Black History - Activity - As We Contribute To All Areas Of It could be an especially worthwhile contribution to black history Month (February), TEACHING TIPS. Review the timeline in The Britannica Guide to black http://www.britannica.com/Blackhistory/activity5.jsp
Cobblestone Publishing - Teaching African American History Teaching African American history. An integral facet of American history that isoften Civil Rights Movement for Kids A history with 21 activities http://www.cobblestonepub.com/pages/AfricanUSHist.html
Teaching History Online: 13 black history Museum This creative website provides several interactive exhibits history Website Directory All websites reviewed in Teaching history http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/history13.htm
Extractions: Spartacus Educational publishes Teaching History Online every week. The newsletter includes news, reviews of websites and articles on using ICT in the history classroom. Members of the mailing list are invited to submit information for inclusion in future editions of Teaching History Online . In this way we hope to create a community of people involved in using the Internet to teach history. Currently there are 15,068 subscribers to the newsletter. spartacus@pavilion.co.uk Black History Museum : This creative website provides several interactive exhibits on Black History. This includes Black Resistance: Slavery in the U.S., The Tuskegee Airman, Jackie Robinson, Black Panther Party, Black or White, The Million Man March, The Scottsboro Boys and This Is Our War. There is also a Kid's Zone with a collection of games and brain teasers. Active History : "Probably the best history website around" is how
School History Websites black history, American West, Spanish Civil War and history of Russia. Offers discussions on teaching, suggestions, ideas, trials of ICT and history http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/historywebsites.htm
Extractions: Spartacus Educational : Established in September 1997, the Spartacus Educational website provides a series of history encyclopedias. Titles currently include : 1900-1945. Entries usually include a narrative, illustrations and primary sources. The text within each entry is linked to other relevant pages in the encyclopedia. In this way it is possible to research individual people and events in great detail. The sources are also hyper-linked so the student is able to find out about the writer, artist, newspaper and organization that produced the material. Thinking History : Ian Dawson's Thinking History website is an attempt to make good quality active learning ideas freely available to teachers all round the country. A book of activities has never been a practical proposition but a website offers the chance to build up a menu of activities. It also includes several examples of the same model of activity for different topics. Thinking History will build up slowly over the next couple of years, starting with a dozen activities in September and then adding others each month, hopefully including activities submitted by teachers. Ask an Historian A group of history websites are now offering a new service to its visitors. In future people will be able to ask a panel of experts, questions about history. The panels include teachers, historians, authors and researchers with expert knowledge of the period. Where possible, people with actual experience of these events, will also join the various panels. The following sections are currently available:
African American Resources A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of black history Culture . From the Teaching American Literature (TAMLIT) archive at Georgetown http://dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/afri.html
Extractions: an on-line presentation of the African in America. A historical perspective of a nation, its people, and its cultural evolution. From the beginning of the slave trade through the Civil Rights movement, to the present. Information that will give you a better understanding of the problems we face today as a nation. African Voices (Smithsonian Natural History Web)
Smithsonian Education - African American Heritage Teaching Resources Educational information, activities and resources for educators, families, Frederick Douglass Encyclopedia Smithsonian African American history and http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/resource_library/african_american_
