Related pages :

Presidents' Day

History :

• Search the Web for U.S. History of the 1930s. (Education World)
  " Learn the stories behind the stamps issued by the United States Postal Service commemorating the people, places, events, and trends of the 1930s."
  (Présentation des timbres suivie de questions - Il faut chercher les réponses aux sites indiqués.)
  
  

• U.S. every day life in 1900 and in 1998 - compare (time.com)

• Oklahoma City Bombing (April 19, 1995) - (about.com)
  
  

Themes :

• AL CAPONE :
  
  
  • St. Valentine's Day Massacre with Pictures - 1929 - Al Capone True Crime Story (mysterynet)
    
    
    
    
    
• KENNEDY :
  
  
  
  • John Fitzgerald Kennedy Biography (teachervision.fen.com)

    

  
  
  

• A map of the route taken by President Kennedy on the day he was assassinated (Histoy on the Net)
  
  

 

• Kennedy Family Tree - avec liens (PBS)

 

• Timeline: Kennedy Family Chronology (PBS)

 

• The Kennedys - People & Events (PBS) :
  The Kennedy Fortune - The Kennedys and Politics - The Kennedys and Civil Rights -
  John Kennedy and Foreign Policy - Public People, Private Lives -
  Early Deaths and Accidents
  
  

 

• see Kennedy

   

• MacARTHUR :
  
  
  • MacArthur -
    "Follow MacArthur on an interactive map as he travels around the world" (PBS)
    
    
    
    
    
    
• Marilyn MONROE :
  
  
  • Marilyn Monroe - Documents (majesticdocuments.com)
    

   

• Roswell :
  
  
  • UFOs - THE ROSWELL STORY - dossier (science.howstuffworks.com)
    
    
    
    
    
    
• FIFTIES and SIXTIES :
  
  

  • Fifties and Sixties
    "The FiftiesWeb began as a site devoted to the 50s.
    Since then it has expanded to include Classic TV from the Sixties, 70s and even some 80s TV shows. 
    Fifties fashion wasn't enough, everybody wanted to see hippie clothes. so Sixties Fashion was added. 
    Movie quotes now cover all decades. 
    Celebrity Deaths pays tribute to those who have died.
    There is tons of information about Elvis Presley  not to mention the Beatles. 
    Included with history of the Fifties, a feature was added about the Sixties Kennedy Assasination..."
    (fiftiesweb.com)

Listening :

• The 1900s® The Sounds Of The 20th Century (archer2000)
  "American news and lifestyle headlines from 1900 to 1999 ...plus a century of sound."
  (audio-clips un peu courts).
  On peut imaginer un exercice de "matching" (who ? / did what ?/ when ?)

• Voices of the 20th Century (eyewitnesstohistory.com)
  - ex : Hiroshima, 1945 - "Col. Paul Tibbets describes dropping the A-Bomb on Hiroshima, 1945."

  

Activities :

• Living in the Tenements - a knowledge hunt :
  "Cette activité vous demande d'entrer dans la vie quotidienne des gens pauvres dans les grandes villes américaines il y a un siècle, qui habitaient entassés dans de grands immeubles appelés "tenements" ou "tenement buildings". (Philip BENTZ)

• U.S. every day life in 1900 and in 1998 - compare (time.com)

• "Find out what life was like for children in the second world war "
  (woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk)

Games :

• Presidents of the Twentieth Century Crossword - interactive (surnetkids)

• Presidents Games (gamequarium.com)