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Park View Middle School: 6th Grade- Decades

Every book a reader, every reader a book.

Student Directions

 

Student Directions

 

This project should provide the audience with an overall idea of what happened during that decade and what it would be like to live during that time period.

 

Presentation must include information about the following:

A. Music/Entertainment/Recreation/Leisure/Sports

B. US historical events

C. Fashion/Clothing/Hairstyles (men and women)

D. Inventions/Technology

Citing Sources with Google

  1.  Open a Google Doc

  2.  Tools

  3.  Citations

  4.  Add Citation source

  5.  Change source type to website or whichever type of source you used

  6.  Search for URL or whatever information that is asked for

  7.  Continue

  8. Add citation source

  9. Continue to cite all sources using the steps 1-8.  Citations will all stack up on the right hand side of the document.

  10. When all sources have been cited, place cursor where you want the citation to appear in your works cited page

  11. Click Insert Works Cited

U.S. historical events

The PDF files below are from: encyclopedia.com

Encyclopedia.com | Free Online Encyclopedia, http://encyclopedia.com. Accessed 9 April 2025.

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Food

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The following pdfs are from foodtimeline.org

Food Timeline: food history research service, http://foodtimeline.org. Accessed 9 April 2025.

Fashion/Clothing/Hairstyle (men and women)

The information below came from: 

retrowaste.com

“Retrowaste.” Retrowaste: Vintage Fashion, Toys, Cars, Memoribilia and More, https://www.retrowaste.com/. Accessed 17 03 2025.

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Inventions/Technology

Toys

Prices