Grade Level

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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 1960s. The resources are varied
  and touch upon many different aspects of this
  decade.

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AMERICAN HERITAGE
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WEB PAGES
Museum of American Heritage www.moah.org Civil
Rights Movement www.wmich.edu/politics/mlk/ The
Womens Rights Movement www.Legacy98.org/ History
www.TheHistoryNet.com/ Vietnam War www.history
place.com/unitedstates/vietnam/
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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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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.
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PEOPLE IN SOCIETIES
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WEB PAGES
Martin Luther King, Jr.. http//seattletimes.nwsou
rce.com.mlk/ John F. Kennedy www.copperas.com/jfk
Lyndon Johnson www.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/presi
dents/html/lj36.html Medgar Evers www.olemiss.edu/
dept/english/ms-writers/dir/evers_medgar/ Neil
Armstrong www.astronauts.org/astronauts/astronaut
s/armstrong.htm
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ACTIVITIES
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
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.