U.S. History Decades of the 20th Century Project Performance Task

Trying to play catch up with history at the end of the year? Cover the 1960’s, 1970’s, 1980’s and 90’s in 1 week with this detailed and guided research project. Students are to select a decade to research and create a historical style documentary to present the info to the class. This project is well organized and is broken down into 4 checkpoints with detailed steps and guidance on what to research. Also included is a grading rubric, group evaluation and a self-evaluation. Plan for 2 days research, 1 day storyboard, 1 day informational script, 1-2 days filming/creating and 1 day for presentations.