Project Based Learning
The Great Society Programs Poster Project
Students will become familiar with President Lyndon B Johnson’s Great Society Programs by creating informational posters and completing a gallery walk. This is an interactive, student-centered activity.
Directions: Your job is to create a poster that could have been used during the Johnson presidency to promote LBJ’s Great Society Programs. The poster should demonstrate that you understand Johnson’s place in history and what his goals were during his presidency.
What is the U.S. federal government’s role in addressing the needs of its citizens?
How has the government become more involved in addressing the economic needs of US citizens?
What was the purpose of Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society?
War on Poverty: forty programs that were intended to eliminate poverty by improving living conditions and enabling people to lift themselves out of the cycle of poverty.
Education: sixty separate bills that provided for new and better-equipped classrooms, minority scholarships, and low-interest student loans.
Medicare & Medicaid: guaranteed health care to every American over sixty-five and to low-income families.
The Environment: introduced measures to protect clean air and water.
National Endowment for the Arts and the Humanities: government funding for artists, writers and performers.
Great Society
Head Start
Job Corps Program
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Medicaid
Medicare
Segregation
Social Security Act
War on Poverty
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Economic Opportunity Act of 1964
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
Food Stamp Act of 1964
Immigration Act of 1965
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
Voting Rights Act of 1965