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Discover the surprising true story of the first global lockdown in history!
Why did a city of 11 million people become the first place on Earth ordered to stay home? Could a government really use fear on purpose to control its own citizens? What happens to a country’s freedoms when fear takes over? This one-week unit study answers those questions with true stories from recent history, written to be read aloud and discussed together.
Recommended for K-6
Over five days, children travel from a doctor’s office in Wuhan, China in late 2019 to courtrooms and legislatures years later, tracing how the world’s first-ever lockdowns unfolded. They meet the secret British scientists who wrote a government report recommending “hard-hitting emotional messaging” to make citizens more afraid, the leaders of Sweden who chose a different path and kept schools open, small business owners and families who bore the heaviest costs of the shutdowns, and Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, who later called the pandemic response “the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country.”
Along the way, students read real words from government documents, court rulings, and official statements. They learn to ask the historian’s questions: Who is making this claim? What evidence supports it? Who benefits if I believe it?
Each lesson includes:
– A story-based reading with real historical images
– Vocabulary words with kid-friendly definitions
– Key dates to add to your timeline
– Questions to Think About
-Audio Lessons
The complete unit also includes:
– A full list of timeline dates for the whole unit
– Discussion questions connecting the big ideas across all five lessons
– A final quiz with answer key
– A Sources page for further reading
-Activity and Lapbook pages
Complete one lesson a day for a meaningful week of learning, and help your child build the habit of asking hard questions instead of taking the official story at face value.
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