MYP Individuals & Societies • Year 9 • Unit 3
Conflict & Resolution
Analysing sources from historical and current conflicts reveals shared causes, effects and possible strategies for resolution.
Change — conflict as an engine of change.
Original AdornGeo sequence
Unit learning
Why do wars occur?
War, what's it good for?
Mapping conflict
Causes of World War One
World War One introduction
Battles of WW1 — group investigations
Remembrance and the human experience of war
Ideologies
The rise of the Nazis
Appeasement
World War Two
The Holocaust
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Wave — a social experiment
Why Do Wars Occur?
The original opening inquiry asks students to compare competing explanations for warfare and recognise recurring political, economic, territorial and ideological causes.
Why Nations Go to War
War & Human Nature — Crash Course World History
War, What's It Good For?
Music and historical interpretation provide contrasting ways to question the purpose, costs and consequences of war.
Edwin Starr — War
Bruce Springsteen — War
Mapping Conflict
Students map the changing spatial distribution of conflict, then use scale, location and chronology to identify patterns.
A map of every recorded battle
How to create a Google map
Causes of World War One
The sequence moves from the MAIN framework to the July Crisis, asking students to distinguish long-term structural causes from the immediate trigger.
How World War I Started — Crash Course
The four MAIN causes of World War One
Quizlet: Conflict and World War I key vocabulary
World War One Introduction
Students move from causes into lived experience, technology, alliances and the global geography of the conflict.
People's Century — 1900: Age of Hope
They Shall Not Grow Old — trailer
1917 — official trailer
Battles of WW1 — Group Investigations
Groups investigate key battles, compare their strategic significance and human cost, and assemble a shared visual account of the war.
Remembrance and the Human Experience of War
Poetry, remembrance traditions and restored film links connect large-scale conflict to individual memory and loss.
A short history of the poppy
The story behind In Flanders Fields
For the Fallen — Karliene
Ideologies
Students compare political ideologies and examine how belief systems shape state power, identity, conflict and social change.
The Rise of the Nazis
The original unit traces the early Nazi Party, the conditions that enabled Hitler's rise and the progressive erosion of democratic institutions.
How did Hitler rise to power? — TED-Ed
Quizlet: The rise of Hitler
Appeasement
Students evaluate Neville Chamberlain's policy using evidence, hindsight and political cartoons rather than treating appeasement as a simple error.
Appeasement — did Chamberlain do the right thing?
Dr. Seuss's fight against the Nazis
World War Two
The unit carries the interwar sequence into global war, propaganda and the consequences of authoritarian expansion.
The Holocaust
This section places persecution and genocide within the wider study of Nazi ideology, state power, dehumanisation and individual responsibility.
The Diary of Anne Frank
Anne Frank's diary is used as a personal primary source through which students explore persecution, daily life, memory and historical legacy.
Anne Frank — short biography
The Wave — A Social Experiment
The Third Wave experiment closes the sequence by asking why conformity, obedience and group identity can make authoritarian movements attractive.
The Wave — short film
Lesson Plan — Third Wave documentary trailer