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THE 1960’S - A DECADE OF CHANGE

THE 1960’S - A DECADE OF CHANGE. Rachel Carter Aimee Callahan Heather Whitaker. ED 608 Dr. Helms November 13 , 2000. INTRODUCTION. Grade Level We are putting this project together for grades fifth through eighth. Many of the activities and resources can be used for different levels.

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THE 1960’S - A DECADE OF CHANGE

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  1. THE 1960’S - A DECADE OF CHANGE Rachel Carter Aimee Callahan Heather Whitaker ED 608 Dr. Helms November 13 , 2000

  2. INTRODUCTION • Grade Level • We are putting this project together for grades fifth through eighth. Many of the activities and resources can be used for different levels. • Goals and Objectives • We want to create a resource for teaching the decade of the 1960’s. The resources are varied and touch upon many different aspects of this decade.

  3. AMERICAN HERITAGE

  4. WEB PAGES Museum of American Heritage www.moah.org Civil Rights Movement www.wmich.edu/politics/mlk/ The Women’s Rights Movement www.Legacy98.org/ History www.TheHistoryNet.com/ Vietnam War www.history place.com/unitedstates/vietnam/

  5. ACTIVITIES 1. The students will create a timeline of the civil rights movement. 2. The students will pick one civil rights leader and research them and present an oral report on their leader. 3. The students will interview someone who lived during the sixties and ask them questions about the decade. 4. The students will create a timeline of the Vietnam War. 5. We will have a Vietnam Veteran visit the class and talk about the war.

  6. PEOPLE IN SOCIETIES

  7. WEB PAGES Martin Luther King, Jr.. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com.mlk/ John F. Kennedy www.copperas.com/jfk Lyndon Johnson www.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/presidents/html/lj36.html Medgar Evers www.olemiss.edu/dept/english/ms-writers/dir/evers_medgar/ Neil Armstrong www.astronauts.org/astronauts/astronauts/armstrong.htm

  8. ACTIVITIES 1. Listen to Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” and have the students write about their dreams. 2. Study the first moonwalk and visit the Challenger Center. 3. Study the presidency of Kennedy and Johnson and compare and contrast their presidencies using a Venn Diagram. 4. Have a visitor, who experienced the Civil Rights Movement, speak to students. 5. Watch a video of the first space walk.

  9. World Interactions Vietnam War

  10. Web Sites http://www.vietnam-war.org/ http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/13476.htm/ http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?z=1&pg=2&ti=00489000 http://www.vietvet.org/thepast.htm http://servercc.oakton.edu/~wittman/

  11. Activities 2. Calculate the distance from Dayton to a designated Vietnamese City. 3. Sample Vietnamese Cuisine. 1. Take cyber tour of Vietnam War. 4. Interview someone from Vietnam. 5. Go to V.A. and talk to Veterans about Vietnam. On trip to Washington D.C. visit “The Wall”

  12. Decision Making & Resources

  13. Web Sites 1.http://www.midsouth.rr.com/civilrights/it1.html 2. http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/crt-home.html 3.http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/intro.htm 4. http://www.angelfire.com/tx/mlkingjr/ 5. http://www.missdeal.com/war.htm

  14. Activities 2. Take a cyber tour of the 60’s. Discussions: 3. Talk to College students of 60’s, did they protest, what do they think of those who did? As a child of the 60’s what issues would you be faced with. 4. Speculate how the protest of the 60’s changed our government (world). 5. What would happen if we had protests (for a cause) with the same intensity of the 60’s today? Change - Chaos

  15. Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities Section 1. Equality of Rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of sex. Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification. Gloria Steinem Rosa Parks

  16. Women's Rights Movement Websites http://www.proactivist.com/links_peo/ http://server.saline.lib.mi.us/women.htm http://www-lib.usc.edu/~retter/pescador.html http://www.now.org/history/history.html http://www.pacifica.org

  17. Women's Rights Movement Activities • The students will perform a skit about the role that • Rosa parks played during the bus boycott. 2. They will create and display a class timeline of events that happened during the 1960s to benefit Women’s Rights. • An active Civil Rights woman from the 1960s will come • speak to the class about her experiences of that time. 4. Students will research an active leader during the Movement and will present the information to the class. 5. Each student will read a book about Womens Rights and present a report, acting as the main character of the book.

  18. Democratic Processes The Election of 1960

  19. Presidential Election 1960 Websites http://www.debateinfo.com/hall_of_fame/kennedy-nixon/ http://www.calder.net/dinfo/i00001.htm http://www.umich.edu/~nes/studyres/nes1960/nes1960.htm http://slate.msn.com/netelection/entries/99-09-14_34450.asp http://odyssey.lib.duke.edu/americavotes/

  20. Election of 1960 Activities • Take the class on a field trip to Washington, stopping at the Eternal • Flame and The Kennedy Center. 2. Watch “JFK” as a class, and discuss the details of the movie. • As a class, listen to the broadcasts of “The shot heard around the • World”; discuss the emotional state of the country on 11/22/63. • The students will watch the first televised presidential debate and • write a persuasive essay on which candidate they would have voted for • and why. • Conduct a class debate, with half of the students presenting the issues • of Kennedy, while the other half present Nixon’s issues.

  21. In conclusion of our presentation on the 1960s A Decade Of Change,we hope to have provided a wide range of learning experiences for students and a resource for teachers. With completion of our activities, in addition to viewing our presentation and websites, students will have a better understanding of the era.

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