CLassroom activities, etc

 

Classroom Activities, etc

Check here for news, schedule info, updates, etc. as the year goes on.  Please check for updates, etc. during the year.



1950s-1990s Web Resources

  1. 1)Here’s FLOCABULARY with the last 18 years in rap (1994-2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-dnazLrR2I


Civil Rights Movement Resources

1) Brown vs Board of Education ruling: 

This website has a nice summary of the Supreme Court ruling on whether segregation in schools was Constitutional or not.

http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/brown_v__board_of_education.htm


2) Little Rock Nine:  Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas

This website takes a look at the whole situation.  Check out the links at the bottom

http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/ar1.htm


3) Birmingham, Alabama protests

This clip from Youtube summarizes the event.  Check out the segment showing the firehoses and police dogs being used on protesters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joc3CRL6x4E


4) Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr

A) Here is a chart comparing the two Civil Rights leaders who had different styles.  Analyze it

http://www.cyberlearning-world.com/nhhs/project/1998/xandking.htm


B) Watch these two men debate on this Youtube clip and see what you can tell about each

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4PqLKWuwyU


5) The Assassination of Martin Luther, King Jr.

A) Here is a quick video summary surrounding the event and days following

http://www.5min.com/Video/The-Assassination-of-Martin-Luther-King-Jr-120053253



1960s-90s Unit


THE 1960s:

1) Cuban Missile Crisis Interactive:  You’re the President (Kennedy) and you have to avoid nuclear war with the Soviet Union.  Can you succeed?

http://teachingamericanhistory.org/neh/interactives/cubanmissilecrisis/


- Outstanding site to explore the Cuban Missile Crisis and what might have been: cloudsovercuba.com


- The World War Three files: terrifyingly detailed plans for nuclear armageddon  tinyurl.com/95bgsb5


- Great site with JFK era interactives! Missile Crisis, Ole Miss, Moon Landing, etc

jfklibrary.org/Exhibits/Inter…


2) President Kennedy Assassination:  Dallas, Texas

A) Great website from Investigation Discovery on the story (lots to see here!)

http://investigation.discovery.com/investigation/history/crimes-century/jfk/kennedy.html


B) Here is the History Channel’s video summary of the event

http://www.history.com/videos/john-f-kennedy-assassinated#john-f-kennedy-assassinated


C) Conspiracy?? History Channel’s video summary of Conspiracy Theories surrounding it

http://www.history.com/videos/jfk-assassion-conspiracy-theories#jfk-assassion-conspiracy-theories


3) The Vietnam War: 

A) This website uses photos (and some text) to help explain the Vietnam War.  There’s a lot to check out so spend some time here to work your way through.

http://www.vietnampix.com/intro.htm


B) Guerilla Warfare:  This was a major tactic used by the Viet Cong

http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/guerrilla/index.html


C) The Tet Offensive:  This was seen as a turning point of the war.  See this Youtube summary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw8h4Z091Ik


4) 1968 Presidential Election:

Perform a Google Search of the 1968 Presidential Election.  Who won?  Who’d he defeat?  By how much?  Why was this important?


5) Robert F. Kennedy assassination:

Here is a website that covers the assassination of Pres. John F. Kennedy’s brother Robert (who was running for President)

http://bobby-kennedy.com/rfkassassination.htm


6) Man on the Moon:

Check out this interactive website all about the historic day the U.S. landed on the moon

http://wechoosethemoon.org/



THE 1970s:

1) The Kent State Shootings:

Check out this website of the article from the NY Times about the day college students were shot at a Vietnam War protest by U.S. troops at Kent State University

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0504.html


2) The Watergate Scandal:

Read this brief summary of the Watergate events that led to the resignation of Presiden Nixon

http://www.pbs.org/johngardner/chapters/6c.html


3) The Iran Hostage Crisis:

This website gives a good summary, picture by picture, of the crisis situation

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/04/middle_east_iran_hostage_crisis/html/1.stm


4) Economic Problems of the 1970s

This website summarizes the problems that Americans had with money in the 70s

http://elcoushistory.tripod.com/economics1970.html




THE 1980s:

1) President Reagan is shot:

This CBS news video shows just how close we came to losing another President to an assassin

http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-3445_162-20047616.html


2) Macintosh arrives (helping usher in the personal computer era)

