Please follow all classroom guidelines for using the Internet. At the time I created this page, all the links were working and were school appropriate; however, the Web is an ever changing environment. I can not guarentee the content of each web site and the links off of each page.
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These Internet sites can provide additional information in each category. To make it easier for your students, bookmark sites before you ask students to view them. They will have less typing to do and less chance to make a mistake with a long address. You can also look for new sites using a search engine designed for students http://www.yahooligans.com and a site with lots of 1960s links http://www.slip.net/~scmetro/sixties.htm. People and Events Read about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at: http://www.seattletimes.com/mlk/index.html and http://www-leland.stanford.edu:80/group/King. Learn
more about the March on Washington: http://www.msnbc.com/onair/msnbc/ Read the "I Have a Dream" speech: http://web66.coled.umn.edu/new/MLK/MLK.html. See pictures of King from LIFE magazine:http://pathfinder.com/pathfinder/features/mlk. Take the virtual tours of the Freedom Rides and the March on Washington at the National Civil Rights Museum: http://www.mecca.org/~crights. Use the time line of the American Civil Rights Movement:http://www.wmich.edu/politics/mlk. Hear part of John F. Kennedy's inaugural speech at the Peace Corps site: http://www.peacecorps.gov. Find information about those who fought in the Vietnam War, or ask Dr. Bob a question about the Vietnam War or Vietnam today: http://www.vietvet.org. Read a time line of American involvement in Vietnam: http://acs.oakton.edu/~wittman/chronol.html. Read about John F. Kennedy as President: http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/presidents/html/jk35.html and http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/jfkennedy.html. Take a virtual tour of the student sit-ins through the National Civil Rights Museum: http://www.mecca.org/~crights/cyber.html. Find dates of student protests and other demonstrations against the Vietnam War on a time line at http://acs.oakton.edu/~wittman/chronol.html. President Johnson followed up on another President's ideas about paying for health care for older Americans. http://www.hcfa.gov/facts/f9510ann.htm. What percentage of older Americans are covered by Medicare today compared to those with health insurance in the 1960s? http://www.hcfa.gov/facts/f9510ann.htm. Read stories of VISTA volunteers: http://www.libertynet.org/~zelson/living/reader.html. Arts & Entertainment Visit the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame at http://www.rockhall.com to look up musicians. Check out the exhibit on "The Psychedelic Era." Look up Berry Gordy, Jr., and some Motown artists he worked with: Jackie Wilson, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, the Temptations, and the Supremes. Listen to audio clips from performers at Woodstock: Jefferson Airplane, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Carlos Santana. Check out Beatles trivia and listen to song clips. Use
the Internet Movie Database to look up stars, movies and TV
shows: http://us.imdb.com.
Look up Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, and Jack Nicholson in
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What's today's star date? http://www.startrek.com. See Beatles album covers and lyrics: http://www.smoky.org/~wes/Beatles. Listen to sound clips from Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In: http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/1276/laugh-in.html. Check out the paintings and art in The Andy Warhol Museum: http://www.warhol.org/warhol. Look up a pop artist, David Hockney, in the 20th century famous paintings area of the Web Museum: http://sunsite.unc.edu/wm. Sports Read about Maris's career: http://www.totalbaseball.com. Check his records in the "time machine": http://www.yankees.com. Read about the first two Super Bowl teams: the Green Bay Packers at http://www.packers.com and the Kansas City Chiefs at http://www.kcchiefs.com. See a play in the first Super Bowl: http://www.nfl.com/superbowl/history/memories. Learn more about Packers coach Vince Lombardi at http://www.cmgww.com/football/lombardi/lombardi.html. Science and Technology Read about Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring at http://www.rachelcarson.org. Learn about garbage and recycling, air, the environment, plants, and animals: http://www.epa.gov/kids. Learn about the Apollo Manned Space Program: http://ceps.nasm.edu:2020/APOLLO/Apollo.html. See NASA's video clips and hear sounds from the historic Apollo 11 mission: http://www.osf.hq.nasa.gov/apollo/apo11.html. How 'old' would you be on another planet? http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/kids/academy/age.html How much would you weigh on the moon? http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/kids/academy/weight.html How would you have run a business in the 1960s? See how a microprocessor works! http://www.intel.com/intel/intelis/museum. Learn more about how lasers work at http://encarta.msn.com/ctc, and read about laser science projects at http://www.laserfx.com/science.html. Lifestyle See 1960s Mustangs at the Ford site: http://www.ford.com/archive/mustanghistory.html. Check out '60s clothes: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/4473/index.html. Send an electronic postcard to someone who collects Barbie® dolls: http://www.barbie.com. Play games and share your ideas in Kids' Network and read Talk Board at National Geographic World: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids. |
