Hello, and welcome back to my blog post! In my last blog post I talked about the teaching fifth and sixth graders about the Roaring 20s using the book, What Were the Roaring Twenties? by Michele Mortlock. The lesson plan my partner and I came up with was a powerpoint presentation to introduce what the Roaring 20s were, the assigned book, and finally to wrap this lesson together, a poster project included with a timeline. We will gear our teaching tool toward Gardner’s visual-spatial intelligence. This intelligence is great for learners that like to look at the pictures and watch videos to direct their learning. 

The successes my partner and I had during this research process was finding the facts and pictures for this project. The facts and pictures made the students engaged in this topic, as well as in the project they are assigned. I discovered that the kids were engaged by the pictures and videos, and they enjoyed the poster project. They seem to have a better understanding when the lesson is fun and enjoyable. Some challenges that my partner and I faced during this lesson included finding a way to limit the facts about everything that happened, just because during the 20s, so much happened. We wanted to keep the facts to a minimum for when the kids learn more in higher education. We worked around this by keeping each event we picked during the 20s down to four facts. I learned that our main text is a great way to introduce the topic of the Roaring 20s; this book has illustrations and photographs at the end so our students were able to see, visually, how life was different then. This aspect of the book influenced us to target visual-spatial intelligence into our web tool. While teaching this lesson about the Roaring 20s, my partner and I did not face frustrations; we enjoyed teaching this topic and the students enjoyed learning this topic.