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Decades

Subjects

• Arts & Humanities
  --Language Arts
  --Dance, Music
  --Visual Arts
• Social Studies
  --History
  ----U.S. History

Grade

• 3-5
• 6-8
• 9-12

Brief Description

Teams of students present dramatizations, information about a decade of the 20th Century.

Objectives

Students

• work cooperatively.
• work creatively to produce dramatizations and other "displays" of information about their assigned decade.
• include in their presentations information about a range of events and ideas for the decade, including information about history, people, places, culture, technology

Keywords

century, decades, 20th century

Materials Needed

• a wide variety of available resources

Lesson Plan

After end-of-year tests are over and final grades are determined, why not introduce a project that will focus students on learning just for fun? For this "Decades" project, teams of students are assigned a decade in the 20th century. Their job is to learn about the people, places, events, and things that represent that decade. Challenge students to get creative as their group creates a 10-minute presentation about their assigned decade. Their presentations might take many formats, including displays, dramatizations, poems, interviews (real or created) that provide information about events and ideas of the decade, including information about history, people, places, culture, technology

Assessment

If this activity is used as an end-of-year project, assessment is not essential. Assessment might be very informal; for example, each student might share/write 1) what s/he liked best about each presentation and 2) one critique of each presentation.

Lesson Plan Source

Education World

Submitted By

Gary Hopkins

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