Textbooks:
The American Journey
Montana: Our Land & People (Pruett)

Other materials utilized:
1 notebook, Billings Gazette newspaper, U.S. News and World Report, maps, videos, filmstrips, computers, and
the Internet.

Course Abstract 8th grade Social Studies encompasses reading, writing, listening, drawing, and interpretation of events & material appropriate for the 8th grader.

Course Syllabus:

* The Reconstruction

* Gilded Age

* The Progressive Era

* World War I

* The Golden Twenties

*The Great Depression

* World War II

*The Cold War

* A Changing Nation

* A Time of Shocks

* The Reagan Years

* Political Cartoons

* Montana
 

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8th Grade Tech ED.

PowerPoint – make a presentation using you and your family as the topic.

Features used:

- Backgrounds

-  Pictures

Digital

Scanned

Clipart

- Sound

Voice (yours)

CD (music)

Clip (off Internet)

-Animation of text and pictures

-Creating hyperlinks

-Transition on slides

-Use Draw features

-Text box and shading

-Hyperlink

Database –  create database using the Presidents or states

create a database of your choice having a minimum of eight

fields, a minimum of twenty records, design a form, and

create a report from each database.

Spreadsheet – create a spreadsheet for a checkbook ledger

- work with entering formulas to spreadsheets

 - convert spreadsheets to Database.

Word Processing – embedding watermarks into a document

-  making a poster

-  other trick and things that you can use.

Internet search – 3 Internet searches

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