Prohibition Day 2 Deck

So today, I created another PearDeck that used a lot of video clips and analysis to keep students engaged with the topic of the consequences of prohibition. Tomorrow we will be analyzing sources to write a DBQ, so I wanted students to be familiar with the failures of prohibition. The content itself is highly engaging for students, but again, students who rarely participate in class were constructing much more sophisticated responses than usual. Today I spent less time on discussion, but the format was still solid and again, students reported that they enjoyed the way the activity functioned. On task behaviors seem to be up when using this tool. Although it is not effective in all situations (particularly when imparting new content) it does seem effective for source analysis which we do regularly in the history classroom.