| Science and Society |
Portfolio Assignment # 5 |
| Goldstein and Kellar |
1961-1974 |
The Watershed Years
Directions:
Complete the following tasks and questions based on the Timeline, Critical
Thinking and Creative Outcome requirements outlined on the portfolio assignment
direction sheet:
1. Timeline
Complete a timeline for the years
1961-1974 based on the Timeline Layout requirements. (See portfolio assignment
directions sheet).
2. Significant Person
For the time period, 1961-1974, select a person who you think made the most
significant contribution to mankind for better or for worse. Cite three examples
to explain your selected person’s significance. For each example, write a
paragraph. Include a picture of this person.
3. Literature of the Time: War Memorial
Read the passages War Memorial and Wadasa Nakamoon, Vietnam Memorial and I Am a
Veteran of Vietnam from the American Odyssey text (p. 648-651). Complete
paragraphs based on the following questions:
Describe each author’s attitude toward the Vietnam War.
What is Ron Kovic’s attitude toward those who protested against it?
If you had been a teenager during the Vietnam War, what do
you think your attitudes toward the war and war protestors?
Describe your attitude toward the current war in Iraq. What is
your attitude toward people who protest and criticize the war effort?
4. Making an Impact
The inscription on Jackie Robinson’s gravestone is one of his own quotes which
reads:
“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives”
After reflecting on Jackie Robinson’s
quote, write a complete essay titled: “An Important Life”
In your essay provide and explain examples from your past, present and/or future
that show how your life has had (or will have) an impact on others.
Before writing the essay, create an outline that reflects your introduction,
body and conclusion.
5. Significant Scientific/Technological Discovery/Breakthrough
For the time period, 1961-1974, select a scientific discovery or technological
breakthrough that you believe made the most significant impact, for better or
for worse. For your selected scientific/technological event:
a. Describe or explain the discovery or breakthrough
b. Explain who the scientist(s) involved were
c. Why you believe it is the most significant scientific event of
the time
d. How the event has impacted humanity since
e. Include a visual to help explain the discovery and put a title
on the page.
6. A Planet in Crisis
The end of the 1960’s is marked by the start of a new age of awareness about the
state of Planet Earth. Using the websites listed below as a guide:
a. Using the Environmental History Timeline of 1960-1970 website at:
www.radford.edu/~wkovarik/hist1/8sixties.html and/or your Science
Timeline class notes, select five (5) environmental warnings/events of the
1960’s that were watershed moments, which caused people like Senator Gaylord
Nelson (father of Earth Day) to start environmental awareness/action movements
beginning in the 1970’s and beyond. Set up a chart or table that allows you to
provide the following information for each event:
What the event was
When and where it occurred
Why the event is significant in terms of bringing about
awareness of the state of the environment
A visual/symbol of the event
b. Using the following website:
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_1741500822_11/United_States_(Geography).html#s60
(scroll down to section E on Environmental Legislation)
In a chart format, describe each of the following responses by the U.S.
government to the growing concern over the environment, in one paragraph, as
well as what the impact of that legislation was.
The establishment of a government agency called the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) in 1970.
The establishment of the Clean Air Act of 1970.
The establishment of the Clean Water Act of 1972.
The establishment of the Endangered Species Act of 1973.
7. The Space Adventure
Using the Space Race website,
http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal114/gal114.htm complete the following
questions.
Particularly focus on the section of the site titled “A Permanent Presence in
Space”
a. Based on your knowledge of the US/Soviet Space Race, briefly explain how the
space program began as a war venture and transformed into a peace venture.
b. Based on the website link above and the following two websites, write
paragraphs explaining reasons why the space program should be continued or
discontinued. Use examples and other websites to support your opinion.
for benefits, see:
http://techtran.msfc.nasa.gov/at_home.html for cons
(costs) see:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4031857/
8. Creative Outcomes
Complete your two creative outcomes
for the years 1961-1974 based on the
Creative Outcomes requirements. (See portfolio assignment direction sheet.)
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