Today, we learned about the Roaring 20s and the advance of air travel as a technology. I LOVE flying, and used to work at the airport in Portland! Photo taken at St. Maarten in the Caribbean in 2009.
Dear class,
Hello again! We continued our work with innovation in the United States, specifically during the "Roaring" 1920s. Here's what happened in class today:
Hello again! We continued our work with innovation in the United States, specifically during the "Roaring" 1920s. Here's what happened in class today:
Learning Targets Addressed:
KNOWLEDGE ALT 8: I can identify how technological knowledge and innovation shapes a society, place, or region.
AGENDA 2/11/2020:
News Brief - Michael
Roaring 20s
Air Travel
Work Time
News Brief: Michael had the news brief today and selected an article about this story to talk about: WashingtonPost.com - Nazi flag displayed in high school window prompts anger — and an investigation. After discussing the story, we also checked in to see if anyone was up to anything interesting or fun outside of class.
Henry was assigned to do the next news brief.
Today's Black History Month fact is that on February 12, 1909 (111 years ago, tomorrow): the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded.
I also passed back grades from the American Dream Revisited unit Socratic Seminar. If you missed class for the day of the seminar, the expectation is that you make up the assignment by writing a reflection (I passed out the prompt for this in class). If you would like to revise your Socratic Seminar preparation packet and resubmit for a better grade, you are welcome to!
As part of the news brief, we also watched the one minute BBC World News update. Here's the link to see the latest one minute update, at any time of day (it will probably be different from what we watched in class):
Henry was assigned to do the next news brief.
Today's Black History Month fact is that on February 12, 1909 (111 years ago, tomorrow): the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded.
I also passed back grades from the American Dream Revisited unit Socratic Seminar. If you missed class for the day of the seminar, the expectation is that you make up the assignment by writing a reflection (I passed out the prompt for this in class). If you would like to revise your Socratic Seminar preparation packet and resubmit for a better grade, you are welcome to!
As part of the news brief, we also watched the one minute BBC World News update. Here's the link to see the latest one minute update, at any time of day (it will probably be different from what we watched in class):
Roaring 20s: Last class, I went through most of this PowerPoint with the class as students took notes:
We finished the presentation in class, and made a summary of notes (using the Cornell Notes process).
Air Travel: Next, I showed students how air travel in the 1920s made many rapid advances and became a mode of transportation for people who could afford it:
As a part of this, I told everyone about my fondness for this invention, while showing my FlightMemory map of places I have visited via air travel. Here was the worksheet that was due in class about the innovation of air travel (especially as it relates to United States geography):
This should have been fairly straightforward for everyone - the advance of air travel made it MUCH quicker to get from place to place in the United States.
Work Time: Finally, at the end of class, I gave students work time and explained some of my favorite websites for finding great airline deals! Here is the presentation that I went through and tried to guide students with:
DISCLAIMER: This information may be out of date - I take no responsibility for any use of this. It is just to help think creatively about air travel (as people in the 1920s were definitely doing)!
Aviation is such an amazing innovation! See you next class!
DISCLAIMER: This information may be out of date - I take no responsibility for any use of this. It is just to help think creatively about air travel (as people in the 1920s were definitely doing)!
Aviation is such an amazing innovation! See you next class!
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