Task
1. Watch the Khan academy video on the introduction page for a general idea about why the united states entered wwi.
2. Create a new google doc and Title it WWI Webquest. You will use this document to record your responses to the document questions below and/or insert an image of your mind map based on which culminating activity you choose to do. once you have completed it you will share this document to my google drive.
3. Click this link and starting on page 67 read the U.S. History standards and notes on WWI that was created by Georgia's department of education. answer the following questions in your google doc in a section titled "Georgia's standards and notes."
- How is this information similar to the Khan academy video you watched?
- make a list of all of the reasons mentioned as causes for u.s. involvement in wwi based on the information from the khan academy video as well as information from the georgia standards and notes.
- Do the georgia standards and notes include the "cynical" reasons for u.s. involvement that the khan academy video mentions? explain.
4. for the culminating activity for this webquest you can either choose to get creative, or delve a little further into the historian's craft. For option "a" you can create a mind map about u.s. involvement into wwi. for option "b" you can put on you can be a real historian by examining further why the u.s. entered wwi by analyzing primary and secondary sources. Go to the "process" page on more detailed information for options "A" and "b" and for helpful resources.