Standard F - The student uses knowledge of facts and concepts drawn from history, along with methods of historical inquiry, to inform decision-making about and action-taking on public issues. Standard D - The student identifies and uses processes important to reconstructing and reinterpreting the past, such as using a variety of sources, providing, validating, and weighing evidence for claims, checking credibility of sources, and searching for causality. Standard B - The student explains how information and experiences may be interpreted by people from diverse cultural perspectives and frames of reference. The Battle of Midway: Turning the Tide in the Pacific relates to the following Social Studies Standards: Standard 3B- The student understands World War II and how the allies prevailed. Standard 3A- The student understands the international background of World War II. Relates to the following National Standards for History:Įra 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945) The Battle of Midway: Turning the Tide in the Pacific United States History Standards for Grades 5-12 Topics: This lesson can be used in American history, social studies, and geography courses in units on World War II.
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This lesson is one in a series that brings the important stories of historic places into classrooms across the country. TwHP is sponsored, in part, by the Cultural Resources Training Initiative and Parks as Classrooms programs of the National Park Service. Marilyn Harper, Fay Metcalf, and the Teaching with Historic Places staff edited the lesson. Kathleen Hunter, an educational consultant, wrote The Battle of Midway: Turning the Tide in the Pacific. This lesson plan is based on the National Historic Landmark nomination file, " World War II Facilities at Midway" (with photographs), and historic accounts of the campaign. offensive that would end three years later at the doorstep of the Home Islands. victory here ended Japan's seemingly unstoppable advance across the Pacific and began a U.S. These tiny islands were the focus of a brutal struggle between the Japanese Imperial Navy and the United States Pacific Fleet. Inhabited by humans for less than a century, Midway dominated world news for a brief time in the early summer of 1942. They still perch on the airport runways and the old ammunition magazines and gun batteries, but they no longer need to do daily battle with America's armed forces for possession of the islands. Today, the shadows of their huge wings still dapple the glassy sea as they glide towards the islands to nest. The birds soiled the runways, clogged the engines of departing aircraft, and were always, always underfoot. Beautiful in flight, but ungainly in their movement on land, the albatrosses were called "gooney birds" by the men stationed on the islands during World War II. This lesson is part of the National Park Service’s Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) program.į or centuries, thousands of albatrosses have lived on the desolate islands that comprise the Midway Atoll.
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