Black History Month All Year Long

HOW DOES THIS WORK? HOW DO I PARTICIPATE? What will I need . . . 

• One computer is all you need, but student access is great.
• An e-mail account
• Basic computer skills, including the ability to use e-mail
• Web Browser (Netscape, Explorer, Firefox, Google)

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DREAMS COME TRUE IN AMERICA

CURRICULA CLASSROOM RESOURCES

USE THE ARTS "FIND EXAMPLES of CLASSROOM RESOURCES USING MUSIC, STORYTELLING, FOLKSTALES, and FILM IN THE CURRICULUM

LESSON PLANNING - Topics interconnect a non linear need to know when you want to know it application for the individual learner.

• INFORMATION - 50 Pages you can print out.
• SAVES TIME - the research has been done for you.
• LINKS - the best sites for primary sources and supporting information.
• ORIGINAL CONTENT - not easily found in school libraries, ordinary school textbooks or the WWW.
• UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
• ABOUT AMISTAD
• CENSUS 1999
• PLANTATIONS
• ONLINE CLASS PROJECT
• ONLINE FREE TOOLS
  Great free online tools teachers can use for the classroom. Make rubrics, download free collaboration software, quizzes, puzzles, multiple choice and more. . .
• BOOKS

LEARN HISTORY THROUGH THE ARTS

"FIND EXAMPLES USING MUSIC, STORYTELLING, FOLKSTALES, and FILM IN THE CURRICULUM

Make history relevant - make it personal - VARK, make it interesting for children using songs with your state standards.

STUDENTS LOVE MUSIC - Your students can make history and become the primary source. Discuss daily life, including traditions in art, music, and literature, of early national America - Classroom teachers do not need to sing or play music all you need is this website to find the songs and primary sources. The fine arts will grab the imagination and hook your students. Take your time here, so that you don't miss any of the treasures to share. . .

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FOLKTALES and STORY TELLING

Stories of the people, often passed from elders to the next generation. Help your students learn through the oral tradition. Download, read, and hear each story narrated in both American Virgin Island Creole and Standard English, plus find out how these stories survived in tact from the original storyteller.
De Josselin de Jong does not say who told him this story. However, we do know that all of the people who told him stories lived on St. Thomas and St. John and that they spoke both Dutch Creole and Virgin Islands English.

A Brother Anansi and Brother Tecoma Stories spoken in Standard English and Negerhollands English.

UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

Find the UnderGround Railroad! Background information, and ready-made curriculum . . . these links provide the resources to really delve into this topic!
Butler Pike and Germantown Ave. Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462

"When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything." -- Harriet Tubman.

LESSON PLANNING

There's something for everyone here. . . from broad, overview sites to uniquely focused sites, here is the content for developing engaging lessons for your students.

FACT . . . DO YOU KNOW HOW BLACK HISTORY MONTH GOT STARTED?

In 1920, Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson (1875-1950) founded Associated Publishers, the for-profit arm of ASALH Inc., which was founded in 1915. The Associated Publishers is responsible for the publication and circulation of ASALH's renowned Afro-American History Month Kits. In February 1926, he announced the institution of Negro History Week, which coincided with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. In 1976, the observance was expanded to "National Afro-American History Month", in honor of the nation's bicentennial. Beginning in 1975, U.S. Presidents have paid tribute to the mission of the association and urged all Americans to celebrate Afro-American History Month, which we now make available to you all year long.

AMISTAD

These links cover the issues and inequities of slavery. . . from the specifics of the Amistad revolt to the slavery that exists in today's world. These resources deserve a thoughtful look. In January 1839, a group of Mende Tribe Africans, were captured by Spanish traders and shipped to Cuba, where the Africans were bought by two plantation owners who intended to take them to their own plantations on another part of the island on the ship La Amistad. During that journey, the Mende revolted against their captors and tried to force the Spanish to sail them back to Africa. The riveting trial of the Amistad Africans, including their legal defense by former President of the United States, John Quincy Adams, began in Connecticut and led to the U.S. Supreme Court.

African Slave Owners
Many societies in Africa with kings and hierarchical forms of government traditionally kept slaves. But these were mostly used for domestic purposes. They were an indication of power and wealth and not used for commercial gain. However, with the appearance of Europeans desperate to buy slaves for use in the Americas, the character of African slave ownership changed.

TEACHING IN CONTEXT

ONLINE CLASS PROJECT: Grades 4 - 12

Help children develop the use of technology as a tool for learning and for use in all sorts of career related ways in the real world, by teaching "skills" with a learner-centered constructivist approach.
Skills are important, and you ARE helping your students develop them if you are providing learner-centered/constructivist events, and hands-on (experiential), facilitated discovery. Anyway you approach it, the learner almost always develops both a knowledge base of skills and/or concepts along with the ability to make critical and/or creative decisions about the uses of those skills/concepts when the learning is student-centered and constructivist based.
Teachers can facilitate learning environments and learning events that lead to the eventual use of higher order thinking and the very very important assimilation and ability to transfer those skills out of the initial learning environment, but knowledge must precede application which precedes all important higher level thinking skills.

BLACK SLAVERY IS NOT HISTORY

TEACHING IN CONTEXT BLACK SLAVERY IS NOT HISTORY Online Collaborative Project that can be expanded past the school day.A real life thematic classroom project using multiple intelligences empowering students who wish to become modern day abolutionists and activists. Have children participate in an experience they will never forget. This is a human rights issue, not political or religious. Slavery is a direct violation against the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. This unit combines history, current events, education and activism. Service Project: Become an abolitionist, an activist, support the antislavery movement.Turn children into life long learners, give them skills that they will remember for a lifetime.

• Objectives:
  Become an abolitionist. Find out about the outrageous active slave trade in the year 2001.
  
• Identify:
  Governments involved and their rulers
  
• Research:
  The plight of thousands of blacks who currently suffer the world's worst human rights violation, who are being captured and sold right now. What is the price of human life and freedom? Whole villages are captured, women are being raped, and men are mutilated and killed. Men, women and children are being marched to the slave markets.
  
• Synthesize Information:
  Through personal expression, self-evaluation, collaborative group projects and service projects

CENSUS

Tons of information straight from the U.S. Census Bureau's Public Information Office

PLANTATION

This site offers a fascinating opportunity to merge archaeological and historical thinking through the findings at this plantation. This one is guaranteed to provide food for thought!

HIGHER EDUCATION

If you feel you need to broaden your own understanding of American history and current issues before broaching them with your students, be sure to spend some time here.

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