Are you looking for some fresh ideas to introduce to your students for Black History Month?
The National Education Association, Tavis Smiley and the America I AM: The African American Imprint exhibition are teaming up to offer educators historically relevant and culturally diverse curriculum to be used throughout February.
Visit the NEA website to find lesson plans, activity sheets and other learning materials that are tailored for grade levels 5 to 12. The lessons can be used as a standalone history unit or can be linked with social studies, economics, math, art and literature lessons.
The America I AM traveling exhibition centers around a question asked by W.E.B. Du Bois in 1903: “Would America have been America without her Negro people?” Visitors to the exhibit see a wide-ranging collection of maps, documents, prints and other historical items that illustrate ways African-Americans have impacted America’s history.
The NEA website provides access to even more ways you can incorporate black history into your curriculum, as well.