Sixties and Seventies

Task:

Students will complete a Power Point / Google Slides or Spark Video / Adobe Voice presentation that will introduce one of the events that occurred during the 1960's and 1970's.

Your Power Point / Google Slides presentation must be at least 7 minutes in length, and will need to include bulleted information as well as images. If you choose to complete a video it will only have to be 3 minutes in length. You can work in pairs.

Although you will have information on the slides, you will be required to expand on it while presenting.

Please keep in mind the following while you are preparing and researching: Who, What, When, Where, Why and How

Please be thorough; this will be a quiz grade


Topics:

1970's

  • Feminist Movement
  • Gay Liberation Movement
  • Counterculture Music
  • Counterculture Movement
  • Environmental Movement
  • Watergate
  • Iran Hostage Crisis
  • Cesar Chavez / Farm Worker Movement

Vietnam War:

  • Antiwar Movement
  • Tet Offensive
  • War in the Jungle
  • Hawks and Doves
  • Election of 1968