The 1960's

Here are some videos I found for our discussion 1960's:

This montage is helpful in hearing how music changed through the decade:


This montage is simply one person's opinoin on the best songs of the decade, but it is still helpful in that it shows the variety of styles and fashisions of artists of the 1960's"


"All You Need is Love" was first performed by The Beatles on "Our World", the first live global television link. Watched by 400 million in 26 countries, the program was broadcast via satellite on 25 June 1967. The BBC had commissioned the Beatles to write a song for the UK's contribution. Rolling Stone magazine ranked it at #362 in their 500 greatest songs of all time.


Bob Dylan's "Subterranian Homesick Blues", 1965:


First moon landing, 1969:


The Early Show looks back the 1960's:

Experiencing the 1950's

As an introduction to the 1950's, social studies classes spent a little bit of time trying to "experience" that period. We listened to 45rpm records, hula-hooped, tossed the frisbee around, learned to dance The Twist, and even sang "Summertime Blues" together. Here is a video I put together featuring some of these activities:

Rock and Roll Comes to TV

The 1950's

We are begining our study of contemporary American society, in which we will look at American culture and significant events in the second half of the 20th Century. Here are some videos from the first decade we will be learning about, the 1950's:

The End of the Cold War

The following videos show two different perspectives as to how, and why, the Cold War ended: