{"id":231269,"date":"2010-01-26T11:27:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T16:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/?p=5454"},"modified":"2010-01-26T11:27:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T16:27:06","slug":"nea-provides-curriculum-ideas-for-black-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/231269","title":{"rendered":"NEA provides curriculum ideas for Black History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5456\" title=\"Black history month logo color\" src=\"http:\/\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/media\/Black-history-month-logo-color1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"254\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Are you looking for some fresh ideas to introduce to your students for Black History Month?<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nea.org\/home\/37649.htm\">NEA website<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>The America I AM traveling exhibition centers around a question asked by W.E.B. Du Bois in 1903: \u201cWould America have been America without her Negro people?\u201d 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\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nea.org\/tools\/12937.htm\">NEA website<\/a> provides access to even more ways you can incorporate black history into your curriculum, as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}