The Sixties Free

The Sixties Free is a collection of information and artifacts from the 1960s organized chronologically. When first opening The Sixties Free, users must select a year ranging from 1960 to 1969. Once a year is selected, users are presented with a brief overview of that year and are then provided with options for reading about that year in a political-cartoon format, listening to music or watching clips and trailers from movies released during that year, or viewing news reports of significant events that occurred during that year. Additionally, The Sixties Free links with Wikipedia and YouTube so users can locate more in-depth information about topics that interest them.

Instructional Ideas

1. Teachers can assign students a research project about a specific year from the 1960s or an event that occurred during the 1960s. Students can use The Sixties Free app to learn about the year or event and as a reference in their research project.
2. When teaching about a significant event from the 1960s, teachers can use The Sixties Free as an alternative to a traditional textbook. Specifically, teachers can peruse the cartoons from each year to find the political cartoon that captures the event they are teaching. Teachers can then show the political cartoon to their students and have students interpret it (either orally or in writing). Also, teachers can have students perform further reading about the event by clicking the Wikipedia button located on each slide.
3. When studying a year from the 1960s, teachers can have students view individual newsreels from that year. Because this The Sixties Free app shows multiple newsreels for each year, teachers can have students rank the clips in order of importance. Teachers will need to define the term “importance” for their students, but some ideas include the most influential event to the global stage or the enduring legacy of the event. Teachers can the instruct students to write a short paragraph that justifies either their overall rankings or ranking of each event individually.
4. Teachers can have students use The Sixties Free app to view clips from films or listen to music released in the 1960s. Teachers can then instruct students to critique the film or music based on what they liked/disliked about it or how it compares to current films or music.
5. Teachers can create a “Year in History” assignment in which students research a year and create a presentation that mirrors the year reports in The Sixties Free app. For each year, students will have to compose an overview of the year, create a series of political cartoons about significant events that happened during that year, and make hyperlinks to songs and movie trailers that were released during that year. Students can create these presentations using Prezi, Haiku Deck, Explain Everything, or another function-based app. Teachers can post these reports to their classroom website. If teachers choose to assign students these reports annually and save their work to their class website, teachers will develop a large collection of “Year in History” reports over time that can be shared with both current and future students.

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