Revision for First Lesson Plan

For my first lesson, once I learned we would have to be teaching these at some point, I need to change my lesson activity a lot. Instead of it being 2 weeks long, since that is way to long, I decided this would take up two class periods. I will have the students doing research still, but instead of doing any out of class work, I will allow the entire lesson time to be devoted to the timeline activity. Students will still be working with groups, but they will be using the internet to gather data and pictures to do a visual timeline. It will still be about major events from the 1920s-present and they will still need to find at least 10-15 events. How I will change this is the students will need to find an event, get a picture that represents that event well (picture must be approved by me), and write up what that event was about, who was involved, and the outcome. They will then need to do that in a powerpoint fashion, then be able to print out the entire thing to be able to line it up in a timeline form. Hopefully this will work out better then the 2 week form.