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Spirituals

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review factors that contributed to the development of the spiritual, which reflects the influence of African religious and Christian traditions, and slavery. Students collect spirituals/songs of their heritage from family...
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Have Minorities Gained Acceptance

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students cite evidence gathered from magazines about how much Blacks are accepted into the mainstream of American life. They support their conclusions by writing an answer to an essay question.
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Brother Outsider

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students view the film "Brother Outsider" and read an article by Bayard Rustin as springboards to discuss the concept of civil rights in the United States. They follow a discussion guide.
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Building a Better Me

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discuss importance of making good choices.
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Broadcasting World War II

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders listen to several broadcasts from the WWII era. They research, write and perform simulated radio broadcasts concerning topics related to American society in World War II.
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It's Time to Put Our Money Where Our Mouths Are

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders choose a person who should be honored on our currency. They write a letter outlining the reasons for their choice.
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Songs of Unrest - Lesson 4

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners identify popular songs from 1968 and make connections with the year's current events. They pretend that they are producing a new CD. The CD includes four songs that comment on today's social issues. They write the liner notes.
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African American Historian

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Learners research a famous African American Historian and create a PowerPoint presentation, with at least 10 slides, describing why the person deserves recognition.
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Examining the African American Role in New Haven History: Pride in the Past? Hope for the Future

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine the role of African-Americans in New Haven, Connecticut. Using two maps, they compare and contrast the differences in the town from the past to today. In groups, they use the internet to research the contributions...
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Ralph McGill: the "Conscience of the South"

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars view a film, "Dawn's Early Light: Ralph McGill and the Segregated South." As groups of students observe the movie, they list key dates, significant persons interviewed, and cultural characteristics. Upon completion of the...
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Making More Places at the Table: The American Civil Rights Movement of the 50's and 60's

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders examine the biography of Henry B. Gonzalez. They examine primary source documents from Congressman Gonzalez's personal papers related to his contributions to the Civil Rights Movement.
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Amnesty International

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduced to the phrase 'human rights. They discuss how they would feel if they were an underage soldier. Students are divided into small groups, they work together to answer questions such as: How would you define...
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Human Rights and Discrimination

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders create a KWL chart on discrimination and human rights. While reading different stories, they take notes on each character in the books. To end the lesson, they discuss the forms of discrimination today and how African...
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The Importance of Freedom

For Teachers 1st
The students will become familiar with the Underground Railroad. They will gain an understanding of slaves and what it means to have little or no freedom and compare that with the rights that all Americans have now.
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The Elderly Poor: Human Rights

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students examine facts about the elderly population of the United States that lives in poverty through the context of universal human rights. They participate in class discussion, review census records, read case studies, interview...
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Using West African Gold Weights and African Masks as a Way of Communication

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders discuss how communication, or lack thereof, can have either a favorable or detrimental effect on a community. They study and interpret proverbs as a means of teaching a lesson. Finally they discuss symbolism and design a...
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Parabolas

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students review the definition of a parabola. They trace a parabola by locating points the same distance from a point as they are to a line. Students develop an equation for a parabola with its vertex at the origin. Students solve...
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The Kennedy Administration and the Civil Rights Movement

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students evaluate the Kennedy Administration's involvement in the civil rights movement. In this Civil rights instructional activity, students read and take notes from speeches connected to the historic March on Washington from the...
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Heroes and Heroines

For Students 4th - 5th
In this heroes and heroines worksheet, students make a list of some quiet heroes from this century. Students choose one hero and write a few paragraphs and draw a scene from the hero's life. The page refers to a previous lesson that is...
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Pennsylvania Boxing: Living the American Dream

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners reflect on fictional and real boxers from Pennsylvania.  In this history instructional activity, high schoolers read, reflect and discuss the historical period following World War II and observe the boxers that were famous from...
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The Segregated Pencil Sharpeners

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore racism through pencil sharpeners.  In this civil rights lesson, students utilize a pencil sharpener with one of two colored pencils and explain how some people were not allowed to use certain items because of the color...
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Satyagraha: The Soul Force of Nonvilence

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils discuss what satyagraha is understanding that it is the driving force which enables social reform. In this social science lesson, students try to internalize the principles of nonviolence on an individual level and then a global...
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ESL: Montgomery Bus Boycott

For Students 6th - 7th
In this ESL Montgomery Bus Boycott worksheet, students fill in blanks to complete a short passage about the boycott, clicking on buttons to check answers.
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History Trivia For Kids

For Students 4th - 7th
There are 40 history trivia questions and answers.  Students have to cut out the questions and the answers and try to match the correct answer to the question.  The trivia questions are all related to history but from many different...

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