Young Yorkers Leaflet: The 1940s

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 Teacher Edition, Page 1		 Description: Students use a timeline as a visual note-taker to collect local information about the 1940s. The layers of the timeline are meant to provide an overall context linking the students' local community with the larger state of New York and the United States.

Learning Goals:

  • Introduce students to the recent past, and the many different resources available to study it
  • Develop skills of comparison and contrast
  • Develop the concept of change over time

Number of pages: 8 (teacher edition - 4; student edition - 4)

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