AMERICAN HISTORY:WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE:STUDY OF 20TH CENTURY WITH POWERPOINT

A FUN WAY TO STUDY 20TH CENTURY PEOPLE AND EVENTS!

Save yourself hours and hours of planning with this all-in-one, ready-to-use lesson.

Students will love this study! This lesson engages students with the incorporation of music, collaboration, and student autonomy and choice. All lessons can be modified for grades 6-12 to meet the learning abilities and levels of the students you teach, from class to class or year to year.

Through this lesson, students will view a PowerPoint and use the Bingo Listening Guide as the introduction to the lesson, Students will experience Billy Joel's 1989 Hit: We Didn't Start The Fire which depicts major events and people who influence the 20th Century. Then they will move on to continue to work in collaborative groups choosing which person or event from the 20th Century they wish to study, using the 20th Century Timeline Event Cards. Students will participate in research and a class presentation, then posting their events on the wall to create a timeline of events.

This lesson took 15+ hours to plan, design, and tweaked.

INCLUDES

· Introduction PowerPoint (54 slides with music that can be removed)

· Detailed written instruction for the teacher: Introduction, procedure, wrap-up and
more!

· PowerPoint Bingo Listening Guides (3 variations)

· Copies of Song Lyrics - copies for groups

· Sound system to play the song by American Musician Billy Joel: We Didn’t Start the
Fire. The song can be easily found on YouTube

· 20th Century Timeline Event Cards (People & Events)

· Research material and access to theInternet

· Tape - used to place the notecards on the walls of the classroom in the form of a
timeline.

· Grading Rubric

· Exit Cards

And More!