Roaring 20's

Introduction

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Welcome: To the Swinging Culture 

Description: Web Quest for Roaring 20's  

Grade Level: 9th-12th ACCESS

Curriculum: U.S. History 

Keywords: Normalcy, Demobilization, Disarmament, Isolationism, Laisses-faire , Capitalism, Communism, Anarchists, Red Scare, Prohibition, Speakeasies, Flappers, Mass Media, The Jazz Age, Harlem Renaissance, Expatriates                                   Author(s): Courtney Barnes

 

Introduction

As you enter the roaring 20's and begin to explore the many aspects of this time period, you will start hear jazz music in you and mind and think about Way of life in the 20's! You will be faced with the difficult challenges of what caused the economic boom? Who was responsible for these changes? Did everyone benefit from this economic boom? How do we get here? This WebQuest will help guide you to and through some of those questions. After using this WebQuest, it will enable you to determine the cause and effect of this time period through power points, graphic organizers, and quizzes.

Task

This lesson requires you to complete FIVE specific tasks:

Task 1: View The Roaring Twenties Visual Vocabulary PowerPoint, while taking notes using The Roaring Twenties Visual Vocabulary Organizer.

Task 2: Review the Economic Boom 1920s America in pervious power point, then independently take notes using L.A.C.K. P.A.N.T.S. organizer. Then click on the resource link under task 2 on process page. This will give you a more in depth look at our countries Economic Status in 1920.

Task 3: View The Roaring Twenties Key Figures PowerPoint, then independently work to complete The Roaring Twenties Key Figures Match Up worksheet.

Task 4: View Cause & Effects of the Roaring 20s PowerPoint then, work with a partner of your choice to complete effects of The Roaring Twenties organizer.

Task 5: Take The Roaring Twenties Quiz with your partner from task 4. 

Process

To begin, students will work independently on task 1-3. For task 4 and 5 students will work together to complete the task. 

Task 1: Open the link for The Roaring Twenties: Visual Vocabulary PowerPoint, then open the link for the The Roaring Twenties: Visual Vocabulary Organizer. Use the visual vocabulary organizer to actively take notes while studying the visual vocabulary PowerPoint.

The links for both are below:

The Roaring Twenties: Visual Vocabulary PowerPoint: Click here

The Roaring Twenties: Visual Vocabulary Organizer: Click here

 

Task 2: Use the same visual vocabulary PowerPoint from task 1 to study the LACK PANTS slides. Then you will complete the LACK PANTS work sheet to study the Economic Boom in 1920s America.  

Click here for the LACK PANTS Organizer.

Then click http://floridastudents.org/PreviewResource/StudentResource/150922 for more information and practice on the Economic Boom in 1920's. This is not a graded assignment but it will help you understand more in depth our countries Economic status during this time. 

 

Task 3: Open the link for The Roaring Twenties: Key Figures PowerPoint, then open the link for the Key Figures of The Roaring Twenties Match Up worksheet. Use the Key Figures PowerPoint to match up the Key Figures on the Match Up worksheet.

The links for both are below:

The Roaring Twenties: Key Figures PowerPoint: Click here

Key Figures of The Roaring Twenties Match Up: Click here

 

Task 4: Open the link for the Cause & Effects of the Roaring 20s PowerPoint. Then open The Roaring Twenties organizer and choose a partner of your choice to complete effects of The Roaring Twenties organizer.

The links for both are below:

Cause & Effects of the Roaring 20s PowerPoint: Click here

Effects of the Roaring 20s Organizer: Click here

 

Task 5: With the same partner from task 4 activity, open the link for The Roaring Twenties Quiz and complete the quiz together.  

The link for the quiz is below:

The Roaring Twenties Quiz: Click here

 

*Please download and save all documents: Visual Organizer, LACK PANTS Organizer, Key Figures Match Up worksheet, Effects Organizer, and The Roaring Twenties Quiz should all be printed out and turned in to me by the end of the week. Partner work should have both names on assignments and only 1 copy of the assignment should be turned in.* 

Evaluation

 

Assignment

You Almost Got it!

1

Just About There!

2

Way to Go!

3

WOW!

4

Score

%

Task 1

              3-5 definitions completed

             5-7                     definitions completed

              7-10                        definitions completed 

               15                      definitions completed 

15

Task 2

1-2 complete sentences 

2-4 complete sentences 

4-7 complete sentences 

All 9 letters completed with complete sentences. 

20

Task 3

1-3 correct matches

4-8 correct matches

9-13 correct matches

14-18 correct matches 

30

Task 4 & 5

1 out of 3 categories 

completion of quiz 

2 out of 3 categories 

completion of quiz 

3 out 3 categories 

completion of quiz 

3 out of 3 categories with complete sentences

completion of quiz with over 50% of the correct answers.

35

 

 

 

Conclusion

Resources Page

All links and resources listed on this page in order.