THE 1980s

This week we are learning about the 1980sHere are your challenges for the week:

1. Read this powerpoint about the 1980s.

2. Write a set of questions about the 1980s that would help you to learn more about that decade.

3. Research the answers to your questions, using the internet or by interviewing someone in your family who was alive during the 1980s.

4. Using the sheet linked in the weekly overview plan, rank the inventions of the 1980s from most to least important. Then explain why you chose your top three and last invention.

5. Choose three important elements from the 1980s from the list below and use them to make an information page about the 1980s.Music, fashion, TV and film, inventions, cars, news and events

EXTRA CHALLENGE - Write a letter to a child in the 80’s and you are from the future/today! Explain all the things which have changed e.g. emails instead of letters, mobile phones instead of home phones, changes in music and fashion etc.

E.T.Top Gun

Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost ArkGremlinsSuperman

Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes BackAliens

Back to the FutureStar Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

Dirty DancingBeverley Hills Cop

Ghostbusters

Introduction to 1980s Movies

Television

Ivor the Engine

Bagpuss

The most popular TV shows were:

Scooby-Doo

MadonnaMichael Jackson

Bruce SpringsteenPrince

Duran Duran Tina Turner

Wham!Cyndi LauperCulture ClubAnnie Lennox

PrinceThe CureQueen

Kate Bush

Introduction to 1980s Pop Stars

In the US.:Whitney HoustonMichael Jackson Bruce Springsteen Tina TurnerBon Jovi PrinceMadonna

In the UK:David BowieRoxy Music Adam and the Ants Culture ClubSpandau Ballet Duran DuranBucks FizzFrankie Goes To Hollywood

Music

The 1980s were a fashion era marked by bright colours, bold shapes, big hair and unique textures. By the mid-80s, the Western world was experiencing an economic boom and many people wanted to express their wealth in clothing.

The early ‘80s continued the health craze of the 1970s, leading to an obsession with athletic wear. Late ‘80s women’s fashion embraced the trend of power dressing, as more women entered the workforce and moved towards management positions.

Punk style emerged as a rejection of the materialistic trends of 80s fashion.

1980s Fashion

Fashion

Toys

My Little Pony

Cabbage Patch Kids

He-Man

Guess Who? game

Rubik’s cube

Game Boy

TransformersMr. Potato Head

Jenga

The top selling cars of the 1980s were:

4. Ford Sierra

10. Austin Maestro

9. Vauxhall Nova

8. Ford Orion

7. Ford Cortina

6. Vauxhall Astra5. Austin Metro

3. Vauxhall Cavalier

2. Ford Fiesta

1. Ford Escort

SPACE SHUTTLEThe first American Space

Shuttle named Columbia was launched on April12th 1981. The space journey lasted 54 hours

and 21 minutes .

THE CDCDs were launched in 1982, but only

1,000 titles were available by the end of 1983.

The first album was Billy Joel's 52nd Street and the first song, released on

the first CD, was The Visitors by ABBA. Dire Straits' Brothers In Arms

CD was the first to sell over one million copies making it the world's

most successful CD album.

THE PERSONAL COMPUTER IBM released its IBM 5150 on 12 August 1981. The IBM 5150 had a 16-bit 8088 processor running at 4.77MHz, 16KB memory that was expandable to 256k, floppy disk drives, two RS-232 serial interfaces, and an optional colour monitor. The ROM had BASIC built-in and ran DOS 1.0, the operating system that brought us Microsoft.

THE MOBILE PHONEMotorola launched the DynaTAC 8000x in 1983 with the

dimensions of 300x44x89mm and weighing in at a lovely and light 785g. It proudly offered you about one hour of talk time, used an LED display and had an extremely attractive

aerial!

DNA FINGERPRINTINGIn 1984, British geneticist Alec Jeffreys accidentally

discovered that every person has a unique DNA profile. The unique genetic profiles are derived from the profiles of one's

parents, which means that lineage can be traced back through generations with DNA testing. Alec Jeffreys was

knighted for his invention that changed the face of science forever. The world of forensic science owes its development

to DNA fingerprinting.

ARTIFICIAL HUMAN HEARTThe first artificial heart was implanted

into a man named Dr. Barney Clark on December 2 1982. He

survived for 112 days. The heart was created by Dr. Robert Jarvik and

perfected over years of experimentation. The artificial heart's shape and design were oval so that it would fit into the

human chest.

OTHER INVENTIONS INCLUDED:Hepatitis Vaccine

Disposable Contact lensesDisposable Cameras

CamcorderFirst 3-D Video Game

Synthetic Skin

Games

WOW!

Events of the 1980s

Oh my

goodness!

Did you see that?

News/Events

1980

John Lennon was an English musician who gained worldwide fame as a member of The Beatles, for his subsequent solo career, and for his political activism and pacifism. He was shot by Mark David Chapman at the entrance to the building where he lived, The Dakota, in New

York City on 8 December 1980. Lennon had just returned from Record Plant Studio with his wife, Yoko Ono.

1981The wedding of Charles, Prince

of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer took place on

Wednesday 29 July 1981 at St Paul's Cathedral, London. Their marriage was widely

billed as a "fairytale wedding" and the "wedding of the

century". It was watched by an estimated global TV

audience of 750 million. The United Kingdom had a national

holiday on that day to mark the wedding.

1982

On 2 April 1982, Argentine forces launched the invasion of the Falkland Islands beginning the Falklands War.

1985

Live Aid was a concert held on 13 July 1985. The event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for relief of the ongoing Ethiopian famine. The event was held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London and John F.

Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It was one of the largest-scale satellite link-ups and television broadcasts of all time: an

estimated global audience of 1.9 billion, across 150 nations, watched the live broadcast.

1989

On November 10 1989, East and West Berliners flocked to the Berlin Wall, which had separated their city for 28 years, drinking beer and champagne and chanting “Tor auf!” (“Open the gate!”). At midnight, they flooded through the checkpoints. People used hammers and picks to knock away chunks of the wall–

they became known as “mauerspechte,” or “wall woodpeckers”—while cranes and bulldozers pulled down section after section. Soon the wall was gone and Berlin

was united for the first time since 1945. “Only today,” one Berliner spray-painted on a piece of the wall, “is the war really over.”

This week we are learning about the 1980s

Here are your challenges for the week:

1. Read this powerpoint about the 1980s.

2. Write a set of questions about the 1980s that would help you to learn more about that decade.

3. Research the answers to your questions, either using the internet or by interviewing someone in your family who was alive during the 1980s.

4. Choose three important elements of the 1980s from the list below and use them to make an information page about the 1980s.

Music, fashion, TV and film, inventions, cars, news and events

EXTRA CHALLENGEWrite a letter to a child in the 80’s and you are from the future/today! Explain all the things which have changed e.g. emails instead of letters, mobile phones instead of home phones, changes in music and fashion etc.