PROJECT-BASED+LESSON


 * PROJECT-BASED LESSON: **
 * Goal: **
 * 1) To understand how industrialization led to significant changes in the economic patters for producing, distributing, and consuming goods and services.
 * 2) To explain how societies and nations attempt to satisfy their basic needs and wants by utilizing scarce capital, natural and human resources.
 * 3) To define basic economic concepts such as scarcity and supply and depend markets recourses and economic growth.
 * 4) To understand how people in the United States are both produces and consumers of goods and services.

How was Big Business and Corporations good and bad? Do Now- Explain the meaning behind of the quote: //"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain." // - Activity- Short lecture with Graphic organizer on Big Business (Positives and Negatives) - Activity- Speed Dating Important People - Exit Ticket—Pick the person you enjoyed learning about today and you will complete the Project Based Leaning assignment.
 * __Lesson Overview: __**

- **Important People: ** John O’SullivanFrederick Jackson TurnerThomas EdisonAndrew CarnegieSamuel GompersJohn D. RockefellerJ. P. MorganTheodore RooseveltHenry FordWilliam Howard TaftWoodrow Wilson

<span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif';">- Homework Assignments: <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif';">- <span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Students MUST use notes from class, the textbook and atleaste ONE other outside resources ( <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">CQ Researcher, Credo Reference, Oxford Reference Online, Country Watch, ect) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">When students complete this project they will be able to: Empathize with the leaders of the Gilded Age. They will have a better understanding of how Big Business effected American during the Progressive Era.
 * <span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Students will pick ONE key person- write a relating speech detailing the person's ideology <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> AND <span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif';">they will then record it on voice thread.
 * <span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">OR Make a campaign poster using Glogster
 * <span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">OR Write a memoir-- make slides—story book stuff
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">PBL Objectives __****<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">: **

__<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Project Outcomes: __<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Students will either hand in a Glogster, a digital story, or a voice thread. (Students can also be creative and pick something else as long as it’s an appropriate technology.)
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Assessment Tool: __**<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The Student will be assessed based on the quality of Homework they turn in. They will have this assignment to do over a weekend. They will be encouraged to be as creative as possible.