Miss Jacobson's Blackboard: Decades Project

At the end of last Thursday many of us had feelings both of relief and accomplishment, after having presented one of our big projects for the semester: our Decades Project. The group that I was part of presented the 1950's. I myself am particularly fascinated with the 50's, so this was an exciting project for me to do. My focuses during the project were on the fashion and the movies of the 50's. I very much enjoyed finding out how many Disney movies were produced in the 50's. One of the most fascinating things that I stumbled across in my research for the project was a blog where a woman from Toronto had recently put together a series of posts on what she called her "1950's Housewife Experiment", where she spent several weeks living the life of a 1950's housewife.

I really enjoyed working with the ladies in my group, and I think we ended up with a very well put together project. Looking at and reading about all the interesting facts they had researched about the 50's was really interesting. When we presented our project, we had several hula-hoops (invented in the 50's) for people to have hula-hoop contests with. I think I had the most fun with our presentation in dressing up, because I love 1950's style fashion.

All of the other groups in our class also did a really great job of presenting their projects, and I was really impressed. It was fascinating to find out all the little trivia that they presented, and being able to connect toys, movies, music, food, and other things to the time periods when they were invented or made popular. The 1960's group even brought Mouse Trap, which we set up together. I played Mouse Trap a lot as a child, so it was fun to find out when it had been invented!