Group Activity :
Group Activity Answer the following questions for the generational group:
Who were their heroes?
How did they have fun? relevant music?
What unique contributions did they make to the world? Name some first or identifiers from that era.
NOTE: One word answers or short phrases are best.
Life Events Defining Generations :
Life Events Defining Generations 1930s Great Depression, Election of FDR
1940s Pearl Harbor, D-Day, Death of FDR VE and VJ Day, Hiroshima
1950s Korean War, TV in every home, McCarthy hearings, Rock ‘n Roll, Salk polio vaccine
1960s Vietnam, Kennedy elected, Civil Rights movement, Kennedy/King assassinations, Moon landing, Woodstock
Life Events Defining Generations :
Life Events Defining Generations 1970s Oil Embargo, Nixon resigns, first PCs, Women’s Rights movement
1980s Challenger explosion, Fall of Berlin Wall, John Lennon shot, Reagan elected
1990s Desert Storm, Oklahoma City bombing, Death of Princess Diana, Clinton scandals
Life Styles of the Generations :
Life Styles of the Generations
Wedged between Generations? :
Wedged between Generations? “Cuspers”:
one who’s on the ‘cusp’ between one generation and the next
Birth years defining the generations aren’t carved in stone
You might identify with more than one generation if you birth years falls near/beginning/end of a given range
Valuable in the workforce