Decades Mural Project - Groups of students will work together to create murals depicting major events of each decade of the twentieth century beginning in the 1900's. They will also name their newspaper and create the by-line. They will discuss their date of birth by writing about the fashions, movies, television shows, sports, population, minimum wage, the mayor, president, and governor at that time. Students organize and graph data collected to display their findings. Ask students to select what they think are the key defining ideas, inventions or innovations of the 20th century.
Students organize and graph data collected to display their findings.
Using data collected have students write a persuasive essay about whether tax dollars should be used to ensure universal access to the Internet for all teenagers. Michigan Curriculum Framework and Benchmarks 2. The Greatest Generation , Random House, 1999. Events that Shaped the Century , Time Life Books, 1998. 5. The Ordinary Men and Women Who Made This Century , Times Books, 1998.