Unit One Table of Contents |
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Activity One
This activity is intended to help students understand that, despite how difficult life's problems and issues might appear, there are methods and approaches that can be used to find solutions for them, and to give the students an overview of the basic skills/abilities they will be studying this year.
Activity Two
This activity is intended to help students see that are a number of techniques that can be used to solve individual, group and world problems/issues.
Activity Three
This concept development activity provides students with an opportunity to investigate authoritarian and democratic leadership styles and to identify the critical attributes of each style. The activity also allows the students to use their personal backgrounds and experiences to develop the concepts.
Activity Four
This concept application activity gives students an opportunity to analyze the style of decision making used in specific historical situations. It also allows students to prepare arguments for a particular style of decision making, with the goal of gaining the support of the parties affected by the decision.
Activity Five
This concept application activity provides students with an opportunity to investigate the nineteenth century European perception about non-white populations and cultures and the "reality" of those cultures. The students will gain an awareness of the effect perceptions (paradigms) have on the actions of people and nations.
Activity Six
This concept development lesson provides students with an opportunity to respond to a variety of contemporary issues and to correlate their response with a political ideology. This activity allows the students to identify where they are on the political spectrum.
Activity Seven
This general concept application lesson gives students an opportunity to research current issues of interest and then identify how the ideologies of conservatism, liberalism and socialism would interpret and handle each of the issues.