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H8. Defining Moments/Decades

Description:
This lesson will help students develop a survey tool to investigate the defining moments of a decade.

To Teachers:

• Create groups of 3-4 students.
• Give each group a worksheet.

Materials:
Worksheet Word document | PDF

Worksheet Instructions:

• Create a survey instrument that will ask participants for general background information (age, sex, etc.) and have them rank order the defining moments of your assigned decade/topic.
• Go to EASE History -- http://www.easehistory.org/
• Search on Decade. [EASE History Historical Events>Decades]
• Select between 10 and 20 events that you think are the defining moments of the decade.
• Collect data. (Ask relatives, teachers, members of the community, fellow students.)
• Crunch the data.
• Represent data in multiple formats. (Bar graph, pie chart, etc.)

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