{"id":3728,"date":"2016-03-28T22:40:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T19:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=3728"},"modified":"2016-02-07T22:42:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T19:42:31","slug":"mccarthyism-and-the-second-red-scare-design-a-school-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/mccarthyism-and-the-second-red-scare-design-a-school-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthyism and the Second Red Scare: Design a school exhibition!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/worksheets\/ib\/ib_red_scare\/3_Exhibition.docx\">Design a school exhibition!<\/a><br \/>\nThe Impact of McCarthyism in the USA in the 1950s is such a rich topic of study that it is difficult to know what to focus on, so I let each student choose their own area of interest (music, film, politics, science&#8230;.) and then gave them their own exhibition space to produce something in the school corridor. Rather than it being a &#8216;display&#8217; they have to include questions \/ tasks (what they called &#8216;clickbait&#8217;!) to get other students interested. They came up with some great ideas (&#8216;Which one of these posters is NOT really from the period?&#8217;, &#8216;Match this character card to the one on display which tells you what happened to them in the Red Scare&#8217;, &#8216;Find the &#8216;reds under the beds&#8217; badges hidden around school and trade each one in for a sweet!&#8221; and so on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/IB\/redscareexhibit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Design a school exhibition! The Impact of McCarthyism in the USA in the 1950s is such a rich topic of study that it is difficult to know what to focus on, so I let each student choose their own area of interest (music, film, politics, science&#8230;.) and then gave them their own exhibition space to&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/mccarthyism-and-the-second-red-scare-design-a-school-exhibition\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[246,259,479,480,481,329],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-Y8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3731,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions\/3731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}