A Web quest discovering the 1920s

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The Roaring 20s

• A Web quest discovering the 1920s
• The 1920s was the decade that changed America
  forever. After the end of the Great War, the
  United States enjoyed a time of great prosperity
  and incredible change. In this journey, you will
  gain a sense of what the 1920s was like and why
  this decade is considered one of the greatest in
  American History.

By Thomas Puentes
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Introduction

• The 1920s was an incredible time. It was a time
  when tired and war weary souls were looking for
  peace and the chance to live again. The great
  American war machine developed for the conflict
  in Europe was now converted into a manufacturing
  giant that made domestic gizmos. What were the
  latest inventions that would shape our society to
  the present time? How were people entertained?
  What were the fades and what were some of the
  social problems facing the US at this turning
  point in our history? In this web quest we are
  going to explore the 1920s and attempt to answer
  these and other questions by seeking them out on
  the web. By the end of this project, we will all
  know more than we do now about that marvelous
  time known as the roaring 20s

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Tasks

• Create a three sided display brochure showing
  your research about the 1920s.There must be five
  sections on the poster.
• 1. People
• 2. Innovations
• 3. Social issues
• 4. Significant events
• 5. Cultural Particularities
• There should be at least 4 graphics or pictures
  as well.

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Task

• In this web quest you will search the websites
  already selected and find out information about
  the 1920s. Find two interesting people and
  discuss who they were and what made them so
  interesting. Discover two new innovations or
  inventions that were unique to this decade one
  social problem relating to politics, racial, or
  religious issues two significant events or
  trends that occurred during this decade, and
  also, discuss one or two cultural particularities
  relating to literature, music or art unique to or
  originating in the 20s. (click on next page
  below)

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To do this assignment, you will need to use
Microsoft Word and a brochure template. You will
also get the template handout to sketch out where
you will place all your information. First, use
this web quest to get all your information. Be
sure not to cut and paste anything. Go to the
sites, jot down some information by hand on your
handout and then go to another site to get more.
When you are done you will have enough info to
fill one part of your brochure. When you have
obtained something for each of the five
categories you can begin to create your brochure
on the computer. Next, go to Microsoft Word and
follow the directions of the brochure making
handout sheet. (Click on Process below)
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Process
Day 1 Getting started
Days 2 and 3 1st day of research
Day 4 Put it all together
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Day 1Getting Started

• This is a four day research project. The first
  day you should get acquainted with this web
  quest. Click around on the bottom buttons to see
  where they take you. Be sure you have both
  handouts and you understand what the assignment
  is. You will also want to go to Word and
  understand how to obtain a brochure template so
  that when you are ready you will have no trouble
  filling the information you found into your final
  project. Finally you may want to create a folder
  and have a floppy disk to save your information
  in order to make it easy to put all your
  information together in the end. But remember
  that the handouts with all your found information
  must be turned in with the final report.
• Go to day 2

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Day 2 Day 3Research Part A

• this is where you start your research. As you
  can see, you have the five categories below.
  Click on each of these to get the information you
  need to fill your rough draft. Most of these
  sites will allow you to save pictures so you can
  put them in your brochure. You will need to save
  them on your disk as well as jot them down on
  your handouts and all other info as well for your
  finished product. Take out your handout to begin
  your research and click on people first.

People Innovations Social Issues
Events Cultural
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People

• About three interesting people
• Who were they and what made them famous?
• When were they born and when did they die?
• Could they have led the same lives today or how
  would their lives be different? E.g., what do
  you think they would have done today?
• Did they affect the culture in the 20s or how
  did they change life in their time?
• As a general question, what do historians mean
  when they call the people of this time the Lost
  Generation?
• Remember, try not to focus only on the bad guys.
• Here are some websites you can look into
• Women in the 1920s Search this web site for
  significant women who made a difference in the
  1920s.
• Kingwood College Library Scroll down this sight
  and you will find tons of info about many
  interesting individuals. Choose a couple of
  these and see what you can find out about them
• Wikipedia Im sure you have heard of this on line
  encyclopedia. Its not exactly authoritative but
  you will still find some good info wnce you know
  the person you are researching.

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Innovations

• Questions for Innovations
• What was the new innovation and who came up with
  it?
• How popular was this innovation?
• Was American life affected by this innovation?
• Are we still affected by this innovation? How?
• Some interesting sites for innovations are,
• The History people
• Enchanted Learning
• And try Anglefire All of these site will give
  you a good idea of the kinds of inventions and
  innovations created in the 1920s..

