THE 1960S A DECADE OF CHANGE

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THE 1960S - A DECADE OF CHANGE
Rachel Carter Aimee Callahan Heather Whitaker
ED 608 Dr. Helms November 13 , 2000
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Grade Level We are putting this project togeth
er for grades fifth through eighth. Many of the
activities and resources can be used for
different levels. Goals and Objectives We want t
o create a resource for teaching the decade of
the 1960s. The resources are varied and touch
upon many different aspects of this decade.
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Museum of American Heritage www.moah.org Civil R
ights Movement www.wmich.edu/politics/mlk/ The W
omens Rights Movement www.Legacy98.org/ History
www.TheHistoryNet.com/ Vietnam War www.history
place.com/unitedstates/vietnam/
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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 timelin
e of the Vietnam War. 5. We will have a Vietnam V
eteran visit the class and talk about the war.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.. http//seattletimes.nwso
urce.com.mlk/ John F. Kennedy www.copperas.com/j
fk Lyndon Johnson www.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/
presidents/html/lj36.html Medgar Evers www.olemi
ss.edu/dept/english/ms-writers/dir/evers_medgar/
Neil Armstrong www.astronauts.org/astronauts/ast
ronauts/armstrong.htm
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1. Listen to Martin Luther Kings I Have a
Dream and have the students write about their
dreams. 2. Study the first moonwalk and visit th
e 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.
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World Interactions

• Vietnam War

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Web Sites

• http//www.vietnam-war.org/
• http//www.encyclopedia.com/articles/13476.htm/
• http//encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?z1pg2t
  i00489000
  
• http//www.vietvet.org/thepast.htm
• http//servercc.oakton.edu/wittman/

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Activities

• 1. 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
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Decision Making Resources
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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/intr
  o.htm
  
• 4. http//www.angelfire.com/tx/mlkingjr/
• 5. http//www.missdeal.com/war.htm

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Activities

• As a child of the 60s what issues would you be
  faced with.

2. Take a cyber tour of the 60s.
Discussions
3. Talk to College students of 60s, did they
protest, what do they think of those who
did?
4. Speculate how the protest of the 60s changed
our government (world).
5. What would happen if we had protests (for a
cause) with the same intensity of the 60s today?
Change - Chaos
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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 Cong
ress shall have the power to enforce, by
appropriate legislation, the provisions of this
article. Section 3. This amendment shall take ef
fect two years after the date of ratification.
Rosa Parks
Gloria Steinem
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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
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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 bene
fit Womens 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.
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Websites
http//www.debateinfo.com/hall_of_fame/kennedy-nix
on/
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/
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Activities
Take the class on a field trip to Washington,
stopping at the Eternal Flame and The Kennedy Ce
nter.
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 s
tate 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 oth
er half present Nixons issues.
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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 teac
hers. With completion of our activities, in addi
tion to viewing our presentation and websites, s
tudents will have a better understanding of the e
ra.