ALEX Learning Activity Resources

   View Standards     Standard(s): [ELA2021] (6) -3 :

R4. Utilize a writing process to plan, draft, revise, edit, and publish writings in various genres.

[SS2010] USS6 (6) 10 :

10 ) Analyze changing economic priorities and cycles of economic expansion and contraction for their impact on society since World War II.

Examples: shift from manufacturing to service economy, higher standard of living, globalization, outsourcing, insourcing, "boom and bust," economic bubbles

•  Identifying policies and programs that had an economic impact on society since World War II

Examples: Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (G. I. Bill of Rights), Medicare and Medicaid, Head Start programs, space exploration, Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), environmental protection issues (Alabama)

•  Analyzing consequences of immigration for their impact on national and Alabama economies since World War II (Alabama)

This activity may serve as a final activity after a study of the 1960's Space Race. Students will utilize their prior knowledge of President Kennedy's entry into the Space Race, the role of Wernher Von Braun, and Huntsville's Marshall Space Flight Center. Students will write newspaper articles describing the policies and programs that Kennedy expanded in order to be the first to the moon. 

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Gap Project.