Multicultural Lesson Plans And Resources Teaching and discussion activities related to five works by black HistoryInformation and lesson activities from the Social Studies School Service. http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/edmulticult.htm
Extractions: Multicultural Lesson Plans and Resources Use this page to find multicultural lesson plans and resources. Scroll down the page, or click on a topic below. This page was last updated 1-20-05. Site Index: Collections/General Multicultural Lesson Plans, Teaching Tolerance, Art, Literature, ... Arab Americans/Moslems Try these great offers:
Preschool Spring Theme Activities For Teaching Young Children Preschool, daycare and prek activities for spring that blossom into earlychildhood lesson Starting on the left side, draw a black seed in the soil. http://www.preschoolrainbow.org/preschool-spring.htm
Extractions: Activities for Teaching Young Children Print this Theme Preschool education activities for spring that blossom into early childhood education lesson plans for teaching pre-k children pre reading, counting and the science skills of observation and prediction. Hot and cold cooking experiences enhance seasonal learning activities. Please help this page blossom by sharing your ideas
Lessons For Black History Month > Order Materials Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lesson plans. Citizenship skills. Teaching citizenshipskills. Martin Luther King Holiday. Teacher curriculum. http://www.teachkind.org/feat/bhm/order_materials.html
COOL TEACHING LESSONS AND UNITS black history Links is a web page with links to sites which help describe This is definitely worth a look by anyone teaching US history at any level! http://www.coollessons.org/coolunits.htm
Extractions: COOL TEACHING LESSONS AND UNITS ALONG WITH RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS Short Cuts: WEBQUEST UNITS RESEARCH MODULES ONLINE PROJECTS READY MADE UNITS ... STUDENT RESOURCES Some personal notes about this web page: It is designed as a resource for teachers K-12 who wish to find quality ready-made units and lessons for all subjects, or who wish to develop their own units. This page emphasizes engaged learning models such as WebQuests, Research Modules and Project-Based Learning, but links include other forms of lessons and tutorials. Included also are sites to help you build your own units as well as some examples of sources to help students do research. Some of these units depend on the ability of students to do interactive work with others using technology. However, even if you have one or no computer in your classroom, most of the units linked at this site can be of much help. They are great learning experiences not only because of technology, but because they also involve students in activities that challenge them to solve problems by doing quality research, analyzing information, synthesizing possibilities, making judgments and then creating interesting products in order to communicate their results. Technology can be used as tools in making these exciting learning experiences even deeper, richer and more motivating.
Black History Links Slavery is from the black history Hotlist from Tom March (http//ozline.com) andPAC Bell Major Slave Revolts and Escapes from the black history Museum. http://www.coollessons.org/slaveryhistory.htm
Extractions: Black History Links This page was written as a time saver for history teachers who need information for your students on slavery in pre-civil war America as well as Reconstruction, Jim Crow Laws, the Civil Rights Movement and issues of the present period. If you find a site you think should be included, please let me know. Pre-Civil War Slavery Post Civil War Links Pre-Civil War Slavery Africans in America from WGBH - PBS Online Spartacus Encyclopedia Slavery Links includes slave accounts, life, events, issues and more. World Book Encyclopedia Presents: The African American Journey (Click on the African American Journey located under African American History) The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship is from the Library of Congress. Look at the information in Sections I, II and III. African American Perspectives consists of pamphlets from the American Memories collection from the Library of Congress. Slavery is from the Black History Hotlist from Tom March ( http://ozline.com ) and PAC Bell. Exploring Amistad Amistad Revolt by slaves on a ship off the coast of Cuba that "set off an intense legal, political, and popular debate over the slave trade, slavery, race, Africa, and ultimately America itself." This site is from the Mystic Seaport Museum.
