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Black History Month Lessons and Teacher Resources:

This lesson is on Black History Month
This lesson deals exclusively with Martin Luther King
This lesson on Concept Formation involves Equality Under the Law
Here's a well developed Internet Project for teaching about the Civil Rights Movement
This lesson is for studying Kenya
This is brief idea on the Underground Railroad
A lesson on African Art and Tribal Tattoos
This lesson focuses on using Art to Record History and involves Martin Luther King Jr. and Faith Ringgold
This lesson involves Martin Luther King Jr. and Faith Ringgold to make a Quilt to Record History
This lesson is on Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad

This lesson looks at Black History in Western Expansion in America
In this civil rights lesson, students experience what discrimination is like
This exceptional interdisciplinary 10-day unit explores the secrets of the Underground Railroad:
- Unit introduction, timeline, essential questions, objectives, national standards, adaptations
- Day 1: Derailment of Human Rights:
  A Life of Slavery
- Day 2: Conductors of Freedom:
  The Role of Abolitionists and Quakers in the UGR Movement
- Day 3: Hear the Whistle Blow! -
  Musical Messages of Freedom
- Day 4: Tracking the Quilting Codes
- Day 5: Tracking the Quilting Codes - Continued
- Day 6: Underground Research
- Day 7: Underground Research - Continued
- Day 8: Route to Freedom:
  Mapping North Carolina's UGR routes
- Day 9: Riding the Rails:
  Personal Journeys to Freedom
- Day 10: Riding the Rails:
  Personal Journeys to Freedom - Continued
- UGR Unit Rubrics
- UGR Unit Bibliography And Webliography
This lesson explores the influence Langston Hughes and his poetry had on history
Here is a jazz musicians crossword puzzle idea
In "All that Jazz," students create a collage in the style of African-American artist Romare Bearden
This lesson will help your students appreciate diversity
Students print meaningful geometric Adinka Design patterns in the Ashanti tradition in this multi-disciplinary lesson
This lesson explores "The Color of We" with puppetry, poetry and paint-mixing
These "America" poems show how gender and race influence a poet's viewpoint
Coretta Scott King Award-Winner books are introduced to children in this literature lesson
This empowering lesson plan utilizes an economically-centered African American board game
This Rosa Parks history lesson incorporates reading comprehension as well
This civil rights lesson is based on the movie "Remember the Titans"
In this Modern American Abstract Art history lesson, subjects are depicted by the content of their character
This Non-Objective Art lesson also ties in with Martin Luther King Day and Black History Month
This "sending Pocket Poems to our troops" idea has its roots in Black History
This is an African-American music history awareness lesson
This is an African-American history research scavenger hunt
Here students compose their own version of Dr. King's "I have a Dream" speech
This multidisciplinary unit focuses on the significance of Martin Luther King Day and the civil rights movement
This "Youth and the Civil Rights Movement" research project uses Kuhlthau’s ISP and subject directories
The Syllabary/Analogy method is used here to decode polysyllabic words in a Rosa Parks book
Here students feel the impact of segregation and a Martin Luther King Day video is made from it
If you have any Black History Month lesson plans to share, please add them to our site!
The National Visionary Leadership Project has produced a free web-based multimedia lesson on the Civil Rights Movement. Take a look!

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