Idaho Social Studies 9-12.US2.33
The Standard
Analyze the major features of the Great Society policy. This may include: • War on Poverty • Medicare/Medicaid • Head Start and Education Reform • Urban Renewal • Support for the Arts and Humanities • Immigration Reform • Environmental Initiatives
Idaho Content Standards: K-12 Social Studies · Affluence, Cold War, and Social Revolutions 1945-1974
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify the problems Great Society policies targeted, including poverty, health care, education, city conditions, immigration, the arts, and pollution. They explain how specific policies worked, who benefited, and what problems remained.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student knows Medicare serves older adults, Medicaid covers eligible people with low incomes, and Head Start provides early education. They can explain how immigration reform ended national-origin quotas and how urban renewal could displace residents. They can name a federal arts or environmental measure and its goal.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often swap Medicare and Medicaid or think Head Start pays for college. Some think the 1965 immigration law created national-origin quotas, when it ended them. Others assume urban renewal helped every resident and miss neighborhood displacement.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Choose Medicare and one of Head Start, urban renewal, or the 1965 immigration law. For each, name the problem it addressed, the people affected, and one result or limit.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs six policy cards and sticky notes; have them sort the cards by goal and label who each policy aimed to help.
Ask students: Did urban renewal help a neighborhood if longtime residents had to leave? Use one policy card to support your answer.
Run a matching game with program cards and descriptions of Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Have students compare current Medicare and Medicaid eligibility pages and write one way each program still shapes access to care.
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