World History
Russian Revolution PowerPoint Project
Overview: This project allows students the opportunity to integrate technology with history. Students will learn the major concepts of the Russian Revolution through student created multimedia presentation using the PowerPoint program.
Goals: At the end of this project students will be able to:
Skills: At the end of this project students will be able to:
Assessment: Multimedia project (60 points) see attached rubric
Multimedia Presentations: Each group (4-5 students) will be assigned an area of Russian revolution and read that section. They will outline the major points of that section and use that information to create a 20-minute multimedia presentation to be given to the class. Students will be given class time during the week so they can focus on the presentations.
What is a Multimedia presentation? A multimedia presentation uses one or several forms of media (slides, pictures, music, movies, computer graphic images, sounds) to present information in an interesting manner. Computer multimedia programs include Hyperstudio (Apple/Mac) and PowerPoint (Windows/ PC’s). For this project we will be using PowerPoint and the PC computer lab located on the 2nd floor of the library.
Resources: Students will use the world history textbook supplemented by materials from the library including books, encyclopedias, movies, CD-ROM's and access to the Internet with marked sites on the Russian Revolution. Students will also have access to handouts on how to use PowerPoint and ample time in the computer lab to complete the assignment.
The Topics:
Topic 1 Life in Czarist Russia including the reigns of Alexander II, Alexander the III, and Nicholas II, the Industrialization of Russia, and the Revolution of 1905
Information available in Chapter Section 24 Section 1 pg. 576-580
Topic 2 Socialist theories of Karl Marx, Russian Involvement in World War I, Rasputin the Mad Monk, Abdication of the Czar, Provisional Government (Duma) is established
Information available in Chapter Section 24 Section 2 pg. 580-583
Topic 3 Bolsheviks take power, Lenin becomes ruler of Russia, Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Russian Civil War, Execution of the Royal Family, Lenin's dictatorship, struggle for power after Lenin's death
Information available in Chapter Section 24 Section 3 pg. 583-586
Topic 4 Stalin's philosophy, Five Year Plans and their effects, life in the Soviet Union under Stalin, the purges,
Information available in Chapter Section 24 Section 4 pg. 586-590
Topic One and Topic Two present on __________________.
Topic Three and Topic Four present on __________________.