Space Race: Mastery of Space during the Cold War

In this lesson, students will analyze a series of 11 images related to the space programs in both the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s. Students will create a story in pictures about the Space Race using 7 of the images along with a written paragraph of no more than 250 words explaining the importance of the images they chose within the context of the space race.