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Grade 5 Social Studies · World 7: Civil Rights · Level 75
Television
Explain how TV changed American life.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 75
- Here's a change you can read in a table. In 1950, only about 9 percent of American homes had a television. Twenty years later, nearly all did.
- Families gathered around shows and sports. Advertisers reached millions of homes at once, and people across the country watched the same things.
- TV changed politics. In 1960, Americans watched John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon debate. How candidates looked and sounded began to matter as much as what they said.
- TV changed what people knew. Americans saw police attack marchers in the South, and soldiers in Vietnam. It's much harder to ignore what you can see.
- Try it with a grown-up: ask what TV was like when your grandparents were young.
Georgia Standards of Excellence in Social Studies:
- SS5H6.d — Discuss the significance of the technologies of television and space exploration.