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Sign up to receive your own updates This month with January 2018 Your guide to the people, places and events to explore this month. Nuclear in the News President Trump and North Korea’s, Kim Jong Un, continue to make threats (and headlines) regarding their respective nuclear weapons, nuclear missiles, and nuclear button capacities. This type of news can be scary, but it also presents an opportunity to springboard into science, government, and historical discussions. What is nuclear energy and how was it discovered? How do our governments leverage intelligence to protect their citizens? Is infrastructure designed to withstand nuclear or other types of attacks? Explore these units below to get your classrooms discovering and debating these timely issues. The Nuclear Age Key People: Enrico Fermi Lord Ernest Rutherford Places/Events: Cuban Missile Crisis Primary Sources: Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Petition to the President of the United States Project Idea: Examining the Nuclear Age National Intelligence Key People: George Tenet Porter J. Goss Places/Events: Bay of Pigs Invasion Spies Primary Sources: The Origins of the President’s Daily Brief, 1946 How to Prevent and Respond to Cyber-attacks from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) U.S. Infrastructure Key People: Alexander Graham Bell Thomas Alva Edison Places/Events: Interstate Highway System Transcontinental Railroad Primary Sources: Telegram From President Lincoln to General Grant Address by Mayor Bloomberg Students were taught to “duck and cover” during air-raid drills. Watch the drill in action! (Nuclear Age eBook, pg 23) Learn more about getting the most out of FreedomFlix by attending one of our upcoming online training sessions: Thursday, February 1st 2018 3:00 to 4:00 pm EST Monday, February 12th 2018 10:00 to 11:00 am EST We'd Love to Hear From You! How do you use FreedomFlix?  Share with us and you could be spotlighted in the next newsletter. We'll even send you a free gift as a special thank you! We look forward to hearing from you.

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