Decades of the 20th Century Project
For this project, you will be researching a historical aspect of one of the decades of the 20th Century. Each person in class will be assigned both a decade and a historical aspect to research. Everyone will be researching something unique; no two people will be researching the same thing. The information you research will be presented orally in class using Power Point.
Decades to Choose From:Aspects to Choose From:
2000-2009World History
1920-1929U.S. History
1930-1939Historical Figures
1940-1949Social History
1950-1959Sports History
1960-1969Crime and Justice History
1970-1979Women’s History
1980-1989Music History
1990-1999Literary History
You will draw numbers in class on ______. The person who draws number one will get to select their decade and aspect first, and then the other numbers will follow in turn. If you are not in class for the drawing, you will be randomly assigned a decade and aspect from those remaining in class. All research for this project will be done outside of class, and final project presentations will be during the week of ______.
For your presentation, you must use Power Point slides to present your information. You are required to have a minimum 12slides. Each of the required 12 slides MUST contain informational text; that is, you cannot have 12 slides with just pictures on them, though visuals are certainly helpful in keeping the audience’s attention. If you choose to have more than 12 slides, you may, but you may not have any more than 16 slides total. Keep in mind when you are making your slides that the best presentation slides do not contain a paragraph’s worth of text; the slides generally contain bullet points with names, topics, etc., which serve as the guidelines for the presenter’s comments. You should not have your entire presentation written out on your slideshow.
Remember to check your disk ahead of time; do not come to class on your presentation day and hope that your slideshow will work. You need to know that it is going to work, or else you will not have a grade for your presentation. No excuses will be acceptable—you must present your slideshow on your assigned presentation day.
The project will be worth a total of 150 points:
- 60 points for your slideshow (5 points per slide),
- 30 points for presentation skills (more creative slides and presentation will score more highly).
- 20 points will be given for notes on slides including citations.
- 40 points will be given for either an interactive activity with the class, or a group video reenactment (placed at end of PowerPoint). Reenactment should be five minutes.
- Text should be clear, concise, and to the point [don’t clutter a slide with more than 5 bulleted pieces of information]
- Sound is optional [if included, use sparingly and for special effect or mood].
- Animation also should be used for special effect or emphasis. Don’t go zooming or flying in everything on the slide [it should not distract from the information presented on that slide].
- You MUST add notes to all of the slides of a few sentences in length per slide. These notes should reflect the information that you would verbalize if giving an oral presentation or that you feel would add more background, explanation, or meaning to the slide, but that you don’t feel is important enough to emphasis on the slide itself. You must also cite where you got your information from. Use APA format and cite material at the bottom of your slide.
- This is not a “cut-and-paste” project!! Thought, research, and organization must be evident to obtain a high grade.
In order to prevent taking too much class time presenting, you will be presenting in groups instead of individually. Groups will be limited to 5 members. In the group presentation you will be asked to present 4 of your 12 slides. Therefore, you will have to do some selecting of the slides that you think are the most pertinent to your topic. This will also take some coordinating between group members. Your group presentation MUST be placed on one disk/flash drive. Preferably you would put it on a flash drive. You definitely want to check that it plays first before you present in class. Music must be saved in its own file to make it work.
Notes: Notes are to be placed on the bottom of each slide. They are additional thoughts, facts, etc. that you do not have room for on the slide itself. Each slide must also be sited. Where did you get your information from? You must use APA format.
At a minimum, include a slide with the complete References at the end of the presentation. Should be alphabetized.
For Example:
Sources: Smith, 2011; Sports Business Research Network, 2010