EDFS- 326      UNIT PORTFOLIO

 
 The student will demonstrate an understanding of the economic boom-and- bust in America in the 1920s and 1930s, its resultant political instability, and the subsequent worldwide response.  

                             Based on the South Carolina State Standard Indicators USHC 7.1- 7.5

                                                  This porfolio demonstrates at least 6 different type of technology

Technology items in this particular unit plan represent a diverse way of teaching and lead to divergent methods for assessing and planning as outlined in the Backwards Design model for planning.

USHC-7-1

Explain the social, cultural, and economic effects of scientific innovation and consumer financing options in the 1920s on the United States and the world, including the advent of aviation, the expansion of mass production techniques, the invention of new home appliance, and the role of transportation in changing urban life.

Students will build a graphic organizer on the Teacher’s specific content herein. 

 

Use texts, photographs, and documents to observe and interpret aviation trends and create a PowerPoint on your favorite aviator in this time period.  My example was Charles Lindberg

  Technology item (Graphic Organizer) description and direction of use and how I and the students will use it

Technology Item (Internet research) description and direction of use and how I and the students will use it

 

USHC-7.2

Explain cultural responses to the period of economic boom-and-bust, including the Harlem Renaissance; new trends in literature, music, and art; and the effects of radio and movies.

 

The development of Jazz.  Students will  use lime wire, CD,s, and other recordable music resources to create Audio files and build an Audio portfolio on a media flash drive  

Students can use this source as a start in their research for Jazz Era Music
While students are building this portfolio, students will pick an even on a SmartBoard time line they create.  This event will be linked to a particular piece of music.  The music will help you remember the event.

I can bring in a Turntable that will record Vinyl records to digital files.
 

Select two literary works of the 1920’s, one representing the Harlem Renaissance and a second by someone other than African American author. 

Compare and contrast the themes of their works in an ms word document essay.  What were the author’s purposes in writing these works?  Do the works reflect the social history of the Jazz Age?

 Technology item (Audio Portfolio) description and direction of use and how I and the students will use it

Technology item (Smart Board) description and direction of us and how I and the students will use it.

 



 

 

USHC-7.3

Explain the causes and effects of the social conflict and change that took place during the 1920s, including the role of women and their attainment of the right to vote, the “Red Scare” and the Sacco and Vanzetti case, the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, immigration quotas, Prohibition, and the Scopes trial.

 

 

Prohibition on the High Seas off the East Coast of the United States. 

 Using my specific lesson plan RUM WAR AT SEA

 Use the Internet to find information on vessel seizures by the Coast Guard and build an Excel Spread Sheet explaining the date seized, tonnage, and what became of the vessel’s future use.

 Students will listen to VHF radio

Broadcast and collect current wind and sea conditions Excel spread sheet. Given the current information,students are to finish the spreadsheet.

Students will locate where some of these conditions are on a nautical chat of Charleston Harbor and its approaches.  Students will locate “Rum Row” using dividers. 


As a seperate exercise, students may see  if they have what it takes to survive the Roaring Twenties. Students will take tuns to find out, select the role of a man or woman.  I have built a  SmartBoard Presentation. as an example.  I am playing the part of a person seeking a job as  newpaper reporter in Chicago in 1925.

You can visit different places while you progress through the SmartBoard Presentation you build. In each, you will have to choose the appropriate type of clothing to wear, or determine which is the best way to react to a given situation.  

You win or lose points depending on your answers to questions your classmates will ask.  You can accumulate up to a total of 1,000 points, 500 per character.

Each character's progress will be displayed on the white board  in the upper right corner. Students create their own character.

To select a new place, you can go through the SmartBoard slides at any time by clicking on the BACK arrow located at the top of the screen.
Beware! If you quit a place before you answer all the questions, you will lose all the points you accumulated there.
And, once you answer all the questions related to a place, be aware that its entry will be permantly recorded.

Technology item (SmartBoard) description and direction of use and how I and the students will use
it.

Technology item (Seized vessels) description and direction of use and how I and the students will use
it.

Technology item
(Weather assessment) description and direction of use and how I and the students will use it


Technology item (PowerPoint) description and direction of use and how I and the students will use it

Technology item (VHF Radio, Dividers) description and direction of use and how I and the students will use it



 

USHC-7.4

Explain the causes and effects of the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, including the disparity in incomes, limited government regulation, stock market speculation, and the collapse of the farm economy; wealth distribution, investment, and taxes; government policies and the Federal Reserve System; and the effects of the Depression on human beings and the environment.

 

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As a child of today, write a letter in a  documentto a school child of the Depression and tell him about technology changes that will occur in the future and how life in general is different now than it was then.

 Students are to read letters to the class

Technology item (ms word)description and direction of use and how I and the students will use it

Technology item (streamline vedio) description and direction of use and how I and the students will use it

USHC-7.5

Compare the first and second New Deals as responses to the economic bust of the Great Depression, including the rights of women and minorities in the workplace and the successes, controversies, and failures of recovery and reform measures such as the labor movement. 

 

Students will listen to a Internet recording of a “Fireside chat” and write a response letter

 

Students will create a Wikki comparing the political beliefs of  Hoover and Roosevelt and analyze how these beliefs affected their approaches to the Great Depression.  


Students will prepare a 1920’s Test.  Questions will be aligned to the South Carolina support document.  In the multiple choice answers, students will create Vin Diagrams and choose among pictures and vocaubulary to classyfy key ideas of the 1920's and 1930's.  

Technology item (smartboard) description and direction of use and how I and the students will use it

Technology item ( Wikki ) description and direction of use and how I and the students will use it