Help students connect the film Avatar to major themes of American imperialism in the late 1800s and early 1900s. This engaging lesson asks students to analyze how the movie reflects historical patterns connected to Hawaii, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Panama, the Open Door Policy, the Roosevelt Corollary, and the Spanish-American War.
Students examine imperialism through historical topics such as natural resource extraction, military power, racial and cultural superiority, “civilizing” missions, guerrilla resistance, strategic territory, economic control, and anti-imperialism. Each activity includes a short historical background paragraph followed by a comparison question that requires students to connect the historical situation to specific characters, conflicts, and scenes from Avatar.
This resource is designed for U.S. History, AP U.S. History, Honors U.S. History, or World History classes studying American imperialism, overseas expansion, or the consequences of empire.
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Hi, I am Rodney, and I teach six different AP classes in a school year. Daily all year long I teach AP US, AP CSA, AP CSP and AP Cyber Security. For my two half year courses I teach AP Government and AP Microeconomics. This store was designed to help AP teachers put some of the fun and organization back into class. As a teacher I try to get real life issues and thoughts into the everyday work load so that students are not just simply preparing for a test, they start to look at the everyday life with analysis. You will see that in some cases I use multimedia to create lessons, like my Avatar lesson in which students look at American Imperialism and match it to the Movie, giving them a real visual to work with. Other items that I have created allow students to dig into both technology and analysis. For instance in microeconomics I allow them to play monopoly but they must use Microeconomic terminology to discuss their moves and purchases. We create a google sheet to keep track of their transactions, they use terminology to track and discuss what they are working through. Although not every assignment is exciting I try to make sure everything is getting them to think deeper than they usually would.
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