It has been reported that teenagers of your generation know nothing
about the good ‘ole days of the 1950’s. You will explore the 1950’s, 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 1950’s. It will be
your job to report this information back to your generation before it is too late
and the decade of the 1950’s has been forgotten. However, time is wasting… So
put on your bobby socks, roll up your dungarees, and away you go!!!!
1950s Googledocs Presentation Project
1.
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
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.)
*In addition to these websites, you also have the
MAMS Library databases available. Please ask me
for Username and Passwords
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/special/m
lk/index.html
http://www.zunal.com/process.php?w=8397
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/sci/A0843
738.html
http://rockhall.com/
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/tv50.htm
http://www.capitalcentury.com/1951.html
http://www.southernmusic.net/1950.htm
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/fashion/3-dmovies.htm
http://www.loti.com/
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/
home.html
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/public
roads/96summer/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/president
s/dwightdeisenhower/
http://history.nasa.gov/brief.html
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/o
nthisday/bday/0917.html
http://199.88.16.12/middleschool/staff/jbr
unson/webquest_files/frame.htm#slide00
01.htm
http://www.zunal.com/webquest.php?w=
83977
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/
http://www.history.com/topics/st-patricks-da