After dividing students into small groups, students play a variation of the game Balderdash to celebrate the publication of Webster's dictionary.
Noah Webster published his American Dictionary of the English Language in 1828.
In 1969, the first human walked on the moon.
As a class, students discuss Neil Armstrong's famous quote when he landed on the moon and explore the difference that one word can make, as well as the gendered language that Armstrong uses.
Dictionary author Noah Webster was born in 1758.
Students play a variation of the game Balderdash to practice vocabulary.