This is the second year that I have done the Gilded Age Project with a presentation with no words on the content slides. This year went better than the first in regards to warning students and discussing the point. More groups were prepared and managed to balance facts. It was interesting to see how the facts were divided up. Some were talking all of their facts and then their partner would go, while others shared facts every other.
My standard classes were allowed to have note cards with their facts. My honor's class was only allowed to have one note card for their group and no more than four words per line. It made sure that they remembered some of the facts for their own.
The point of the project is multi-tiered: group work = group communication, evaluation thinking about their contributions to the group versus other members of the group, presentation skills (working on getting over their public speaking fears), and then content - listening to the presentations and seeing more pictures, which are not the teacher seems to help resound the information further. The matching section on the test went well in regards to the people that were used for the project. The only flaw is that the presentations from the other classes were then mixed up and confused because they didn't have that additional retention in addition to the notes.
Basic Set Up:
-First Slide: Name of Person, Group Members Names, Picture of the Person
-Second Slide: "Upbringing" to label the slide, Standard - 3 pictures; Honor - 5 pictures
-Third Slide: "Adulthood" to label the slide, Standard - 3 pictures; Honor - 5 pictures
-Fourth Slide: "Gilded Age" to label the slide, Standard - 3 pictures; Honor - 5 pictures
-Sources
Now one thing to keep in mind, if they had a muckraker or someone that started off on a lower socioeconomic bracket may not have pictures from their childhood. Students needed to find pictures that REPRESENTED things in their lives and not necessarily actual pictures.
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