Activity for Lesson Plan

The activity that I have come up with will be for a 6th grade class. This will be a social studies lesson and will take about 2 weeks to complete. I am having the students create a video timeline of the 1920s-present. They will be working on this in groups and must first do research to come up with their ideas on the topics they want to cover. They must have at least 10-15 events to cover on their timeline. In order to have a better visual of what to look for, the students must hand in a written timeline first to show their events. These must be approved by me. The students can be as creative as they want with costumes, etc. While working in groups, pictures must be taken during their meeting time to show progress and assess the work they are doing. The overall assessment will be the video to see how well they understood the assignment along with how well they learned their history.