1920's and 1930's Learning!

Students learn about the Dust Bowl and its devastating effects on the geography and economics of the time.

Students learn about immigration through Angel Island and explore what a "Paper Son" is.  We used this awesome book to learn more!

Learning about the Great Depression with this picture book. Students learn content-specific vocabulary while following "Rudy" travel by train across the United States. 

Students are watching mini video clips learning about some important people and ideas post WWI:

Students read two articles from NewsELA that addresses the economics of life during the 1920s. It was considered the time of "buy now, pay later". With the introduction of the washing machine, the vacuum, and the refrigerator housework was lessened and free time increased.

Riddle Me This!

Students investigate a person or event in history and use the found information to write a riddle in first person.

Here are some examples of the riddles:

Here is the collection.  Students learned how to create a QR code that they linked to either an article or video about their historical person or event. The code was paired with their photograph.