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Social Issues

• What political, racial or religious movements
  were popular in the 20s?
• What was going on between Black and White
  America?
• Who were the Ku Klux Klan and how prominent were
  they?
• What were the Knights of America all about? What
  were they really concerned about?
• What is Fascism and why this growing movement in
  certain countries?
• What is Communism and why would America fear this
  political system
• Remember these are guiding questions that you can
  use to research the social issues of that time.
  They do not have to all be answered but you can
  use them to help you look into some of these
  issues. Some helpful links are the following.
• American Experience On this site you can find
  info on racism, fundamentalism, and other social
  trends.
• University of Chicago Library You will find a
  number of issues here that you can begin research
  on.
• Social Work History Station You will find a few
  good ideas here.
• Greg Feldmeth This site has good summaries.
  (Feldmeth, Greg D. "U.S. History Resources"
  http//home.earthlink.net/gfeldmeth/USHistory.htm
  l (31 March 1998)).

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Events

• What particular events happened and how did these
  come about?
• Did this event have a lasting influence on
  American thinking or life?
• What could it have been like had this event not
  occurred?
• How did this event come about and what was the
  outcome at the end?
• What was significant about this event?
• Here are some sites that might help you find
  particular events of the 20s and some background
  info on them as well
• Hyper History Online This site contains a number
  of individuals and their brief biographies. You
  can choose one of these and tell about why they
  are important enough to be remembered in History.
  You would of course add to what you find here
  with info found in other sources.
• Digital History The Sacco and Vanzetti Case, the
  Stock Market Crash the Scopes Monkey trial and
  other events of the 20s are here. Find the
  event alphabetically.
• The Web Virtual Library You can go to this site
  for all categories. I set these sites only for
  the 1920s but there is a lot more to see if you
  just look around these sites.

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Cultural Particularities

• What was going on in the Black community during
  the 1920s (Think music).
• In what way did African American culture affect
  American culture in general?
• What liberties were women seeking, how did women
  express themselves?
• What was a flapper, a bluenose or a Dry.?
• What did Americas prosperity do change American
  daily life?
• What was the apparel like?
• What kind of music did the people in the 1920s
  enjoy?
• How did the automobile change American culture?
• What were some of the crazy things people were
  doing to pass the time?
• The Lawless Decade You will find a wealth of
  information here on Music, Sports, Dance, Poets,
  the Radio, Crime and Women. Click on the index
  and within each year you will find articles
  a-plenty. Remember, you only need two here so
  dont get overwhelmed.
• Alexander Hajnal More great info for you.
• Remember, keep your focus and keep looking for
  one thing at a time.

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Day 4Put it All Together

• Now that you have collected all the information
  you need and you have selected a template for
  your brochure, and you have sketched out how you
  want everything to be placed, you can go ahead
  and put it all together.

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Day 5 6Put it all together

• These two days are dedicated to you bringing your
  research, clip art, and pictures, together to
  make a fantastic brochure that you can showcase
  for the class.

Photograph courtesy of American Memory at the
Library of Congress.
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Evaluation

• The first thing I will be looking for is how
  thoroughly you followed the instructions. Did
  you cover all five topics? Next I will be looking
  at the quality of your research. Did you find
  information from more than one source on each
  topic?
• Ill also be looking for an attractive finished
  product. I want to be drawn to your brochure so
  make it interesting, colorful and neat. Dont
  try to hide lack of work with large fonts or big
  empty spaces. Your brochure should not use any
  font bigger than 12 except the headings which can
  be size 20 or less. And not too many pictures
  (maybe 2 or at most 3 and no larger than 1.5
  inches square.
• You should give credit to where you got all your
  research, therefore, I will be looking for your
  references in either a bibliography or on the
  poster or in each of the reports as footnotes.
  You can easily do this by noting the names I put
  on the links and then highlighting the address
  that you can paste after the name in your
  bibliography.
• Study the Rubric on the next page.

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Conclusion

• So. What have we learned about the 1920s?
• Why would the 1920s be called the Roaring
  20s? What made this decade roar?
• Was it the people? The politics? What was
  changing the culture and daily life?
• How did the 20s change America?

