Title:
Famous African-Americans
Grade Level(s): 6th-8th Grade (Black History Month)
Description:
This activity will be conducted in conjunction
with a classroom study of famous African-Americans
and their contributions to American history. Martin
Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Wilma Rudolph, Harriet
Tubman, Booker T. Washington, Jackie Robinson and
Madame C. J. Walker are featured for this activity
and display. (There are many other people who could
be featured and interchanged into this activity.)
The students will have lessons about these famous
people and important facts from their lives. At the
end of the month/unit, the class will be divided into
groups and be presented with boxes containing photographs
and other information about one of these people. The
students will work together to examine the information
and determine who the person is.
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