Format
1. Learn about the life and death of President John F. Kennedy.
2. Use teaching artifacts to explore what they tell us about the 1960's.
3. Analyze photographs and artworks from the Museum’s collections.
4. Document the connection between significant people and events to President Kennedy.
5. Document the connection between significant people and events to the 1960s.
6. Create artwork that documents their own lives.
7. Create artwork that documents their connections to history.
Objectives
1. Examine photographs and artworks from the Museum’s collections.
2. Identify people and events connected to President Kennedy and the 1960s.
Standards Alignment
National Standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.4.RL.6 -- Compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first- and third-person narrations.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.5.RL.6 -- Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.6-8.RH.2 -- Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.Grade 5-12
Standard 3: Domestic policies after World War II.
Major Concept 3b: The student understands the “New Frontier” and the “Great Society.”
Description [and Historical Thinking Standard] Evaluate the domestic policies of Kennedy’s “New Frontier.” [Hold interpretations of history as tentative.]
State Standards
Grade 5 Social Studies 16.b.5, 20
Grade 6 Social Studies 18.b.2
Grade 7 Social Studies 19.b.20
§113.41. United States History Studies Since 1877 2; 24
Grade 4 Fine Arts 114.b.1 and 2
Grade 5 Fine Arts 117.b.1-3
Art Middle School 1 Fine Arts 202.c.1-3
Art Middle School 2 Fine Arts 203.b.1 and 2
Art Middle School 3 Fine Arts 204.b.1.A and 2.A, 2.D
Art Level 1 Fine Arts 302.c.1.A and 2.D
Art Level 2 Fine Arts 303.c.1.A, 2.A, 2.D
Art Level 2 Fine Arts 304.c.1.A and 2.A and D
Art Level 3 Fine Arts 305.c.1.A and 2.A