Revolution Inquiry Project
We are going to explore revolutions through inquiry-based learning. What is this? It is student-centered learning - it is a process where "students formulate questions, investigate to find answers, build new understandings, meanings and knowledge, and then communicate what they have learned to others." Your goal will be to answer the Critical Challenge Question.
The Critical Challenge Question:
How do revolutions improve lives (or not), and do they facilitate long-lasting change?
In this Revolution Unit I hope you will:
We are going to explore revolutions through inquiry-based learning. What is this? It is student-centered learning - it is a process where "students formulate questions, investigate to find answers, build new understandings, meanings and knowledge, and then communicate what they have learned to others." Your goal will be to answer the Critical Challenge Question.
The Critical Challenge Question:
How do revolutions improve lives (or not), and do they facilitate long-lasting change?
In this Revolution Unit I hope you will:
- Delve deep into learning about one revolutionary event that has taken place.
- Understand how and why change happens.
- Understand how historical events have influenced the world we know, and live in, today.
- Understand that change is driven by multiple causes, and results in multiple consequences
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Here are some good sites to start your research:
American Revolution
Cuban Revolution and Fidel Castro
Chinese Revolution and Mao Zedong
- Simple Wikepedia - Put your topic into the search bar
- Encyclopedia Britannica - Put your topic into the search bar.
- Crash Course - This site has lots of great videos on revolutions (They are made by the same guy who wrote Fault in Our Stars)
- History - Another good resource for videos. Put your topic into the search bar.
- Interactive timeline for the Arab Spring
- American Civil War simplified
- Ducksters (A great resource for students to use. It explains many of the revolutions in a way that is easier to understand.
American Revolution
Cuban Revolution and Fidel Castro
Chinese Revolution and Mao Zedong
Infographic Websites: