1950s Powerpoint Project

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The 1950s

It has been reported that teenagers of your
generation know nothing about the good ole days
of the 1950s. You will explore the 1950s, home
of the Sock Hop, Drive-In Movies, and the
Hula-Hoop Craze You will also meet important
and popular people like James Dean, Elvis, or
Lucille Ball you might even get involved in the
atomic race. Upon arrival you and your classmates
will be responsible for finding out as much as
you can about the 1950s. It will be your job to
report this information back to your generation
before it is too late and the decade of the
1950s has been forgotten. However, time is
wasting So put on your bobby socks, roll up your
dungarees, and away you go!!!!
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1950s Googledocs Presentation Project

• Your group will consist of three or four
  investigators, and each member will have a
  specific area of research. You will become an
  expert in the area of research you are assigned.
  Gather as much information as you can and be
  ready to report back to your group
• 2. Use on-line resources and once everyone has
  investigated their subject area, you will put
  your research together and create a 5-7 slide
  Googledocs Presentation summarizing the
  information you gathered.  
• 3. Be sure to include the following on each
  slide
• a. Titles, pictures, and captions
• b. Written information

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Group Topics Your group will be assigned one of
the following topics United States-Soviet
Rivalry (Space Arms Race) (Space Age/Race,
Sputnik, NASA, Project Mercury, Explorer I,
Atomic Scare/Age, Arms Race, nuclear weapons,
fall-out shelters, etc.) Technology/Inventions
(inventions, medical advances, roads/highways,
automobiles, air travel, television, computers,
consumer goods etc.) Music Radio (rock n
roll, records, radios, popular types of music,
famous musicians, controversy created with new
forms of music, etc.) Television, Theater,
Film (popularity, famous actors/actresses, films,
drive-in movies, 3-D, comedies, etc.) Sports
(famous athletes, diversity in sports, types of
sports, Olympics, televised sports, women in
sports, how sports were a favorite pastime, etc.)
Art, Architecture, Books, Literature (popular
books/authors, abstract art, artists, suburbia,
Levittown, science fiction, etc.) Youth
Culture (clothing, toys, food, music, dancing,
activities all popular for youth, generation gap,
etc.) Fads Fashion (fads, clothing,
designers, popular vacations, haircuts, styles,
food, favorites, etc.)
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http//www.zunal.com/process.php?w83977
In addition to these websites, you also have the
MAMS Library databases available. Please ask me
for Username and Passwords
http//www.factmonster.com/ce6/sci/A0843738.html

http//seattletimes.nwsource.com/special/mlk/index
.html
http//rockhall.com/
http//www.fiftiesweb.com/tv50.htm
http//www.capitalcentury.com/1951.html
http//www.southernmusic.net/1950.htm
http//www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/
bday/0917.html
http//www.fiftiesweb.com/fashion/3-d-movies.htm
http//www.loti.com/
http//199.88.16.12/middleschool/staff/jbrunson/we
bquest_files/frame.htmslide0001.htm http//www.z
unal.com/webquest.php?w83977
http//www.writing.upenn.edu/afilreis/50s/home.ht
ml
http//www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/9
6summer/
http//www.fiftiesweb.com/
http//www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/dwightd
eisenhower/
http//www.history.com/topics/st-patricks-day
http//history.nasa.gov/brief.html