyrics to a newly created Simon and Garfunkel song, A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara’d Into Submission) . It is your job to find out why both the subversive people and prominent politicians should be remembered for the parts they play in the 1960's. Watergate. Students discuss the primary events of the Watergate crisis; conduct an interview with a Watergate-era adult. America at the End of the Twentieth September 11th

Resources: Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum Gerald Ford Presidential Library and Museum Nixon's China Game. American Experience/PBS Environmental Protection Agency Occupational Health and Safety Administration Alabama Virtual Library Best of History Websites History Timelines (Alternatime) Digital History Using new technologies to enhance teaching and research History Matters Designed for high school teachers of U.S. history courses. A gateway for web resources and other useful materials for teaching U.S. history. National Archives Digital Classroom American Memory Primary source material from the collection of the Library of Congress. Graphic Organizers
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