1960s The Era of Change Project

Project requirements:

1) For the project you may use:

a. PowerPoint/Keynoteb. Prezic. Photostoryd. Google Slides

2) Your presentation must be a minimum of ten (10) minutes in length. Maximum length is fifteen (15) minutes. You will be stopped if you go over the 15 minute length.

3) Within your presentation you must include:

a. Contextual informationb. Pictures/Graphics (make sure your pictures are properly formatted and

are not blurryc. Video/Audio (YouTube or the like).d. Note: Every picture, graphic, video, audio, etc. must include an embedded hyperlink that will link back to the site of obtainment.

4) Your presentation must be formatted properly.

a. A title slide with your topic, name, teacher’s name and the year (2016).

b. The contextual slides1. Be grammatically correct and make sure your words are

spelledcorrectly.

2. Be informative - you must find the right balance to the slide in terms of

words and sensory information.

OK, here’s the assignment….

The sixties were the age of youth, as 70 million children from the post-war baby boom became teenagers and young adults. The movement away from the conservative fifties continued and eventually resulted in revolutionary ways of thinking and real change in the cultural fabric of American life. No longer content to be images of the preceding generation, young people wanted change. The changes affected education, values, lifestyles, laws, and entertainment. Many of the revolutionary ideas which began in the sixties are continuing to evolve today.

The 1960’s were a very emotional decade. There are numerous different possible topics out there. You may choose from the list below or you may suggest one of your own. (Google the “1960’s” to get about a zillion different ideas) All topics MUST be approved by me before you can begin working on your project. Topics are also 1st come 1st serve. You must write your name(s) on a sheet of paper & give it to me starting Thursday (02/04/15). All students must have a topic by Friday the 5th of February or I will assign them one. All projects are due Wednesday, Feb 10, 2016. We will present the projects over three days February 10, 11, and 12).

Your presentation must cover these three specific areas…

1. How is your topic a continuation or massive shift from previous decades?

2. How was your topic specifically impacted by the Cold War with the Soviet Union?

3. What two aspects of your topic are still seen today?

1. Civil Rights Movement

Martin Luther King Jr.

Montgomery bus boycott

Malcolm X

Stokely Carmichael

Little Rock Nine

The March on Washington (1963) “I have a dream” speech

2. Politics

President Kennedy (Camelot)

President Johnson

President Nixon

Robert F. Kennedy

Greensboro Sit in

Freedom Riders

Black Panther Party

Cesar Chavez & the United Farm Workers

Presidential Commission on the Status of Women

NOW

The New Left

Environment (Rachel Carson)

Thurgood Marshall

3. Cold War

The Berlin Wall

Bay of Pigs

Cuban Missile Crisis

Fidel Castro

The Soviets

CIA

4. Vietnam

Timeline / summary of the war

Soldiers of the war (General Westmoreland, Lt. Gen. McCaffrey, NO, Forrest Gump does

not count!)

Robert McNamara

Ngo Dinh Diem

Kim Phuac

Fall of Saigon

Adrian Cronauer

5. Music and Media

The Beatles

The Rolling Stones

Elvis

Woodstock

Protest songs

Television

Hollywood

6. Pop culture

Clothes & fashion of the 60’s

Hippies, Haight Ashbury

Toys of the 60’s (Barbie, GI JOE, etc.)

Art and Literature

Slang

Architecture (Phillip Johnson, John Burgee, I.M, Pei, Eero Saarinen)

7. Sports and Leisure - Heroes and Pastimes

Baseball

Football

Boxing

Societal impact

Professional and amateurism

8. Inventions, Science, and Technology

NASA

The Apollo 1 story (3 die in fire)

Apollo 11 landing on the moon

Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins

Medical Advancements

Computing

Astroturf

Lava Lamps

Resources: (Just a few to help you get started. There are many out there!)

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1960s.html

http://www.history.com/topics/1960s

http://www.cnn.com/shows/the-sixties

http://www.retrowaste.com/1960s/sports-in-the-1960s/