Cold War Digital Interactive Notebook
Start off your Cold War unit with a digital interactive notebook. Digital interactive notebooks are great to use in your social studies classroom! Don’t spend your time creating one for the Cold War because I have one that’s ready-made just for you!
This Cold War Digital Interactive Notebook is perfect for upper elementary classrooms! You can use this to kick off your Cold War Unit, as a review, or you can split up the slides and use as you teach your unit. It is housed in one Google Slides presentation with 20 slides, and you’ll get your very own copy!
This Digital Notebook covers the following topics:
After World War 2
The Iron Curtain
Spread of Communism
McCarthy & Khrushchev
Cuban Missile Crisis
Vietnam War
Features of the Cold War Digital Interactive Notebook:
Clickable tabs (to mimic a real notebook) for easy organization
Engaging images, maps, propaganda posters, and videos
Key facts and people
“Did you Know” fact bubbles
Vocabulary
Prompts for students to complete
Self-Checks throughout the notebook
Cold War Summary Slides
Checklist of objectives for students to complete
Can be used for virtual classrooms or for in-person classrooms
Tips to Use:
This digital interactive notebook can be used in so many different ways! The slides do not have to be completed in order or all at once. You can adjust it to fit your classroom.
Some ideas for using this Cold War Digital Interactive Notebook in your classroom:
Warm-up/Bell-Ringer/Activator: use a slide as an activating strategy. You can sprinkle them in throughout the year or several days in a row.
Part of spiral review during your Cold War Unit: sprinkle a slide or two in with your other content throughout the unit, so the information stays fresh
Independent Work: Have students complete the slides independently during quiet time
Small groups/partners: Have students complete some of the slides with a partner (or a combination of partners and independent)
Station: When you’re doing stations/centers with other Cold War activities, add in a “Digital Interactive Notebook” station. Use some of the slides from this packet as a station.
Homework: Give one or two slides from the packet as homework.
Grab it now!
This engaging, easy-to-use digital notebook is waiting for you!
My no-prep Cold War Digital Interactive Notebook includes all the slides you see in the images above, plus more. I created this knowing you are super busy, so it is super LOW PREP. Click here to purchase the Cold War Digital Interactive Notebook.
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