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Maryland Public Schools: Maggie L. Walker History Lesson Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
With this lesson plan, students will learn about the life of African American teacher and entrepreneur Maggie L. Walker, the woman to own a bank in the United States. This document includes teacher resources, student resources and...
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Lin and Don Donn

Lin and Don Donn: Africa Lesson Plans

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A large collection of lesson plan links, including links to video clips, stories and folk tales, games, PowerPoints, and clip art.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Collection of Lesson Plans

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This collection presents in-depth lesson plans on American history from the 18th century to the present. Lessons include African American history, women's history, Native American history and many other topics.
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National Education Association: Black History Month Lessons & Resources

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Wide selection of lesson plans, activities, quizzes, resources, worksheets, and videos covering a variety of subjects and grade levels help to explain African-American culture and history.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Dream in Color, African American Heritage

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover the African American Culture and share the information through these lessons with your students. Choose from several different lesson plans and grade levels to help students learn about the African American Culture.
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Center For Civic Education

Center for Civic Education: Black History Month

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A collection of six lessons for Grades 5 and up for Black History Month. The lesson plans explore the use of nonviolence in history, particularly with respect to the civil rights movement and African American history.
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Lin and Don Donn

Lin and Don Donn: u.s. History Lessons: Holidays: Kwanzaa

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Site provides brief background information about Kwanzaa but is primarily a repository of lesson plan ideas, games and clip art.
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Alabama Department of Archives and History

Al Dept of Archives & History: African Americans: Reconstruction Lesson [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
With this lesson plan, students learn about the lives of African Americans during Reconstruction. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).
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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Teacher Tools: African Arts and Music Lesson Plans

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Explore the world of African Art and Music when you check out this lesson plan. This site features learning objectives, activities and more.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Education: Lesson Plan: Black Wings: American Pioneer Aviators

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
With this resource, teachers can select the most appropriate academic level and download a lesson plan that contains images, Word documents and PDF resources for teaching about the history of black Americans in aviation. Excellent...
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Massachusetts Studies Project: African Americans in Massachusetts

For Students 9th - 10th
The full title of this page is "African Americans in Massachusetts: Case Studies of Desegregation in 19th Century Nantucket and Boston." It features a timeline that covers the mid-19th century cases in Nantucket and Boston concerning the...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of African Art: Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the crafts that the African American culture exported from native African lands, basketry and cultivation of rice. With the lessons provided in the downloadable document, students will weave together history, geography, social...
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Library of Congress

Loc: American Memory: African American Odyssey

For Students 9th - 10th
The Library of Congress' Digital Library presents an outstanding lesson that links to collections about the quest for full citizenship, Frederick Douglass papers, slave narratives, and more.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: African American History Resources

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
February is African American History Month and a great time to investigate the contributions that African Americans have made to the history and cultural development of the United States. Resources include general information, lesson...
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History of African Americans of Delaware and Maryland's Eastern Shore

For Students 9th - 10th
A site covering the story of African Americans living in Delaware and on the Eastern shore of Maryland. Just click on one of the stories to learn about their triumphs and struggles. Includes a set of lesson plans.
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Stanford University

Stanford University: Lesson Plan on Martin Luther King, Jr. & Malcolm X

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A comprehensive four part lesson plan exploring how the ideas of the two great African American leaders were similar and different both in their ideologies and their visions.
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Columbia University

Maap | Mapping the African American Past

For Students 9th - 10th
MAAP lessons, developed at Teachers College, Columbia University, help teachers at all levels engage in content through stories about building community, resisting slavery, and contributing to New York City's development. Lessons are...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Black History Teaching Resources

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore an exciting collection of teaching resources, activities, and lesson plans honoring Black History Month.
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Teachnology

Teachnology: Black History Month Teaching Theme

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Enhance teaching during Black History Month with Teachnology's broad assortment of lesson plans, activities, songs and much more.
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Stanford University

Stanford History Education Group: Great Migration

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Using primary sources, students will form their own conclusions as to why African-Americans moved north in large numbers during the early 1900's. Included in this lesson plan is a PowerPoint to use for...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Reconstruction Sac

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this structured academic controversy, students examine constitutional amendments, a Black Code, a personal account...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Sharecropping

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry lesson allows students to critically evaluate their classroom textbook's account...
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 2: Langston Hughes and the Blues

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore relationship between music and poetry in this African-American history lesson on Langston Hughes, the Harlem Renaissance, and other artists such as Bessie Smith, John Hammond, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones.
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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: Enslaved African Americans and Expressions of Freedom

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Young scholars will examine African American slave spirituals, a painting, and a personal narrative to analyze the underlying messages of these materials.

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