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Teacher

• Author Thomas Puentes, student
  Contact tpuentes_at_sbcglobal.net
• California State University
• EDIT 430, Professor E. Viau Please note this
  info is for the cooperative version and not for
  the individual study version which utilizes a
  computer generated brochure as final the final
  product produced by the student. Basic info
  however is the same.
• Contact me if you want a team project instead.
• Purpose of this WebQuest This is a cooperative
  learning experience for students in their
  Sophomore or Junior years in High School US
  History. Students will research various topics
  related to the 1920s on the internet. After
  they have researched the topics they are to
  collaborate with one another to decide which
  aspects of their work will go into the final
  product. This process will allow all students
  the benefit of learning all aspects of the 20s.
  Their product will be a three sided display
  poster exhibiting all work and graphics.
• Standards  1.  Understands how urban life
  changed in the 1920's.      
• 2.  Understands the rise of a mass culture in
  the 1920's.
• 3.  Understand the various social conflicts
  that took place in the early 1920's 4. 
  Understands changes in the social and cultural
  life of American society in the 1920s 5. 
  Understands change in attitudes toward women in
  the post World War 6.  Understands the major
  social issues of 1920's America.  7.  Understand
  the impact of new cultural movements on
  the American society in the 1920's.  8. 
  Understands how political issues in the
  1920's influenced American society.
• This list of standards is from another webquest
  written by Jim Norman  http//www.pcsb.k12.fl.us
  /teachnet/jnorman/20.htm (Copy and paste this to
  go to site).
• Rubric The rubric I used was adapted from one
  provided by http//teach-nology.com/ This is a
  wonderful site for teachers providing a world of
  helps and tools available for a nominal
  membership price.

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• Teaching Notes
• Unit Time Frame Six days
• Organizing Unit Question How did the 1920s
  change America?
• Outline
• This activity should follow whatever is done in
  class to cover the decade of the 1920s whether
  that be through the History textbook or
  worksheets teacher already provides for this
  unit. This way students will have a baseline of
  information from which to build upon.
• Day 1
• This day is very important for the teacher to
  monitor. The important thing to remember is
  that the students will be researching only two
  of the five areas of study. Students cannot
  pick and choose the topics because order is
  important for the topics to overlap. The order
  is as follows
• Student 1 People and innovations
• Student 2 Innovations and Social Issues
• Student 3 Social Issues and Significant Events
• Student 4 Significant Events and Cultural
  Particularities
• Student 5 Cultural Particularities and People.
• When the work is assigned students can begin
  looking into the sites I have provided and any
  other sites that they may find on their own. At
  this point it is important to remind the
  students that they must resist topics that may
  be of interest in the second part of their
  research but not part of the present search.

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• Outline (cont.)
• Day 2
• On this day the students will continue the
  research they started yesterday. They are
  looking for information about the first part of
  their assignment. They should keep a running log
  of the sites that they go to and the information
  that they are gathering about their topic. Again
  they must gather information on three different
  elements within their topic so that when they
  begin collaboration they can discuss these three
  items and compare them with the three items the
  second student is researching. In the end they
  will decide what three among their collective six
  will be the best fit for the final product.
• Day 3
• This day will be like the first but the
  students will now research the second assignment.
  Once the students feel that they have gathered
  enough information and enough graphics they can
  begin organizing their data, photos and graphics
  as well as making sure that they have the
  references for all information gathered. This
  will make it easier for referencing later on. It
  would be best for students to have their own
  bibliography at the end of each report.
  Otherwise, One person will have the task of
  compiling all references onto one unified
  bibliography. You can assign a student for this
  task in each team but this should account for
  some extra credit.
• Day 4
• Collaboration day. Students sit together and
  share what they have learned. Beginning with
  people the students divulge all information
  they gathered. Votes are taken to determine
  which of the six items will be used for the
  poster. The students continue this process until
  all have been decided. Next, the students must
  begin writing their essays. The information is
  already provided but now who will write each
  element must be decided. Each student has
  basically two choices about which to write about.
  If both students want to write about
  innovations for example then the two students
  must flip a coin or something. The students have
  the evenings of day 4 and day 5 to complete their
  250 word papers.
• Day 5
• This day is dedicated to the students creating
  their poster. Layout, positions of subjects and
  articles as well as the style of titles and fonts
  are made. This is a good day for the students to
  search the web for extra graphics and photos to
  fill the poster. They can also decorate the
  poster with borders and designs. If there are
  any concerns from the teacher this would be a
  good time to bring them up.

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• Sound clips The Jazz Age Page http//www.btintern
  et.com/dreklind/threetwo/Jazzhome.htm
• Video Clip Like television
• http//tesla.liketelevision.com/
• There was a fee for this cartoon and for a bit
  more a month one can download many other clips.

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