Oil Crisis of 1973
Oil Crisis of 1973
Oil Crisis of 1973
I. Overview (Less than 1 minute): Purpose is to guide instruction toward a coherent objective.
Should be a significant and measurable statement of what students will know and be able to do
as a result of the lesson.
Students should understand the Oil Crisis of 1973, as well as the causes of the U.S. Oil
embargo. By the end of the lesson, students will understand the implications and
consequences that the Oil Crisis had on U.S. economy and foreign policy.
1. What are the CA Content Standard(s) AND Common Core Standards addressed?
CACS: 11.9- Students analyze U.S. foreign policy since World War II.
CACS: 11.11- Students analyze the major social problems and domestic policy issues in
contemporary American society.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.2
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II. Anticipatory Set/aka Opener (About 4 minutes): Purpose is to access prior knowledge,
connect prior knowledge to new knowledge, cue attention toward day’s topic, and/or create
interest. The opener introduces the lesson, but should not overwhelm the it. A good set
seamlessly flows into instruction.
Summary of Opener: Teacher will ask students what they know about oil/gasoline to
introduce the lesson topic and have students start thinking critically about the
significance of oil in everyday lives.
III. Direct Instruction (About 15 minutes): This is an instructional approach to learning driven by
the teacher. The purpose is to get information, usually new material, to students relatively
quickly. While this can take various forms, lecture is the most widely recognized. You will deliver
a PowerPoint lecture in this portion of your lesson.
-OPEC (organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) → embargo (what it was and
how effective it was)
-Shift from domestic oil to oil in foregin countries (domestic oil could not keep up with
demand; Oil in the Middle East was cheaper to produce and import; domestic oil
production was already in decline)
-consequences & President Nixon (economic effects, price control/rationing,
conservation and reduction in demand, alternative energy sources, macro-economy,
international relations, automobile industry, consequences for future energy)
-decline of OPEC
1. How are you checking for understanding during lecture? Here you want to ensure that
students comprehend the information and are ready to use it.
● Students will have the opportunity to ask questions about material. Key terms will
be highlighted throughout the lesson.
IV. Guided Practice (The Bulk of Time in a Real Class – However, you will explain in about 5 to
10 minutes): Purpose is to provide students the space to develop a deeper understanding of the
content and to hone critical thinking skills. The teacher provides the instructions and the
resources for an activity and then allows students to work through (often collaboratively) the
content and concepts to make their own. Teacher serves as a facilitator, providing support when
necessary. This should be a student-centered approach to learning. For your lesson, the activity
should be rooted in primary source analysis. (When you deliver your lesson, you should display
the instructions, primary source documents and give specific examples of what students will be
doing).
Summary of Guided Practice: Students will be broken up into 10 groups of 4. Groups 1-5
will be given images to analyze (who, what, when, why, how?); groups 6-10 will analyze
political cartoons from the time period.
After this practice, a spokesperson from each group will briefly describe what is going
on in the picture. If students missed something, teachers will follow up with questions.
After each group is finished, teachers will talk about the themes of the lesson.
V. Closure (About 3 minutes): Purpose is to highlight new learning for students. Students
should take an active role in this summary. It reinforces the big takeaways for the day and
answers questions like, “So what? Why did we do this? What is this good for?” This is also a
good time to circle back to the essential question(s) for the day.
Summary of strategy/technique for Closure:
Ask the EQ: How did the 1973 Oil Crisis affect U.S. economy and foreign policy?
Summarize how this crisis affects daily lives? Why is this important? Do you still see
effects of this crisis today? ** current oil shortage
VI. Independent Practice (About 2 minutes): Purpose is to reinforce content knowledge and
continue to hone skills focused on in day’s lesson. This is done independently. Teacher will
check at the completion of the assignment to assess students’ skill level and understanding.
Sometimes occurs during class if time permits. For your lesson, this will be a homework
assignment.
Summary of Independent Practice:
Students will be assigned a short oral history assignment: find a person who was alive
during this embargo and ask them what it was like during this time. If no person could be
found, find a primary source that we did not describe in class and write a small summary,
be sure to include citations. Note that the finer details focus more on government that
will be covered next year.
Students will be asked to write a short paper (1 page, double space) discussing how the
oil crisis affects different people. Each student will be assigned a person based on their
last name.
VIII. Identify 5 Sources Used to Design Lesson: This can be sources that assisted you in
content mastery and/or lesson plan development. (Use Turabian/Chicago Manual of Style)
Issawi, Charles. "The 1973 Oil Crisis and After." Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 1, no. 2
(Winter 1979), 3-26. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4537467.
Myre, Greg. "The 1973 Arab Oil Embargo: The Old Rules No Longer Apply." NPR.org. Last
modified October 16, 2013. https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2013/10/15/234771573/the-
1973-arab-oil-embargo-the-old-rules-no-longer-apply.
Nixon, Richard. "Address to the Nation about National Energy Policy." Speech, Washington
D.C., November 25, 1973.
United States Department of State. "Milestones: 1969–1976." Office of the Historian. Last
modified April 8, 2018. https://history.state.gov/milestones/1969-1976/oil-embargo.