What were the causes of the US Economic BOOM in the 1920s?

The purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to the causes of the US boom between 1919-1930.

Students enter with a task to immediately complete a recall five definitions they will need to understand for this lesson. The teacher introduces the lesson intention / the bigger picture and outlines definitions on the board.

Main task 1:
students are each supplied with a cause factor card. Students to watch a summary video and are challenged to look out for their particular factor title when it appears in the video. Students then summarize on the back of their card how this factor led to an economic boom in the USA. They will have the printed explanation on the other side if they require it for support.

A select number of students are then asked to become experts in their particular factor. they are to remain at their tables or at designated points around the classroom whilst other students circulate to ‘interview them’ and complete their factor sheet.

Main task 2: A challenge and more challenging option of tasks here for differentiation:
Challenge:
Diamond 9 rank order the factors in order of most to least significant. Then explain why you have placed the factors in those positions.
More challenging:
Students to receive factor title sheet to cut out - students then draw connections between each of the factors to explain how they link together - textbook support could be used here.

Students could add further sub factors of their own. To then verbally justify and present back to the teacher class as a plenary.