Historical Video on TikTok

Increasingly, students learn about the past and present from social media. This assessment asks students to evaluate the trustworthiness of a video on TikTok depicting an American city in the 1940s. Use this task as an exit ticket or "do now" to start the class in order to quickly gauge student thinking about videos on social media. Using the accompanying rubric as a guide, review responses to get a sense of how students evaluate videos on TikTok.