The study of the 1960s can provide lessons across the curriculum. Because there were so many different facets to the 1960s, you and your students can get a better feeling for the complexity and the diversity of the times by exploring all these activities.
Communication Arts Give a speech .
Students will learn about the 1960s leaders who were assassinated and prepare a speech from the perspective of one of these leaders coming back to life in the current era. They will read and discuss speeches that the 1960s leaders gave. Have students read excerpts from a letter from a Michigan nurse who served for two years in Vietnam caring for both American and Vietnamese soldiers. Then lead them in a discussion of what it must have been like to experience the war first-hand. Have students find persons in their community who served in the Vietnam War and do oral history interviews.