History Vacation Project

You are creating a vacation plan You may create a poster, a PowerPoint/YouTube, a Padlet Bulletin Board or a folded booklet/brochure. You will research the cost of the trip, hotels to stay in, and places or events to visit. You must visit at LEAST three historically relevant sites and explain how those sites are related to our US History learning. You will turn in a rubric with your final project.

Inspiration Look at books, images, the city’s website, travel sites to get ideas of things to do or experience while in a location. Review the time periods we’ve studied to get ideas: Civil War (all over the US, battlefields, museums, etc) Industrial Revolution/Gilded Age (major cities, Fat Cat mansions and extreme hotels) Progressive Era- (immigration stations, large city buildings) WW1- European battle fields, US war memorials, battleships Roaring 20s- Harlem, Jazz Clubs Great Depression- Dust Bowl farming areas, NY Stock Exchange WW2- Battlefields, War Memorials, Holocaust Memorials and Concentration Camps, Atomic Bomb Sites Cold War- Basically the WHOLE WORLD !, Russia, Cuba, Vietnam, Korea, Berlin, Space Centers, Nuclear testing sites, etc Civil Rights- Freedom Rides, sites of assassinations, Jim Crow south, protests Also- Presidential Libraries, museums, sites of tragedies, landmarks, national praks.