THE 1960’S - A DECADE OF
CHANGE
Rachel Carter
ED 608
Aimee Callahan
Dr. Helms
Heather Whitaker
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. Kennedy
www.copperas.com/jfk
Lyndon Johnson
www.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/presidents/html/lj36.html
Medgar Evers
www.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 Interactions
Vietnam War
Web Sites
http://www.vietnam-war.org/
http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/
13476.htm/
http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.a
sp?z=1&pg=2&ti=00489000
http://www.vietvet.org/thepast.htm
http://servercc.oakton.edu/~wittman/
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”
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
Activities
1.
As a child of the 60’s what issues would you be faced
with.
2. Take a cyber tour of the 60’s.
Discussions:
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
Gloria
Steinem
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.
Rosa
Parks
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
Activities
1. 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.
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.
Websites
http://www.debateinfo.com/hall_of_fame/kennedy-nixon/
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/
Activities
1. 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 to
have 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 a
better understanding of the era.