To incorporate writing and 21st Century Skills into the U.S. History curriculum, students assumed the role of author to create their first publication. Three historic topics were their target content in ERA 8: Cold War, Domestic Policy, and the Civil Rights Movement. Students used a free software program called Mixbook and several of the projects are listed below:
2016
We also experimented with some digital media. As you see below, we layered a picture on a wordcloud and put it into a poster using fotoflexer:-)