Student Learning Map
Name: Janice Meridith
Course/Subject: Social Studies
Topic: Conflict & Change in Europe
Date: Start 9-26-11
Team: 6th Grade
School District: RECA/Glynn Co.
Key Learning: Conflicts in Europe have brought about changes to modern day Europe.
Unit Essential Question: What conflicts and changes occurred in Europe during
the 20th Century?
Concept:
European colonial empires in
Africa and Asia impacted the
outbreak of WWI.
Concept:
The Russian Revolution
contributed to instability in
Europe.
Concept:
The Treaty of Versailles and
world-wide depression impacted
Europe between WWI and WWII.
Lesson Essential Questions:
 How did the existence of
large European colonial
empires in Africa and Asia
impact the outbreak of
WWI?
Lesson Essential Questions:
 How did the Russian
Revolution contribute to
instability in Europe during
and after WWI?
Lesson Essential Questions:
 How did the Treaty of
Versailles and world-wide
depression impact Europe in
the years between WWI and
WWII?
Vocabulary:
 Colonial empires
 World War I
Vocabulary:
 Russian Revolution
 instability
Vocabulary:
 Treaty of Versailles
 Depression
 Scarcity
Additional Information/Resources: World Cultures and Geography Textbook, Internet Resources,
Georgia Standards.org, etc.
Student Learning Map
Concept:
Nazism lead to WWII
Concept:
The differing philosophies
of the U.S. and the S.U.
after WWII led to the cold
war
Concept:
The Holocaust was a
significant event of WWII.
Concept:
Certain events led to the
collapse of the S.U., and
the reunification of
Germany.
Concept:
There is a relationship
between the collapse of
the S.U., the reunification
of Germany, and the end
of the Cold War.
Lesson Essential
Questions:
 How did the idea of
Nazism lead to WWII?
Lesson Essential
Questions:
 How did the differing
philosophies of the
United States and the
Soviet Union after
WWII lead to the Cold
War?
Lesson Essential
Questions:
 Why is the Holocaust
a significant event of
WWII?
Lesson Essential
Questions:
 What events led to
the collapse of the
Soviet Union?
Lesson Essential
Questions:
 What is the
relationship between
the collapse of the
Soviet Union, the
reunification of
Germany, and the end
of the Cold War?
Vocabulary:
 Philosophy
 Cold War
 Arms Race
 Nuclear Weapons
 Superpowers
 Soviet Union
Vocabulary:
 Holocaust
 Jewish
 Persecution
 Concentration Camps
 Extermination
Vocabulary:
 Nazism
 Adolph Hitler
 Dictator
What events led to
the reunification of
Germany?
Vocabulary:
 collapse
 reunification
Vocabulary:
 relationship