War In Vietnam
Learn about the Vietnam War. Get the code from Mr. Ferlazzo.
Complete this activity about the Watergate scandal. Get the code from Mr. Ferlazzo. It is not directly connected to the War, but happened in this time period.
Learn about free speech for students to protest the war. Get the code from Mr. Ferlazzo.
Learn about the War Powers Act. Get the code from Mr. Ferlazzo.
ON YOUR OWN
Watch this movie about the Vietnam War and take the quizzes.
Watch this slideshow about the Vietnam War era.
Use this map and watch the video.
Watch these videos about the war.
Watch this video.
Watch this video and look at the other images.
This is not necessarily directly connected to the Vietnam War, but watch these videos on President Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal.
Watch this movie about President Nixon and take the quizzes.
Learn more about the Vietnam War here.
Learn about the Hmong and the Vietnam War at these links:
Hmong leader General Vang Pao recently died. You can read about him in The New York Times
The BBC also has a good article and additional resources on his death — Laos general and Hmong leader Vang Pao dies in exile.
The Los Angeles Times also has an obituary.
Thousands Gather To Mourn Hmong Leader Vang Pao is the title of the NPR story on the six day funeral in Fresno for Hmong leader General Vang Pao.
The Los Angeles Times has both an impressive slideshow and useful article on the General’s funeral.
The New York Times also has both a slideshow and article about the General’s funeral.
For the Hmong, an enduring sense of exile is an op ed from The Washington Post.
Hmong Facts is from The Minnesota Historical Society.
WITH A PARTNER
Learn about the Jungle War In Vietnam.
Read about the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the war.
Read about the Hmong and the war.
See this video of the fall of Saigon.
Watch this video of helicopter attack scene from Apocalypse Now movie.
SPANISH LANGUAGE PREVIEW:
President John F. Kennedy
ON YOUR OWN:
Watch this movie about President Kennedy and take the quizzes.
WITH A PARTNER:
Read about Kennedy’s life.
SPANISH LANGUAGE PREVIEW:
Cesar Chavez And The Farm Workers
ON YOUR OWN
Watch this movie about Cesar Chavez and take the quizzes.
Watch this video about Chavez.
Learn about the short-handled hoe and make a museum “exhibit.”
Learn more about Cesar Chavez here.
WITH A PARTNER
Read more about Chavez.
Copy and paste this cloze on your Posterous blog and complete it.
SPANISH LANGUAGE PREVIEW:
Americans Travel In Space
ON YOUR OWN
Watch this movie on the Apollo Project and take the quizzes.
Watch this movie about the International Space Station and take the quizzes.
Watch these videos about the U.S. experiences in space travel.
Here’s more history of space travel.
Learn more about space travel here.
Learn more about space travel at the Animated History of The Space Program. Be sure to click on the lower left hand corner to see the words that are spoken, and use the menu on the upper right to explore all the great activities.
In video: Nasa’s 50 years in space
Watch these videos.
WITH A PARTNER
From Gagarin to the space shuttle: A history of human spaceflight – interactive is from The Guardian.
Copy and paste this cloze about John Glenn on your Posterous blog and complete it.
Copy and paste this cloze about Sally Ride on your Posterous blog and complete it.
Complete this exercise on the first Moon Landing.
SPANISH LANGUAGE PREVIEW:
Martin Luther King, Jr.
ON YOUR OWN
Watch these movies and take the quizzes:
Learn about Rosa Parks.
Learn about the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Listen To Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech and find the mistakes.
Watch this video of King
Here’s another video about King.
Watch this movie about the Civil Rights Movement.
If there’s time, you can watch the short videos on this page.
Learn about the Freedom Rides.
WITH A PARTNER
Read about King and answer the questions.
Read about the Civil Rights Movement and take Quiz 1 and Quiz 2.
Learn more about Martin Luther King here.
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America During The 1950′s
ON YOUR OWN
Learn about Technology in the 1950′s. Be sure to click on the lower left hand corner so you can see the words that are being spoken.
Watch this slideshow about the 1950′s.
Watch this movie about Elvis Presley and take the quizzes.
African-Americans won the right to a good education in 1954. Watch this movie about the court case and take the quizzes.
Learn about school segregation in 1952.
Watch these videos about the polio vaccine that was made in the 1950′s.
Learn about Senator Joseph McCarthy and his attack on people he claimed were Communists.
Watch the videos on this page about issues in the 1950′s.
WITH A PARTNER
Read about President Harry Truman.
Read about President Dwight Eisenhower.
The Cold War
Learn about the Cuban Missle crisis. Get the code from Mr. Ferlazzo.
ON YOUR OWN
Watch this movie about The Cold War and take the quizzes.
Watch this movie about the United Nations and take the quizzes.
Learn more about the United Nations here.
Watch this movie about The Korean War and take the quizzes.
Learn more about the Korean War.
Explore The Best Sites For Learning About The Korean War (& Tensions Since Then, Too).
Learn more about The Cold War.
Learn about Europe after World War II. Be sure to click on the lower left hand corner so you can see the words that are spoken.
Learn about Southeast Asia in 1954,
Watch the videos on this page.
Watch some of these videos about The Cuban Missile Crisis.
Learn more about the Cuban Missile Crisis. Click on “subtitles” so you can see the words as they are spoken.
Look at this chart about the Cold War.
WITH A PARTNER
Take this test about what happened after World War II. Play this game, too.
Here’s another test about the Cold War.
And here’s one more test.
Learn about The Berlin Wall.
Two nice sites on the Berlin Wall are a series of photos from The Denver Post and aninteractive from The Guardian.
Read more about the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The Presidency and the Cold War
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