This unit, while only two lessons and seven class sessions, allows students to develop an awareness and deep content knowledge of the role the United States had in recovery after World War II through the Marshall Plan and the establishment of the United Nations. As a result of their research on children’s issues the United Nations and international foundations help alleviate, students will participate in a learner-designed service activity.

The learners will:

• use definitions relating to the third sector and government philanthropy.
  
  
• explain the differences between philanthropy, governmental philanthropy and private sector philanthropy as each relates to Post World War II Europe.
  
  
• study the effects of The Marshall Plan on the war-torn countries of Europe.
  
  
• produce evidence citing government and private sector philanthropy in post World War II Europe.
  
  
• support a position on whether or not The Marshall Plan was philanthropic.
  
  
• demonstrate problem-solving and decision-making skills in expressing opinions about what may or may not have happened in post WWII Europe if the U.S. had not put The Marshall Plan into effect.
  
  
• discover the reasons why an international organization was needed as an outcome of WWII.
  
  
• develop the historical sequence leading to the establishment of the United Nations.
  
  
• identify the aims and principles of the United Nations.
  
  
• identify the philanthropic activities of the United Nations, i.e. UNESCO and UNICEF
  
  
• identify and explain NGOs and their role in world affairs.
  
  
• demonstrate ability to research, organize and present findings through inquiry and discovery.
  
  
• participate in a student-designed service activity addressing an issue facing children in the world.

• Assess peer group presentations, student research, class participation
  
  
• Teacher observations of each component
  
  
• Quiz or test on Marshall Plan
  
  
• Evaluate Attachment Two of Lesson One: Governmental Philanthropy-The Marshall Plan
  
  
• Evaluate responses to Attachment Three of Lesson One: Governmental Philanthropy-The Marshall Plan
  
  
• Written responses to Attachment Two of Lesson Two: The United Nations
  
  
• Assess written summaries, oral presentations, instructor-constructed test on United Nations content