1. 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!!!!

2. 1.Your group will consist of three or four investigators, and each member will have a specific area of research. You will become an expert in the area of research you are assigned. Gather as much information as you can and be ready to report back to your group 2.Use on-line resources and once everyone has investigated their subject area, you will put your research together and create a 5-7 slide Googledocs Presentation summarizing the information you gathered. 3.Be sure to include the following on each slide: a. Titles, pictures, and captions b. Written information 1950s Googledocs Presentation Project

3. Group Topics Your 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.)

4. http://www.fiftiesweb.com/ http://www.history.com/topics/st-patricks-day http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/special/m lk/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/public roads/96summer/ http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/president s/dwightdeisenhower/ http://history.nasa.gov/brief.html http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/sci/A0843 738.html http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/o nthisday/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/jbr unson/webquest_files/frame.htm#slide00 01.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