1. Teacher Guide
This lesson is designed to teach kids to ask a critical thinking question that you can’t just put into a search box to solve. To do that, we encourage them with smaller questions that search can help them answer. Make sure that you read the notes for each slide: they not only give you teaching tips but also provide answers and hints so you can help the kids if they are having trouble.
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Patrice Berry earned a B. A. in Political Science at Swarthmore College, an M.S.Ed at the University of Pennsylvania, and is currently study college access and completion as a doctoral student at Temple University.  Patrice is currently the Academic Affairs Director at College Track (East Palo Alto), where she manages academic support initiatives designed to promote college access and college completion among first-generation, low-income students.  Ninety-percent of College Track students are accepted to college, and the college graduation rate is 2.5 times higher than the national average.  Prior to joining College Track, Patrice worked for the Netter Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania, for whom she designed and implemented college access and career readiness curricula.   Patrice recently married and now lives in Oakland, where she sings at local jam sessions in her free time.
This lesson is designed to teach the Common Core State Standard: History/Social Studies.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH : Determine the central idea or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH : Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text; determine whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH : Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH : Integrate information from diverse sources, both primary and secondary, into a coherent understanding of an idea or event, nothing discrepancies among sources.

2. What role did the Berlin Wall play in the Cold War?
© Schroptschop/Getty Images
Having this up as kids come in is a great settle down activity. You can start class by asking them for thoughts about the picture or about ideas on how they could solve the question of the day.

3. What role did the Berlin Wall play in the Cold War?
Twenty-five years after Germans demolished the wall that divided the East and West, Berlin is still a changing city. Germany’s strong economy has brought global retail and tech companies to the capital. And with that influx of jobs and money, Berliners have developed one of the most dynamic cultural centers of Europe. The city that once may’ve seemed like a hotspot only for avant-garde artists and musicians is now a bustling urban center with broad appeal for all.
Depending on time, you can either have students read this silently to themselves, have one of them read out loud, or read it out loud yourself.

4. What role did the Berlin Wall play in the Cold War?1
Web Search
What was the Cold War? 2
Image Search
Find an image that conveys the major events of the Cold War. What do you notice about who was involved and why? 3
Video Search
Find a video that mentions the Berlin Wall in its portrayal of the Cold War. How does the video connect the Berlin Wall with the Cold War? 4
Find a primary document that reflects an important theme of the Berlin Wall. What does this particular document convey about the role of the Berlin Wall in the Cold War?
There are a couple of ways to use this slide, depending on how much technology you have in your classroom. You can have students find answers on their own, divide them into teams to have them do all the questions competitively, or have each team find the answer to a different question and then come back together. If you’re doing teams, it is often wise to assign them roles (one person typing, one person who is in charge of sharing back the answer, etc.)

5. What role did the Berlin Wall play in the Cold War?5
Minutes
You can adjust this based on how much time you want to give kids. If a group isn’t able to answer in 5 minutes, you can give them the opportunity to update at the end of class or extend time.

6. What role did the Berlin Wall play in the Cold War?1
Web Search
What was the Cold War? 2
Image Search
Find an image that conveys the major events of the Cold War. What do you notice about who was involved and why? 3
Video Search
Find a video that mentions the Berlin Wall in its portrayal of the Cold War. How does the video connect the Berlin Wall with the Cold War? 4
Find a primary document that reflects an important theme of the Berlin Wall. What does this particular document convey about the role of the Berlin Wall in the Cold War?
You can ask the students verbally or let one of them come up and insert the answer or show how they got it. This way, you also have a record that you can keep as a class and share with parents, others.

7. What role did the Berlin Wall play in the Cold War?1
Web Search
What was the Cold War?
(Possible queries: “Cold War” or “Cold War description”)
Sources:
1: Wikipedia (Cold War):
2. Britannica:
The Cold War was a sustained rivalry of power (that involved nuclear weapons) between the United States and its allies (including members of NATO at that time) and the Soviet Union and its allies (including East Germany, Bulgaria and Poland).

8. What role did the Berlin Wall play in the Cold War?2
Image Search
Find an image that conveys the major events of the Cold War. What do you notice about who was involved and why?
(Possible queries: “Cold War, timeline” or “Cold War, major events”)
Sources:
1. Image from a public domain called Docstoc.com:
Image from Wikimedia.com:
The following entities seem to be involved in the Cold War: Members of Warsaw, the U.S., Berlin, the USSR. Especially from looking at the second image, I can tell their involvement seemed to surround either territorial or weapon threat, or actual territorial battles. Borders and alliances seem seem to be important themes.

9. What role did the Berlin Wall play in the Cold War?3
Video Search
Find a video that mentions the Berlin Wall in its portrayal of the Cold War. How does the video connect the Berlin Wall with the Cold War?
(Possible queries: “Berlin Wall, Cold War”)
From Youtube (Berlin Wall falls, Socialism Survives):
The Berlin Wall was described as being a barrier to socialism, which reflects one of the reasons some people claim the Soviet Union built it – to protect West Germany’s fascist state from East Germany’s socialist state.

10. What role did the Berlin Wall play in the Cold War?4
Web Search
Find a primary document that reflects an important theme of the Berlin Wall. What does this particular document convey about the role of the Berlin Wall in the Cold War?
(Possible queries: “primary document, Berlin Wall and Cold War” or “Berlin Wall history, primary document”)
Image of Primary Document:
This image is of one of the documents required for entry/exit in and out of the Berlin Wall. It conveys the seriousness and intensity with which the border and wall was executed; this ultimately reflects the deliberateness of military and government forces to enforce a communist state and repress resistance.

11. What role did the Berlin Wall play in the Cold War?
This slide is a chance to summarize the information from the previous slides to build your final answer to the question.