Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Bee's Knees of the 1920s

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This is a culminating activity to an American history unit on "The Roaring 20s." Middle schoolers will work in groups to research notable individuals from the 1920s and apply that knowledge to create a digital poster using Glogster. This...
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Canadian Museum of History

Cmc: The Last Best West: Advertising for Immigrants to Western Canada

For Students 9th - 10th
Government claims to lands in Western Canada was one matter but maintaining sovereignty over these lands was quite another. Sir John A Macdonald's approach to maintaining sovereignty in western Canada by not losing the land to American...
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University of Virginia

Miller Center at Uva: u.s. Presidents: Warren G. Harding: American Franchise

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about American culture and the culture of the Harding presidency in the beginning of the 1920s.
Activity
Other

For Many, One: Don't Fuss, Mother, This Isn't So Fast.

For Students 9th - 10th
Over the course of the 1920s, flappers became "modern young women." Trace the transformation by reading a series of ads from an ad campaign and seeing how even music changed minds.
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: A Consumer Economy

For Students 5th - 8th
The booming economy of the 1920s introduced new products and ways of paying for those products. Read about the increase in the kinds of household appliances, places to buy the appliances, and the financing of all those new consumer goods.
Handout
PBS

Pbs: People and Discoveries: Kdka Begins to Broadcast 1920

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from PBS details the history of radio and KDKA (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) the first radio station to offer programming. Mentions: advertising, NBC Radio, mass culture.