THE 1960’S - A DECADE OF CHANGE

Rachel Carter

Aimee Callahan

Heather Whitaker

ED 608

Dr. Helms

November 13 , 2000

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.

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/

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr..http://seattletimes.nwsource.com.mlk/

John F. Kennedywww.copperas.com/jfk

Lyndon Johnsonwww.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/presidents/html/lj36.html

Medgar Everswww.olemiss.edu/dept/english/ms-writers/dir/evers_medgar/

Neil Armstrong www.astronauts.org/astronauts/astronauts/armstrong.htm

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.

World InteractionsVietnam War

Web Siteshttp://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/

Activities1. Take cyber tour of Vietnam War.

2. Calculate the distance from Dayton to a designated Vietnamese City.

3. Sample Vietnamese Cuisine.

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”

Decision Making & Resources

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

Activities1. As a child of the 60’s what issues would you be faced

with.

2. Take a cyber tour of the 60’s.

3. Talk to College students of 60’s, did they protest, what do they think of those who did?

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

Discussions:

Rosa Parks

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

Websiteshttp://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

Activities1. 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.

3. An active Civil Rights woman from the 1960s will come speak to the class about her experiences of that time.

5. Each student will read a book about Womens Rights and present a report, acting as the main character of the book.

4. Students will research an active leader during the Movement and will present the information to the class.

Websites

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/

http://www.debateinfo.com/hall_of_fame/kennedy-nixon/

http://www.calder.net/dinfo/i00001.htm

Activities1. 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.

3. 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.

4. The students will watch the first televised presidential debate and write a persuasive essay on which candidate they would have voted for and why.

5. Conduct a class debate, with half of the students presenting the issues of Kennedy, while the other half present Nixon’s issues.

In conclusion of our presentation on the

1960s A Decade Of Change,we hope tohave 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 abetter understanding of the era.