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The Moon Landing, 1969
Exploring evidence - drawing inferences from historical sources
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The documents-based study
• There will be much greater use of source materials especially in the teaching of the case studies
• It is important that there should be variety in the selection of historical sources to be used (G12)
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Case studies
• Case studies involve an in-depth investigation of a particularly significant or representative aspect of an element of the topic (S11)
• What makes a particular event historically
significant?
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Five R’s for dealing with historical significance
• Remarkable• Remembered• Resonant• Resulting in change • Revealing
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Topic 6: The Moon Landing, 1969 Associated elements• Advances in military, space and information
technology• US foreign policy, 1945-1972: Berlin, Korea,
Cuba, Vietnam
Associated key concepts• Technological development; the military
industrial complex
Associated key personality• Lyndon Johnson, Norman Mailer
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Enquiry question
Why was the USA the first country to put a man on the moon?
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Syllabus Learning Outcome
Students should be able to draw conclusions from historical sources and use these conclusions to help form judgements on historical issues (S10)
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Layers of inference
• Documents can be very revealing of the events, attitudes and mores of a period.
• There are layers of meaning in documents, some of which may not be immediately obvious to students.
• This exercise invites students to climb into a source to search not only for what the source tells us but what can be inferred from the source.
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Layers of inference
source
What does the source tell me?
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Autumn 2007, The United States and the world, 1945-1989,www.pdst.ie
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Layers of inference
source
What does the source tell me?
What can be inferred from the source?
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Autumn 2007, The United States and the world, 1945-1989, www.pdst.ie11
Layers of inference
source
What does the source tell me?
What can be inferred from the source?
What doesn’t the source tell me?
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Autumn 2007, The United States and the world, 1945-1989, www.pdst.ie
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Layers of inference
source
What does the source tell me?
What can be inferred from the source?
What doesn’t this source tell me?
What other questions are posed by this source?
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Inferring from photographs
• Comprehension – list all you see in the photograph/diagram
• Interpretation – list three things that could be inferred from this photograph
• Wider context– Decisions made by the photographer– Events surrounding the scene– Any questions raised
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Use of photographs (see worksheet)
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16Apollo 11 astronauts transfer to the launch site
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Task accomplished…..
July, 1969
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18President Nixon talks to the astronauts in quarantine
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“American Know-How”
July 17 1969
“Louisville Courier Journal”
Cartoonist:
Hugh Haynie
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Why was the USA the first country to put a man on the moon?
The US felt threatened by Soviet advances in the space race
Despite urban poverty and criticism from some Americans, massive spending continued on the space programme
The US was seeking to take the dominant role in world affairs
There were huge advances made in science and technology
The US wanted a dramatic success in the space programme
The USSR did not put as much funding into their lunar programme as the US
One small step…
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Why was the USA the first country to put a man on the moon?
The US felt threatened by Soviet advances in the space race
Despite urban poverty and criticism from some Americans, massive spending continued on the space programme
The US was seeking to take the dominant role in world affairs
The US had made big advances in science and technology
The US administration wanted a dramatic success in the space programme
The USSR did not put as much funding into their lunar programme as the US
One small step…
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Why was the USA the first country to put a man on the moon?
The US felt threatened by Soviet advances in the space race
Despite urban poverty and criticism from some Americans, massive spending continued on the space programme
The US was seeking to take the dominant role in world affairs
The US had made big advances in science and technology
The US wanted a dramatic success in the space programme
The USSR did not put as much funding into their lunar programme as the US
One small step…
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Why was the USA the first country to put a man on the moon?
The US felt threatened by Soviet advances in the space race
Despite urban poverty and criticism from some Americans, massive spending continued on the space programme
The US was seeking to take the dominant role in world affairs
The US had made big advances in science and technology
The US wanted a dramatic success in the space programme
The USSR did not put as much funding into their lunar programme as the US
One small step…
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Why was the USA the first country to put a man on the moon?
The US felt threatened by Soviet advances in the space race
Despite urban poverty and criticism from some Americans, massive spending continued on the space programme
The US was seeking to take the dominant role in world affairs
The US had made big advances in science and technology
The US wanted a dramatic success in the space programme
The USSR did not put as much funding into their lunar programme as the US
One small step…
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www.pdst.ieDocument resources for LME 6
Johnson and KennedyKhrushchev and Kennedy
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www.pdst.ieExemplar documents-based question
More exemplar DBQs are available on www.pdst.ie
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“In the Shadow of the Moon”
New documentary about the Apollo 11 Moon landing, on release from early November, with re-mastered NASA archive footage.
Promotional trailer, and other relevant materials, can be accessed through
www.imdb.com/title/tt0925248/trailers
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