Mankind Story of All of Us: Episode 12 (New Frontiers)

- Grades
- Grades 7–11, Middle School, High School
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Social Studies, History, History: USA, History: World
- Topic
- Mankind, Technology
- Resource types
- Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets
- Preparation
- Print ready
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What's inside this resource
Mankind Story of All of Us: Episode 12 (New Frontiers) is an effective teaching resource primarily designed for subjects like Social Studies and History: USA and History: World. This resource would serve best for grades ranging from 7th to 11th.
This guide builds upon the comprehensive foundation provided by the informative 2010 series `America the Story of Us', providing a wide lens into how technology has paced human progress in America and beyond. The range stretches from tough survival years during Ice Ages to leaps towards space exploration, considering mankind's immense feat in harnessing science and technology.
The key focus points are:
- Turning points significant to our human evolution,
- The journey from being mere hunter-gatherers on the African savannah to citizens spread across Earth,
- The benefits as well as perils illustrated by instances like Hiroshima's nuclear weapon use (August 6th,1945) versus our ability today to feed billions and employing genetic engineering.
A special feature includes teacher-generated questions that have been meticulously framed with educational effectiveness, enhancing video presentations. These ready-to-print questions engage learners actively throughout class or group discussions or even serve as revision assignments processed individually at home.
Distinguishing features include:
- Create an engaging learning environment through easy-to-use questionnaires,
- All-inclusive answer keys post-learning evaluation purposes,
- Inclusion of all resources in a user-friendly PDF file format.
In a nutshell, despite cluttered lesson plans, make your next choiceMankind Story of All Of Us: Episode 12 (New Frontiers),a tool bridging the information gap between learners' curiosity regarding human evolution and technology revolution, and comprehensive scholarly understanding.
In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Identify key scientific and historical events covered in the documentary episode, such as hybrid corn, the atomic bomb, and the first heart transplant.
Explain the significance of the atomic bomb's development and its role as a wartime deterrent.
Analyze two quotations by George Santayana about memory, history, and war.
Describe the civil-rights movement's fight for voting rights as depicted in the documentary.
Teaching tips
Play the video episode and pause after each numbered segment so students can answer in the chronological order the questions follow.
Use question 5 and question 12 as discussion prompts, since both ask students to reflect rather than recall a fact.
Review the Teacher KEY together after viewing to confirm answers such as the exact heart-transplant statistic and the atmospheric composition question.
Skills covered
Video-based note-taking — students answer 12 chronological questions while watching the documentary episode.
Scientific recall — students identify facts such as the element making up 78% of the atmosphere and the impact of fertilizer on farming.
Historical analysis — students explain the significance of the atomic bomb and a civil-rights march for voting rights.
Quote analysis — students interpret two George Santayana quotations about history and war.
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How are the questions structured relative to the video?
In chronological order — students answer each question as its topic appears while watching the episode.
What do the two George Santayana quotes ask students to consider?
One about history repeating itself when forgotten, and one about war never truly ending — both used as reflection prompts tied to the episode's themes.
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technological progress
atomic age
civil rights
primary quote analysis
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