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**PBL Projects - Social Studies**
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**Your name (s):Dougle Hankins** **Other Content area(s) (if applicable):** **Project title: Great Depression 2.0: A Reality Special** **Grade level: 9-10** **Project idea: Students will choose a Reality TV character and place them into various roles of The Great Depression and tell a story of how they would deal with the harshness of the time period.** **Driving Question: How would a Reality TV character survive the economic hardships of the Great Depression?** **Content: People in Society and History** **Student Product(s): Journal about not using a material device for a period of time, webpage or story board telling their story of their character, and a skit with 2-3 other students/characters describing the Great Depression**
 * 21st Century Skills to be taught and assessed: Collaboration, Communication, and critical thinking**


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 * Name: ****Michael Williams **
 * Title: ****4 ****days in the life of…….. **
 * Grade Level:** 10th grade
 * Idea:** Students will become a person from the 19th century. They will write four diary entries from 4 separate days in the life of their character. The diary entries will center on historic events that significantly affected their character because of their demographics/ ethnicity. Students will also create a representation of what they looked like. They will work in groups to complete this assignment.
 * Driving Question:** What significant 19th century historic events affected people of different demographics/ethnicities?
 * Content:** Industrialization, Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities, Participation, People in Societies.
 * 21st century Skills:** Critical thinking (Discovering significant historic events), Communication (group work, blog, movie) Collaboration (movie, character creation) Creativity (diary written from 19thcentury perspective, character creation) Technology Skills (blog, movie editing)
 * Product:** Diary entries will be posted in a blog, students will draw their character either digitally or by hand, Students will create final movie based on the life of their character.

**Your name (s): **Waylon Massie **Other Content area(s) (if applicable): **Public Speaking (?) **Project title: **Federalism and You! **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grade level: **12 AP Government **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Project idea: **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Working in Groups, s tudents will create a Common Craft-style video podcast on federalism, which is an important but somewhat dry topic. **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Driving Question: **How does federalism affect you, the student? **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Content: **Government, federalism, branches of government, citizenship rights and responsibilities, research skills, technology skills **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Student Product(s): **The main product will be a video podcast. I'd also like to have the kids blog weekly. If we branched out and let the kids do multiple topics, I'd probably ask them to create some sort of study guide highlighting the main points of their production.
 * 21st Century Skills to be taught and assessed:** I will work on Critical Thinking (how to research, focus on what's important) and Collaboration (group work). But I will assess Communication (how well does the video podcast convey the importance of federalism)