Below, find ideas for bulletin board projects to celebrate Black History Month. Although the projects are described as group projects for a class, they can be created individually as well. Harlem Renaissance Board Assign each student, or group of students, a major figure from the Harlem Renaissan...
Teaching about Black History for the first time this February, or simply looking for fresh ideas to bring this topic to life in the classroom? Explore some tips from our teachers, including a look at the theme for the 98th celebration of Black History in the US and some important historica...
February 1 marks the beginning of Black History Month in the United States. Learn more about this important time, including ways to celebrate and how to explain Black History Month to kids. You can even get a free collection of Black History Month for Kids Google Slides to share with your ...
As teachers, it’s important to use diverse and engaging resources to help students understand the complexities of Black history in a respectful and meaningful way. I have compiled ideas and Black History Month activities for teaching about Black History Month so that everyone can learn together in...
Students use their illustrations to create a book or a bulletin board that retells the folk tale. The teacher might create a simple comprehension quiz to confirm that students understood the sequence of events in the tale. Lesson Plan Source ...
In this lesson, students put the lives of historic Black figures into poetic form; they pen rap or hip-hop lyrics such as the ones that commemorate 19th-century inventor Granville T. Woods in the Granville T. Woods Rap Song at thePreschool Black History Activity Themesite. ...
In 1937, Dr. Carter G. Woodson, at the urging of Mary McLeod Bethune, founded The Black History Bulletin (née The Negro History Bulletin) aimed at providing teachers, students, and the general reader with a foundation in Black history. Since then, the BHB has become one of the academic ...
The mode of presentation can vary from traditional chalkboards and whiteboards to bulletin boards to PowerPoint and even to new technologies like the interactive whiteboard (also referred to as the Smart board). Visual aids can improve learning up to 400% (Stein 2009). This means teachers must...
Yancey) of the Masonic Knights of the Golden Circle- collaborators with Masonic British Royal Family Intelligence Services to maintain an American Slave State (A Secret Society History of the Civil War, Mark A. Lause, Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Champaign, IL (2011)). ...
U.S. History Grades 3-5 6-8 9-12 Brief Description Students learn about African American history in their city or town using library sources, online sources, and oral narratives. Objectives Students define the wordresearcher; use library sources, online sources, and oral narratives to learn abo...