Personal And Social Identity History Exercise I read quite a few students responses to this activity and there is truly The only time we learned about our history/ancestry was black history Month. http://students.ed.uiuc.edu/lharris2/MyEPort/DIVERSITY PART TWO.htm
Extractions: Home Coursework Philosophy Page Teaching Standards Technology Standards Part Two: Diversity I read quite a few students responses to this activity and there is truly a norm. Many of the individuals on this course are white, middle upper-middle class females. Many of them stated they lived somewhat sheltered lives growing up. Not having too much interaction with other people unlike them rather it was people of color, poor to working class, and/or from other religious denominations. It saddens me that their parents were not promoters of diversity even if they claim they are not racist or prejudice. If we as future teachers continue on this trend, then our kids will continue to suffer greatly. Schools I attended and day camps/after-school programs did not particularly promote oppressive practices forthright. The grammar school I attended did not realize that they did not promote multiculturalism to youth who were Black, yet lived in an area surrounded by Non-Black humans. I think back and remember that there were just a few students who attended my school who were not Black. They were usually placed in classes with other students that were considered Slow or EMH. I do not remember what EMH stood for, but as cruel youth, we heard and stated it stood for Empty Moon Heads. I truly think a teacher began that label. Well, I guess my school promoted and supported oppressive practices after all. The only time we learned about our history/ancestry was Black History Month. And trust me, after February 28
The History Of Jim Crow and teaching ideas on one of the most shameful periods in American history, This overview essay covers the beginnings of the black press in America, http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/history/history.htm
Extractions: Historical marker posted in the 1920s The history of Jim Crow encompassed every part of American life, from politics to education to sports. This section is a good place to begin to access historical background, source material, and lesson plans that utilize the materials in the Geography, Literature, and Teacher Resources sections. We suggest that you begin your exploration of Jim Crow history by reading the themed essay, "From Terror to Triumph", below, in order to get a holistic look at Jim Crow from many angles. If you'd like to create an essay or lesson plan on Jim Crow history, please Join Us ! All teachers are paid for the work they contribute. The Journal of American History gave Jimcrowhistory.org a rave review! Read it here. This historical overview is actually a group of five themed essays focusing on creating, surviving, resisting, escaping, and transcending Jim Crow oppression and discrimination. These themes divide the history of the Jim Crow era, and offer teachers an organizational framework for understanding and teaching the subject. Each of these themes is explored further in the In Depth link. These essays, and others in the Teacher Resources section, provide a wealth of information about the changes and continuity in the tortured history of African Americans as they experienced segregation and discrimination from the Reconstruction Era to the 1950s.
Teaching About Africa - Curriculum - Lesson Plans For K-12 See also historyTeaching history K12 Features Today in black history with historic events. Search by keyword; a search on Mandela retrieves many http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/africaneducation/teaching-africa-K
Extractions: Eight episodes cover the Savanna and a woman moving from the city to rural life (Serengeti, Tanzania), the Sahara (a 9 year old boy from Niger crosses the desert on camel to collect and sell salt, etc. Each episode has a slide shows, video clips (requires sound card, speakers). Photoscopes cover AIDS, urban life, conflict, women. There is an African Challenge quiz and teachers' guide (in Adobe PDF). In the Africa for Kids section , spend a day with kids from Ghana and e-mail them, play the thumb piano / record your tune, (requires Flash, sound card), listen to a Swahili tale or read it yourself, make a Dogon mask. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/africa/ Guide to children's literature on Africa . Reviews are written by univ. faculty, librarians, and teachers many of whom are in African studies or have lived in Africa. Use the Search to locate, for ex., Swahili culture. Has an
Extractions: Summer 2001 F_menu(new Array('NavigationBar21', '../html/cj_editors.html','../assets/images/autogen/CJ_editors_Ns1_1.gif','../assets/images/autogen/CJ_editors_NRs1_1.gif')); F_menu(new Array('NavigationBar22', '../html/cj_archives.html','../assets/images/autogen/CJ_print_Ns1.gif','../assets/images/autogen/CJ_print_NRs1.gif','../html/new_and_newsworthy_archive.html','../assets/images/autogen/CJ_online_Ns1.gif','../assets/images/autogen/CJ_online_NRs1.gif')); Toward a Usable Black History John H. McWhorter EMAIL RESPOND PRINT Y ou brought me here in CHAINS! You brought me here in CHAINS!" James Baldwin exclaimed to a white interviewer in the late 1960s, summing up the sense of our history that most blacks have. Yes, we pay lip service to our having "survived" in this country, but the image most resonant to us is being brought here packed in ships, treated like animals for 250 years, and pushed to the margins of society for the next 100. Many black thinkers downplay even the "survival," depicting modern black America as a variation on slavery and dismissing the progress we've made since the 1960s by condemning successful blacks as "house niggers." The result: for most of us, "black history" summons images of endless degradation—slavery, the quick demise of Reconstruction, Plessy v.
