"Eleanor & Park" '80s research

As an alternate to providing students with lots of information from the '80s is to let them look it up. I assigned one class to research popular culture in the '80s and asked them to make PowerPoints to share their knowledge with the rest of the class. I combined all of their PowerPoints into one, so there was some duplication, but overall students received lots of information.

Here is an example of one slide from one of my students: