Postwar America: 1945-1970
Americans experienced many changes during the post-World War II period: science and technology made giant advances; music and clothing styles changed dramatically. The trade books and student activities in Postwar America: 1945-1970 help students take a closer look at some of the significant changes in American society during those postwar years, including the civil rights movement, the U.S. space program, and the power of television.
The trade books for the Primary section of this unit are A Picture Book of John F. Kennedy; Mama, Do You Love Me?; Cracking the Wall; and My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother. The trade books for the Upper Elementary portion of the unit are If You Lived at the Time of Martin Luther King; A Blue-Eyed Daisy; Footprints on the Moon; and The Gold Cadillac. The unit does not include the actual children's literature books.
About the Series:
Social Studies curriculum units contain complete lesson plans with preliminary and follow-up work, teacher notes with background and rationale, ready-to-use worksheets, and suggested answers for student questions. These materials encourage the development of thinking, reading, speaking, research, and writing skills as well as critical thinking skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
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Student Activities
Classroom activities include preparing and hosting a luau; using supply and demand to set the price of a new item; creating an exercise machine for the space program; voting for or against the Marshall Plan; and retracing the route of the Freedom Riders. Students also paint in the op-art style of Andy Warhol, create fashions similar to those in the 1950s and 1960s, and write a singer’s biography. Although activities are organized into primary and upper elementary sections, many assignments can be adapted to suit either age group.
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