The decades project that we were involved in a few weeks ago was not only a great learning experience for us, but it would also be a great learning experience for the students in your class! We started off by having a range of dates from the 1900's through the 1970's. We then formed our groups and started planning. From within the group it is a great experience to have to research and plan out what things you would like to include. For this particular day we were assigned that we had to see what life was all about in our decade in terms of: dance, music, people, inventions, disasters/ scandals , movies, books and historical events. This is something that you could change and have students focus on things that you were learning or things that would fit better with the standards that you would be going
over.
This in a way makes students an "expert" on their decade. This makes them feel important and to be able to share information that they have learned with their other classmates. When doing this project in a classroom it is also very important to have the students walk around and view all of the other presentations and decades. Have them ask questions and engage in conversation as if they really were from that period of time! You can have students create their presentation in any way that they would like, they could use a PowerPoint, a movie, a poster board or anything that they want to come up with to you. Getting the costumes to dress up may be one of the harder things but that is something that you as a teacher can help them to come up with. It is a great opportunity for learning and being creative but is also able to be adapted and changed to tailor your individual classroom! It will be an experience that I am sure none of your students will forget!!
This in a way makes students an "expert" on their decade. This makes them feel important and to be able to share information that they have learned with their other classmates. When doing this project in a classroom it is also very important to have the students walk around and view all of the other presentations and decades. Have them ask questions and engage in conversation as if they really were from that period of time! You can have students create their presentation in any way that they would like, they could use a PowerPoint, a movie, a poster board or anything that they want to come up with to you. Getting the costumes to dress up may be one of the harder things but that is something that you as a teacher can help them to come up with. It is a great opportunity for learning and being creative but is also able to be adapted and changed to tailor your individual classroom! It will be an experience that I am sure none of your students will forget!!
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