Have the class compile a list of all of the research topics examined.
Students brainstorm the themes that unite
several of the projects. For example, films of the 1920s, musical
films of the 1930s, women and the blues, swing dance, and vaudeville
all fit the theme of entertainment. The topics of doctors in World
War I, army nurses, the polio scare, and women nurses in the early
1900s, would fit a theme of health and medicine. Other possible themes
might be sports, domestic life in the 1940s, World War II, transportation,
or scientific advances.
Students with topics united by a common theme form groups and share their information.
- Each student group creates a Web page timeline including important events in their lives and the lives of their grandparents/elders, as well as important events and people of the period. See the timelines created by Urban School of San Francisco students for help.
- Assist students in using an HTML editor to
facilitate the creation of the Web page timelines.
- The timeline should be created in table format with three columns:
Dates (about 75 pixels wide), Images (about 175 pixels wide), and Annotations
or Descriptions (about 175 pixels wide).
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Sources of all images should be included.
Add the citation to the timeline when the image is found to avoid
the difficulty of relocating the citation information at a later time
(often very difficult on the changeable Web!).
Unite the timeline Web pages with a master index page that links
to the themed timelines.
Share the completed timelines with the class. Another idea is
to invite grandparents or elders to share the results of the project.
