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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Science in Focus: Energy: Transfer and Conversion of Energy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Change happens when energy is transferred or converted. Included with the teaching unit, is a sixty-minute video that examines the conversion between potential and kinetic energy.
Handout
Alabama Humanities Foundation

Encyclopedia of Alabama: Sports and Recreation: Satchel Paige

For Students 9th - 10th
The first African American to pitch in the major league, Satchel Paige led a full life of baseball. Satchel retired from the mound when he was sixty years old. Discover the successes and setbacks of this famed baseball player.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: The Supremes

For Students 9th - 10th
The most popular female group of the sixties, The Supremes was headed by a singer named Diana Ross. Use this site to learn about their career, their hit songs, even the break-up of the group. Also included in this site is a timeline just...
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Anna May Wong

For Students 9th - 10th
Appearing in over sixty movies throughout her career, Anna May Wong was the first Chinese American film star in Hollywood.
Article
Art Institute of Chicago

Alfred Stieglitz Collection: The Photo Secession

For Students 9th - 10th
This article explains the Photo-Secession movement which sought recognition for photography as an art form. There are more than sixty identified photographs by a number of members of the Photo-Secession movement, with links to more...
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University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania: Gary Snyder

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Pennsylvania offers an excerpt from MAKING PEACE WITH THE SIXTIES by David Burner.
Interactive
Museum of Modern Art

Mo Ma: Eye on Europe: Prints, Books & Multiples, 1960 Now

For Students 9th - 10th
Online exhibition traces the creation of paper and mixed-media works by artists working in various European art centers along six different thematic pathways, such as popular culture, idea-driven conceptual art, protest, and...
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University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson

For Students 9th - 10th
Selected poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892). Seventy-nine full-text poems are included.
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University of Washington

University of Washington Libraries: Vietnam War Era Ephemera

For Students 9th - 10th
Access a database of leaflets, illustrations, posters, and newspapers that were distributed on the University of Washington campus during the 1960s and 1970s. Items in the collection reflect the social and political activities of the...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Writing in u.s. History: 1968: A Time of Change

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore how the events and cultural and political changes that occurred in 1968 came to represent the upheaval and dramatic changes in American life during the 1960s. In this interactive lesson from WGBH, students develop a written...
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University of Virginia

University of Virginia: Four Radical Groups of the 60's

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Virginia offers links to several militant groups of the sixties: Black Panther Party, SDS, and Youth International Party (Yippies).
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Making of African American Identity: Painting the Migration

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Paintings by Jacob Lawrence titled, "The Migration of the Negro", a series of sixty paintings, illustrates the migration of African Americans to the North in the twentieth century. A link to this artwork can be found within this summary.
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Poetry, Making of African American Identity: V. 3

For Students 9th - 10th
This study of black protest poems from the early part of the twentieth century through the late sixties can provide insight into the issues African Americans faced during that time and the ways they responded to them. Works from seven...
Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Declaration of Sentiments

For Students 9th - 10th
This Wikipedia page provides the text of the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments, a document signed in 1848 by sixty-eight women and thirty-two men, delegates to the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York.
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University of California

The History Project: Ideas and Strategies of the Woman Suffrage Movement

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The campaign for woman suffrage in the U.S. began with the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. Sixty years later, however, women could vote in only four states: Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming. In 1910 the state of Washington voted nearly...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Photographs by Lisa Law 1965 1971

For Students 9th - 10th
Former "flower child" Lisa Law shares her photographs and memories of the turbulent sixties counterculture.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: American Women: Ethel Barrymore

For Students 9th - 10th
Ethel Barrymore from the famous family of actors spent sixty years in the theater. Read about her roles and see a portrait of her painted by Paul Helleu.
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New York Times

New York Times: On This Day: Commander of Armies That Turned Back Japan Led a Brigade in Wwi

For Students 9th - 10th
An obituary for General Douglas MacArthur, who served in the United States Army for over sixty years. [Article date: April 6, 1964]
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Booker T. And the m.g.'s

For Students 9th - 10th
Starting out as a house band for Stax records, they then became a successful recording group in their own right. Booker T. and the MG's were an important force in shaping the sound of Sixties soul music. They were inducted into the Rock...
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Martha and the Vandellas

For Students 9th - 10th
Read biographical details on Sixties pop-soul female group, Martha and the Vandellas, 1995 inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Includes a timeline of key events, recommended reading list, and essential songs.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Otis Redding

For Students 9th - 10th
Although he recorded for only four years, Otis Redding left a commanding mark on the soul music industry and helped shape the sound of the sixties. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Simon and Garfunkel

For Students 9th - 10th
Offers complete biographical details on popular Sixties folk-rock duo, Simon and Garfunkel, 1990 inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Includes a timeline of key events and essential songs list.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: The Byrds

For Students 9th - 10th
Read up on one of the greatest folk-rock bands of the sixties. The Byrds featured great guitarists Roger McQuinn and David Crosby and had three top 500 songs. They were inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1991.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: The Shirelles

For Students 9th - 10th
One of the earliest girl vocal groups of the early Sixties, they had a dozen Top Forty hits including the first #1 single by a girl group. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.

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