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- 6th - 12th
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Students, in groups, research a specific decade from the second half of the twentieth century. They dramatize a New Year's Eve television broadcast from their chosen decade. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students investigate the lifestyle of Americans in the 1950's by examining family life, scientific and technological progress and musical fads. They compare and contrast the lifestyle of a child of the 1950's with one of today. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students culminate their study of Michigan in the 1950's by celebrating with reports, displays and art projects. They research products from the 1950's that are still for sale today. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students identify several features of the historic/social/cultural background of the 1950s. They sing and perform a percussion accompaniment to "Summertime Blues" by Eddie Cochran and create artwork in the style of Jackson Pollock. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students study the music, important people and culture associated with the 1950's era. They listen music, view videos and show clips, and research websites to determine the characteristics associated with this era. They rewrite songs, dress like people who lived in the '50's and perform dances. Full Review »
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- 11th
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Students examine the cultural mood and politics of the 1950's in the United States. They read a section of their text and take notes, view a clip of the movie "Pleasantville" and discuss societal roles in the 1950's, and listen to the Checkers speech made by Richard Nixon. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students examine life in the 1950's and compare and contrast current times to life in the 1950s in areas such as jobs, role of men, women and students, gadgets and technology, cars, clothes, and hairstyles. Students complete project by interviewing someone who grew up in the 50s and writing and performing their own episode of "I Love Lucy". Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students encounter how to work together as a group to accomplish a common goal. They gain more experience in doing research using library reference materials as well as internet sources. Each group is responsible for making a bulletin board type of visual display covering the fads of the 1950's. Full Review »
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- 10th - 12th
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Students study the ripple effect of the baby boom generation on history and on their lives today. They discover how the rules and conformity of the 1950's set the stage for the rebellious, anti-establishment sixties. They study the textbook on the 1950-1960 and place important events on time-line. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students complete an Individual Artist Information Sheet on famous 1950's Rock and Roll musician. They read one of the chapeters on "Elvis Pressley, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Rockabilly, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Everly Brothers, or Buddly Holly" from The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll, and make a list of 15 facts that they found out from the chapter. Full Review »
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