The Decades

For the grand finale of our semester, our social studies methods class worked together in teams to present a Decades Project. Each group had selected a different decade, so that when we were done we had one group presenting the 1920's, the 1940's, the 1950's, the 1960's, and the 1970's.

 Groups researched their decades and were responsible for creating a PowerPoint, a poster, timeline or tri-fold, gathering artifacts that represented culture and history, and using authentic sound, video, and costume. Groups also created an activity and an assessment related to their decade.

One of the benefits of this project was that we were not only researching a time in history, but we were immersing ourselves in it. Another benefit was that were were able to learn from the presentations of our peers, and in the end discover much about the 20th century.