Check out this advertisement for the 1984 Macintosh personal computer (and features is has!)

http://toastbucket.com/apple1984ad/


3) Space Shuttle Challenger disaster

A) Here’s the video footage that thousands of viewers (many of them schoolchildren) saw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4JOjcDFtBE


B) Here’s a good summary of the event, its causes, etc.

http://www.aerospaceguide.net/spaceshuttle/challenger_disaster.html


4) Mikhail Gorbachev and the USSR

A) This website has a brief summary of this Soviet leader and how he helped change their government

http://www.historyguide.org/europe/gorbachev.html


B) This Youtube video shows how Gorbachev and Pres. Reagan got along well (which helps!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0IJEwD5U8Q


5) The Fall of the Berlin Wall

This website has a summary and pictures from a person who chronicled his time as the Berlin Wall came down.  Make sure you take the “Day Tour” of photos, etc.

http://www.remote.org/frederik/culture/berlin/


THE 1990s:

1) The fall of the Soviet Union and new leader Boris Yeltsin

A) Here’s a student producted project (on Youtube) about the fall of the Soviet Union

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCFREwQ846o


B) Here’s a biography/summary of Boris Yeltsin of Russia

http://www.biography.com/people/boris-yeltsin-9538949


2) The Persian Gulf War

A) Here is a good summary of the Persian Gulf War

http://www.military.com/Resources/HistorySubmittedFileView?file=history_gulfwar.htm

B) Here’s the History Channel’s listing of related videos for this war

http://www.history.com/topics/persian-gulf-war/videos#gulf-war-weaponry-pounds-iraq


3) the Rodney King Trial and the Los Angeles riots of 1992

A) CBS News takes a look back at the beating of Rodney King in this video

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=1344797n


B) CBS News takes a look back at the riots (in response to the King trial results) in this video

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=2738802n


4) Bill Clinton wins the Presidential election of 1992

A) Encyclopedia Brittanica summarizes the election

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1574499/United-States-presidential-election-of-1992


B) Clinton on the Arsenio Hall show (did he show he was “hip” enough to win the election?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LhgGs4TrYA


5) 1993 World Trade Center bombing (NOT the 9/11 attacks!)

This website has a good summary of the event and those involved,

http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2008/february/tradebom_022608


6) OJ Simpson Trial

A) Great website from Investigation Discovery about the trial.  A lot of things to see here!

http://investigation.discovery.com/investigation/history/crimes-century/oj-simpson/oj-simpson.html


B) This website has some good summary pages of the physical evidence for the trial (click on the different pages on the left hand side for the info)

http://ojsimpsoncase.wikispaces.com/1.+OJ+Simpson+Case+Summary+


7) Oklahoma City Bombing

A) Here’s a good summary of the event from the FBI

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/famous-cases/oklahoma-city-bombing


B) Here’s the website for the Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial

http://www.oklahomacitynationalmemorial.org/


8) Dolly (the sheep) is cloned

Here’s a good summary from USA today about this event

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/genetics/2006-07-04-dolly-anniversary_x.htm


9) Impeachment of President Clinton

A) Here’s a timeline of the events

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/clinton/clintonchrono.html


10) The Millennium (Y2K) Bug

A) A very brief (but good) summary

http://www.y2ktimebomb.com/


B) a more detailed summary from Encyclopedia Brittanica

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/382740/Y2K-bug






WWII web resources

1) Check out this “The Price of Freedom” online exhibit.  This has links to all of America’s wars (but choose the WWII one for this activity)

http://americanhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/exhibition/flash.html


2) Check out History.com’s interactive WWII experience (click on different areas on the map to see interactives, etc.)

http://www.history.com/shows/wwii-in-hd/interactives/inside-wwii-interactive


  1. 3)This is an outstanding interactive site titled “D-Day to Victory”!

http://www.ddaytovictory.ca/


4) See the link below for information regarding the Nazi concentration camp system

http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007720


5)  See the link below for information regarding the Holocaust (from the Museum of WWII)

http://www.museumofworldwarii.com/TourText/Area07_Holocaust.htm


  1. 6)A very nice collection of Holocaust links

cybraryman.com/holocaust.html


KNOW YOUR STATES:  Practice here for our states map quizzes!

http://www.ilike2learn.com/ilike2learn/unitedstates.html