Teaching American History: Helpful Web Sites Best of history Web Sites Features links to K12 history lesson plans, teaching activities correlated to the National history Standards and National http://www.lane.k12.or.us/CSD/ushistory/links.html
Extractions: images, words and sounds. African American History Month Information about African American History Month, civil rights, Martin Luther King and a great selection of websites under the "links" page. The History Project Excellent sitetake some time to look around. Best of History Web Sites Features links to K-12 history lesson plans, teacher guides, activities, games, quizzes, and more. Lewis and Clark Then and Now: Linking the Trail to America's Students Lesson plan, activities, and webcasts! Oregon At War! World War I and the Oregon Experience Presenter Information Hot Tips from Grant Participants STRAP: Survey, Think, Read, Answer and Paraphrase Elementary A Guide to Web Sites for the Upcoming Presidential Elections , Tim Broadbent (elementary), Grant Participant Colonial Trades and Inventions Linda Lund (elementary), Grant Participant
Solid Rock Church Of God In Christ Teaching Our Children black history by Rev. Talbert W. Swan, II, Th.M. Pastor,Solid Rock Church of God in Christ Indian Orchard, MA http://www.srcogic.com/blackhistory.htm
Extractions: So, how do we teach our children about a past that is sometimes difficult to speak out loud? One way to get young children interested in African and African American history is through fiction. Use that list that your public library only puts out in February to come up with some exciting reading for the youth in your life. Stories like Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry and Sounder can make the past real for teenagers. Black writers have begun writing historically based books for younger children as well, so you need not wait until your child is in middle school to get them started.
Footsteps Magazine - Other Cobblestone Publishing Resources Teaching about African Americans. An integral facet of American history that isoften Civil Rights Movement for Kids A history with 21 activities http://www.footstepsmagazine.com/Resources.html
Extractions: Other Cobblestone Publishing Resources An integral facet of American history that is often overlooked is the contributions of African Americans. Cobblestone Publishing offers a wide variety of primary and secondary resources for the young readers in your classroom or library. Choose from our award-winning selection of magazines in the social sciences and science listed below, and check out our books and teachers' resources. The following resources, as well as all past FOOTSTEPS issues, Special issues of COBBLESTONE, FOOTSTEPS, and DIG magazines, done in cooperation with the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, all focus on a very important chapter in our nation's history - the African American struggle for freedom from slavery. Each magazine offers a different approach to understanding the Underground Railroad - from the abolitionist, African American, and archaeological perspectives. Together, the trio of issues presents a comprehensive look at the harrowing and heroic tales of the Underground Railroad. Each issue also includes a
K-12 African-American Resources Information on Teaching African and African American history. This large sitepoints to resources on black history, Business, Event Calendar, http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/K-12/menu_EduAFAM.html
Black History, Culture, And Literature Bibliography In connection with this theme, it is asserted that black history has been In teaching black children it is important to be aware of the heroes of black http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Bibliography/Black_History.html
Extractions: UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER ED356040 Author: Ferguson,-F.-Michael Title: Parents and Teachers as Collaborators in Building Positive Self Concepts in Young Children. Publication Year: 1992 Notes: 113 p.; Ed.D. Practicum, Nova University. EDRS Price - MF01/PC05 Plus Postage. ED355520 Author: Kline,-Lucinda Title: African-American Children's Literature. Publication Year: 1992 Notes: 27 p. EDRS Price - MF01/PC02 Plus Postage. ED355474 Author: McCabe,-Allyssa Title: All Kinds of Good Stories. Publication Year: 1992 Notes: 63 p.; Based on a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Reading Conference (42nd, San Antonio, TX, December 2-5, 1992). EDRS Price - MF01/PC03 Plus Postage. ED354468 Author: Lee,-Courtland-C. Title: Empowering Young Black Males. Publication Year: 1992 Notes: 107 p. EDRS Price - MF01/PC05 Plus Postage. ED354293 Author: Ogbu,-John-U.; Wilson,-John, Jr. Title: Mentoring Minority Youth: A Framework. Publication Year: [1990] Notes: 68 p. EDRS Price - MF01/PC03 Plus Postage.
