For that year, they design front page of a newspaper highlighting a specific event as well as other trends and movements. Can individually interview subjects, combine responses into a group product which showcases conclusions. They can put oral history interviews together into an audiotape. Students from other groups answer for the interview subject. Take turns using dice or playing cards to determine who will ask and who will answer questions next.
Colored chalk is needed here.
Have groups decorate the outside of their capsules to illustrate the sealed contents. Use the decoration sheet as an envelope for contents at the end of the class period so that coffee cans can be used again. Have each group create a map relevant to the topic of study which has a certain number of errors as well as most items correctly identified and labelled. They should indicate and labelled. They should indicate how many items are wrong and prepare a separate key.