It has been reported that teenagers of your generation know nothing about the good ‘ole days of the 1950’s. You will explore the 1950’s, home of the Sock Hop, Drive-In Movies, and the Hula-Hoop Craze… You will also meet important and popular people like James Dean, Elvis, or Lucille Ball… you might even get involved in the atomic race. Upon arrival you and your classmates will be responsible for finding out as much as you can about the 1950’s. It will be your job to report this information back to your generation before it is too late and the decade of the 1950’s has been forgotten. However, time is wasting… So put on your bobby socks, roll up your dungarees, and away you go!!!!

  

1950s Googledocs Presentation Project

Group TopicsYour group will be assigned one of the following topics:

United States-Soviet Rivalry (Space & Arms Race) (Space Age/Race, Sputnik, NASA, Project Mercury, Explorer I, Atomic Scare/Age, Arms Race, nuclear weapons, fall-out shelters, etc.)

Technology/Inventions (inventions, medical advances, roads/highways, automobiles, air travel, television, computers, consumer goods etc.)

Music & Radio (rock n’ roll, records, radios, popular types of music, famous musicians, controversy created with new forms of music, etc.)

Television, Theater, Film (popularity, famous actors/actresses, films, drive-in movies, 3-D, comedies, etc.)

Sports (famous athletes, diversity in sports, types of sports, Olympics, televised sports, women in sports, how sports were a favorite pastime, etc.)

Art, Architecture, Books, Literature (popular books/authors, abstract art, artists, suburbia, Levittown, science fiction, etc.)

Youth Culture (clothing, toys, food, music, dancing, activities all popular for youth, generation gap, etc.)

Fads & Fashion (fads, clothing, designers, popular vacations, haircuts, styles, food, favorites, etc.)

http://www.fiftiesweb.com/

http://www.history.com/topics/st-patricks-day

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/special/mlk/index.html

http://www.fiftiesweb.com/tv50.htm

http://www.southernmusic.net/1950.htm

http://www.fiftiesweb.com/fashion/3-d-movies.htm

http://www.loti.com/

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/96summer/

http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/dwightdeisenhower/

http://history.nasa.gov/brief.html

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/sci/A0843738.html

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0917.html

http://rockhall.com/

http://www.capitalcentury.com/1951.html

http://www.zunal.com/process.php?w=83977

http://199.88.16.12/middleschool/staff/jbrunson/webquest_files/frame.htm#slide0001.htm

http://www.zunal.com/webquest.php?w=83977

*In addition to these websites, you also have the MAMS Library databases available. Please ask me for Username and Passwords