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.
Back to the Main Decade Web Quest Page
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Check
out the many lists of TV shows, cartoons, toys, food and
drink, movies, music, fashion, technology, recreation,
lingo, and commercials from the 1980s at http://www.rpi.edu/~boothj/
See
videos of the fall of the Berlin Wall at http://www.msnbc.com/onair/msnbc/
TimeAndAgain/archive/ See
a timeline of events in the discussions about reducing arms,
and choose the Dec. 7-10, 1987 link from http://www.washingtonpost.com/ Read Arms Control, International in Encarta Online http://encarta.msn.com/ctc. The Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Web site, with adult reading level, is located at http://www.acda.gov. See the memorial to women in the Vietnam War at http://www.nps.gov/vive/index2.asp. Visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial online http://www.vietvet.org/thewall.asp.
Look
at what happened each year in the1980s with personal
computers in the historic timeline of computing at
http://www.tcm.org/html/history/ Search on "computer" in Encarta Online http://encarta.msn.com/ctc. Starting
with the STS-1 in 1981, information and photographs about
all shuttle missions are on this NASA Web site. What is the
next mission planned? http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/ Look up HIV and AIDS numbers for your state using the US map at http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/map. See the AIDS Quilt online at http://www.aidsquilt.org. Teacher
lesson plans and materials about AIDS are available from
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Read a history of cable TV http://www.pcta.com/histcabl.aspl. Learn
more about cable from a repairman at http://geocities.com/SiliconValley/ What did Ted Turner develop on cable in the 1980s? Look him up in Encarta Online http://encarta.msn.com/ctc. Learn more about the National Human Genome Research Institute's work at http://www.nhgri.nih.gov. Look at the chromosome map for humans at http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/ Data/#human.
Who was the screenwriter of the movie E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial? Check E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial in the Academy Awards database at http://www.academyawards.org or in the Internet Movie Database at http://us.imdb.com. Have you seen any other movies written by this author? Look up winners of the Country Music Awards during the 1980s at http://www.cma-awards.org/awards/history.aspl. Listen to Dolly Parton or other singers in the history of country music at http://www.roughstock.com/history. Did the actors in Cats like cats? Read an article at the Tony Awards site, after searching on Cats at http://www.tonys.org. Who were some famous guests on The Cosby Show? Check out the Internet Movie Database at http://us.imdb.com.
Where will the Men's and Women's NCAA teams play in this year's March Madness? Check the NCAA web site http://www.ncaa.org. Who are teams you think will be in March Madness this year? Check the sports pages to see which teams have top rankings. Read about and see video clips of Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, and Kareem Abdul-Jabar at the NBA site http://www.nba.com.
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Look up figure skating stars Scott Hamilton and Katarina Witt in the American Profiles at http://www.starsonice.com.Why was skating a part of Hamilton's life when he was a child? Read about Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus on the Senior PGA Tour at http://www.golf.com/tour/srpga/bios.How much money has each of them made from the PGA tour and the Senior PGA tour? How were the 1981, 1982, and 1983 seasons different for the San Francisco 49ers? Read the history section, called "Glory" at the team site http://www.sf49ers.com.
Visit an online museum of arcade games at http://www.videotopia.com. See some arcade and home video games in the Virtual Coin-op Museum at http://www.coinop.org. Pick out a minivan from the online car showrooms. Which has the most volume or space? Use a car site such as http://www.gm.com or http://www.ford.com or http://www.chrysler.com. Why do mountain bikes have fat tires? Visit the Science of Cycling exhibit at http://www.exploratorium.edu/cycling. How did Oprah Winfrey get started in TV? Read her biography at http://www.oprah.com/show/ oprahs-bio.aspl. Read Geraldo Rivera's proposed Bill of Rights and Responsibilities for talk shows at http://www.geraldo.com/billtxt.asp. Look up Phil Donahue in Encarta Online http://encarta.msn.com/ctc. |
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