Card Sort: Hitler Verses Roosevelt (FDR)

This fun and interactive card sort lesson is designed to help your students compare and contrast the different ideas and approaches that both Hitler and Roosevelt took to tackle Great Depression in their countries. It can be used as a stand alone lesson or as a revision exercise at the end of a topic of work looking at both leaders. It includes a range of support and extension activities to help provide stretch and challenge for the range of ability.

When you purchase this lesson you will be able to download a two page Word document, which contains the cards to be sorted as well as an accompanying a 27 slide PowerPoint presentation. Both documents have been also uploaded a s PDFs just in case you do not have access to MIcrosoft Office.

The Word document has 4 headings labelled talking to people, tackling unemployment, trade unions and law courts, as well as 28 information slides to be sorted under them and an addition 8 extension slides.

The PowerPoint contains aims, objectives, differentiated outcomes, starters, plenaries, information slides, a continuum exercise, instruction slides, templates and writing frames.

If you are using this lesson to revise this topic, you could compete the card sort first and then use the information slides to feed back the answers to your students. Alternatively, if you are introducing this topic to your students, you can complete the card sort after you have reviewed the similarities and differences between the two leaders on the key areas of discussion.

The aims and objectives of this lesson are:

Theme: The Great Depression, 1929 - 1939
Know: How did Hitler and Roosevelt try to put their countries back to work?
Understand: The different approaches that the two leaders took to save their countries?
Evaluate: What were the similarities in their approaches?
Skills: Source Analysis, Cause, Consequence & Collaboration

WILF – What Am I Looking For?
Can You Describe: How both Hitler and Roosevelt tried to tackle the Great Depression?
Can You Explain: The different approaches both leaders took to save their countries?
Can You Evaluate: What were the similarities in their approaches?

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