History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals Lesson Experience

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Every TCI lesson has three options for active learning. Explore the options for Fighting the Cold War at Home. Experiment with lesson order, activity types, and tools to see how they fit your classroom.

Classroom Activity

Play a game and explore a primary source, “Duck and Cover,” video to better understand anticommunist suspicion and fear of nuclear destruction in the early Cold War.

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Video Activity

Take on the role of a film critic to analyze historical films and answer questions about the Cold War.

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Reading

Available in print and online, students explore how anxieties raised by the Cold War affected life in the United States through reading and notebook questions.

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About History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals

TCI’s History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals for high school provides the comprehensive teacher support and standards-aligned content you expect, but what makes this program unique is engagement that works. Students play the role of CIA agents during the Cold War, analyze wartime primary sources, and explore perspectives during the Great Depression. With this program, you get:

Meaningful Activities
Classroom-Friendly Technology
Ongoing Teacher and District Support
High-Quality, Standards-Aligned Curriculum

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