Project Based Learning Grade 8

Project Based Learning Grade 8

Web Sites for Roaring 20s

http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/roaring_twenties.htm “The Roaring Twenties” includes links to many topics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Twenties “Roaring Twenties” includes links- note one is on minorities and homosexuals

http://www.1920-30.com “The 1920s- Roaring Twenties- The Nineteen Twenties in History” includes links to many topics

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1564.html “Roaring Twenties” links and off-site search results

http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Lane/6341/History/Roaring20s.html “Introduction to the Roaring Twenties” brief, includes 1920s slang, statistics, and labor strikes

http://library.thinkquest.org/C005846/The_1920/the1920.htm “The Roaring Twenties”-“The 1920s” brief

http://www.besthistorysites.net/USHistory_Roaring20s.shtml “U.S. History-Roaring 20s” includes lesson plans, activities

http://econ161.berkeley.edu/tceh/Slouch_roaring13.html “Roaring Twenties”- first chapter on mass production, consumption, and income

http://americanhistory.pppst.com/roaring20s.html “the Roaring Twenties” free presentations in powerpoint format, includes clipart, templates for powerpoints and games

http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/departments/hpolscrv/roar1.htm “The Roaring Twenties” links to African Americans, art & architecture, advertising, cinema, labor, politics, religion, society, sports

http://www.answers.com/topic/1920s includes video, link to newspaper articles but must be a paid member, Wikipedia- same info as 2nd website

http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/ERAS/20TH/1920s.html includes general history, crime & gangsters, baseball, music, cinema, fashion, prohibition, year by year

http://www.primarysourcelearning.org/teach/lq/013/index.htm includes teaching materials, online activities, can create an account- save Library of Congress links

http://www.jerichoschools.org/ms/library/social/roaring.html includes general resources, people of the 1920s, link to search tools designed for kids- kid info…school subjects

Kid Biz/Teen Biz Articles

“Looking for Amelia Earhart”

LMC Resources

Fads search

Feinstein, Stephen The 1900s, The 1910s, The 1920s, etc

Herald, Jacqueline Fashions of a Decade

Baker, Patricia Fashions of a Decade

Time Life Books The Roaring Twenties, 1920-1930

Prohibition search

Feinstein, Stephen The 1920s

Time Life Books The jazz age : the 20s

Time Life Books The Roaring Twenties, 1920-1930

Mafia search

Southwell, David Secret Societies

Women’s suffrage search

Susan B. Anthony video

Cooper, Ilene Susan B. Anthony

Landau, Elaine Women’s Right to Vote

Fritz, Jean You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?

Technology search

See print outs

Radio search

Kyvig, David E. Daily Life in the United States 1920-1939

The Wonder of Electricity video

Trains search

Coiley, John Train

Stille, Darlene R. Trains

Wood, Sydney Herbert Trains and Railroads

Assembly line search

McCarthy, Pat Henry Ford: building cars for everyone

Buckley, James Scholastic book of firsts

Video results for Roaring Twenties

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3svvCj4yhYc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SclJ94h2oyQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=684n8FO68LU&feature=related