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- 6th - 8th
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Students examine an aspect of either railroad or marine transportation (for example: routes, Pullman porters' work routines, or African-American merchant sailors) and evaluate their impact on migration in the United States. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students research on the Internet for information. They produce a one page flier for their inventor and gather information from two different sites on the Internet to locate information on their particular inventor. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students examine the role of inventors in the United States. They research websites to research the inventors themselves. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students create a database with the inventions of African-Americans. They analyze and sort the data in an appropriate fashion. They use the internet to gather their information for the database. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 6th
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Students examine the way various inventions have changed their lives. As a class, they create a timeline of the most important inventions during their lifetime and another timeline of how old they were when it was invented. Individually, they use the internet to research one inventor and write their own biography of him or her. To end the lesson, they discuss the positives and negatives of new inventions. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students are invited to engage in critical discussion of complex issues of race, class, and gender. They acquire factual information from the internet and picture books. Students ponder to think about the injustice of social barriers that separate human beings from one another. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 8th
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Students create "sole people" using tempera paint, drawing paper, and shoe prints in this multi-level Art lesson. The lesson can be combined with a brief history of the African-American inventor Jan Earnst Matzeliger who created the "shoe lasting machine". Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students research the careers of African-American scientists and inventors. They uses both Internet and print resourses for their research. They design a slideshow presentation on five of these significant individuals. Full Review »
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- 9th - 10th
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Students research the Internet for information about African-American inventors and their inventions. After collecting their data, students must build and manage information in a database that catalogs the inventions of African-Americans. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students read about several African-American authors for young readers who are listed on the "This Goodly Land" Web site. They complete a graphic organizer for each author and compare and contrast the authors. They discuss and tell how the author's own life experiences may have played a role in the writing of the book. Full Review »
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