Brief Description

Students will be given the opportunity to look at different web sites, evaluate them, rate them, and make decisions about the accuracy and relevance of each web site.  After evaluating the web sites, students will be asked to use the accurate information to create a presentation about life and music in the 1930’s.

Standards and Frameworks

Technology Standards

• 5T-E2: Evaluate the accuracy, relevance, appropriateness, comprehensiveness, and bias of electronic information sources.

• 3AM-E3: Analyze and demonstrate the use of the elements of music (e.g., in live and recorded performance, verbal discussion)

Academic

• Students will analyze how historical events influence the type of music that is created and how the music reflects the particular moods and feelings.

• Students will evaluate the accuracy, relevance, appropriateness, comprehensiveness, and bias of Internet sources.

Evaluation form, Internet accessibility, URL address

Procedures

Divide students into groups of 4-5.  Explain that at the end of the unit, each group will be responsible for a class presentation related to the music and history of the 1930’s, and a discussion of the web site's appropriateness used to create their presentation.

Have the students take a webquiz to see how literate they are in Internet based research, located at http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/infosrv/lue/webwizard/quiz.htm.

Have each group access and evaluate these web sites using the Web Evaluation Form.  Then use these sites if  they are appropriate to create a classroom presentation about how events in history and peoples daily lives influences music.

The Great Depression
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/depress.html

American Exodus
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/PRINT/document/exodus/exodus.html

Migrant worker http://store.corbis.com/prodconfig/image_details.asp?pg=1&search=migrant+mother&refid=search&fp=1&imageid=10111621

Music of the railroad singer
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/sfeature/chord.html

Blues and gospel
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ftvhtml/ftvhome.html

Fiddle tunes
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/hrhtml/hrhome.html

Jazz time line
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/jazz1930.htm

Assessment

Students will achieve both objectives through discussion, written assessments, and classroom presentation.

Teacher Name: Marcie Marshall/Young
Site: Rio Vista
Date Submitted: April 9, 2002