Project Based Learning Grade 8
Web Sites for Roaring 20s
http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/roaring_twenties.htm “The Roaring Twenties”
includes links to many topics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Twenties “Roaring Twenties” includes links- note
one is on minorities and homosexuals
http://www.1920-30.com “The 1920s- Roaring Twenties- The Nineteen Twenties in
History” includes links to many topics
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1564.html “Roaring Twenties” links and off-site
search results
http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Lane/6341/History/Roaring20s.html “Introduction
to the Roaring Twenties” brief, includes 1920s slang, statistics, and labor strikes
http://library.thinkquest.org/C005846/The_1920/the1920.htm “The Roaring Twenties”“The 1920s” brief
http://www.besthistorysites.net/USHistory_Roaring20s.shtml “U.S. History-Roaring
20s” includes lesson plans, activities
http://econ161.berkeley.edu/tceh/Slouch_roaring13.html “Roaring Twenties”- first
chapter on mass production, consumption, and income
http://americanhistory.pppst.com/roaring20s.html “the Roaring Twenties” free
presentations in powerpoint format, includes clipart, templates for powerpoints and
games
http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/departments/hpolscrv/roar1.htm “The Roaring
Twenties” links to African Americans, art & architecture, advertising, cinema, labor,
politics, religion, society, sports
http://www.answers.com/topic/1920s includes video, link to newspaper articles but must
be a paid member, Wikipedia- same info as 2nd website
http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/ERAS/20TH/1920s.html includes general history, crime &
gangsters, baseball, music, cinema, fashion, prohibition, year by year
http://www.primarysourcelearning.org/teach/lq/013/index.htm includes teaching
materials, online activities, can create an account- save Library of Congress links
http://www.jerichoschools.org/ms/library/social/roaring.html includes general resources,
people of the 1920s, link to search tools designed for kids- kid info…school subjects
Kid Biz/Teen Biz Articles
“Looking for Amelia Earhart”
LMC Resources
Fads search
Feinstein, Stephen The 1900s, The 1910s, The 1920s, etc
Herald, Jacqueline Fashions of a Decade
Baker, Patricia Fashions of a Decade
Time Life Books The Roaring Twenties, 1920-1930
Prohibition search
Feinstein, Stephen The 1920s
Time Life Books The jazz age : the 20s
Time Life Books The Roaring Twenties, 1920-1930
Mafia search
Southwell, David Secret Societies
Women’s suffrage search
Susan B. Anthony video
Cooper, Ilene Susan B. Anthony
Landau, Elaine Women’s Right to Vote
Fritz, Jean You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?
Technology search
See print outs
Radio search
Kyvig, David E. Daily Life in the United States 1920-1939
The Wonder of Electricity video
Trains search
Coiley, John Train
Stille, Darlene R. Trains
Wood, Sydney Herbert Trains and Railroads
Assembly line search
McCarthy, Pat Henry Ford: building cars for everyone
Buckley, James Scholastic book of firsts
Video results for Roaring Twenties
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3svvCj4yhYc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SclJ94h2oyQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=684n8FO68LU&feature=related