The RR is a secret network of hiding places and brave people. • The Unstoppable Ruby Bridges - This inspiring historical-fiction play tells the story of how a 6-year-old girl helped lead the way to school integration.Â. Having personally worked at a Baskin-Robbins for almost two years in high school, I can say that Cralle impacted my life for the better! • "Your World" - An inspiring poem from a popular Harlem Renaissance writer Georgia Douglas Johnson. • Let Them Play! - A Storyworks play based on a true story of baseball, racism, and the Little League champs who never got to play. A Perfect Package for Black History Month. What I love about this lesson is that I can pull up videos of her Olympic routines and we can talk about how much she had to overcome to make it to the Olympics. (I guess it’s a sign of how old I am that I feel like 1992 was just a couple years ago.). Inspire your students with these three books, and use these three connected activities to make this December one to remember. After they finish their ice cream, they write their sentence on the back of their trading card. Share with #Storyworks on social media or email us at [email protected]. After a few have tried, we turn our conversation towards what makes scooping with a spoon so difficult. Haven't signed into your Scholastic account before? The following lessons can be used in one focused week or over the course of the month. In 1960, four college kids in Greensboro, North Carolina began the sit-in movement at a local Woolworth's. Here are some other stories of that would make great additions to any lesson—for Black History Month and beyond. Are your students obsessed with Matthew Henson yet? I love pointing out that even at such a young age, Douglas has written several books. I asked where he had heard that and he said, "The Disney Channel," but he wasn’t truly clear about what it meant. The Rosa Parks series will teach students about Rosa Parks' experience, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the Civil Rights Movement. Every kid wants to be an astronaut at some point and if it hasn’t happened before the day I introduce Mae Jemison, then it will during this lesson. They have to manipulate the square piece of cheese into different size triangles. Browse Scholastic printable worksheets, lesson plans, text passages, and activities on American History including Native American History, State History, Civil Rights, Slavery and World Wars. Now, I love that story, but I also love the teachable moment it provided me. Subscribers receive access to the website and print magazine. Please comment about other books and activities that you use for Black History Month. I typically pull up some videos of Jemison so the students can hear and see her. History comes alive—with engaging lesson plans and teaching tools that explore the big eras of history and examine more specific topics. After starting our trading cards by copying a sentence, the class is ready to begin writing their own fact after learning about Mandela. The length and detail of the sentences on the back of the trading card is easily differentiated for all grade levels and learners. You never know when you will be adding one more student to your classroom family. She had to live away from her family for several years to reach her goal. All the students who want to try to come up and scoop their own scoop of ice cream get the opportunity. Teacher-approved stories, resources, and worksheets, courtesy of Junior Scholastic, the middle school Social Studies classroom magazine. Last February, during calendar time, I told my class about how February was Black History Month. It was the perfect way for me to teach that although February is called Black History Month, it’s a time when we all continue to learn about human history that benefits and affects all of us. Show the video "History's Forgotten Heroes," which introduces five great people who have often been overlooked because of racism or sexism, including African Americans Garrett Morgan and Katherine Johnson. I love how it relates to space and also gives my kids practice counting backwards. To begin, I read Mousetronaut by Mark Kelly about a mouse who goes on a space mission. • "Your World" - An inspiring poem from a popular Harlem Renaissance writer Georgia Douglas Johnson.• Let Them Play! We’ve put together a fabulous package for students to learn about Henson and other overlooked African Americans who’ve made great contributions. View not found. Think about what kind of obstacles they may have faced, both personally and professionally. Follow a runaway slave to freedom along the Underground Railroad in 1860. - A Storyworks play based on a true story of baseball, racism, and the Little League champs who never got to play. Resources include world history printable worksheets, text & questions sets, mini-books and plays, timelines, plus individual and collaborative research projects. I start this lesson by reading Gabby Douglas: Going for Gold by Tori Kosara. Use these books and ideas to make it a smooth and successful transition for everyone involved. Our new Text Features slideshow provides a great opportunity to connect the images and sidebar with the text and discuss important ideas. No credit card required! TM ® & © 2020 Scholastic Inc. All Rights Reserved. Use these ten books and three activities to help build confidence in your young learners. There are also lots of videos that you can show your class about what he suffered through and what he accomplished. After they complete their trading card, we revisit the goals that each child set as their New Year’s Resolution. Here are some other stories of that would make great additions to any lesson—for Black History Month and beyond. It’s where you’ll find fresh, creative, practical ways to use the phenomenal resources available to you through this award-winning magazine. I also bring in the book Grace, Gold, and Glory to show my class one of the books that she has written. Scholastic Offers Free Articles For Students, Their Civics Lesson: America is Bad, Hate Cops. 1–2, Students read an interview with Rosa Parks, use an interactive timeline, and publish their response online. As they are scooping, our classroom conversation consists of discussing the differences between the spoon and the ice cream scoop. Before I could go any further, I had a little redhead stand up and point to himself with both thumbs and say, "Black history is MY history!" After we finish this book, I get out a tub of ice cream and have the students come up and try to scoop it using a spoon. I have become a huge fan of Kadir Nelson after finding his book Nelson Mandela. Then, through careful guided questioning, the kids begin talking about the ice cream scoops that they use at home and how they are different than the spoon they tried to use. Download the PDF from here. It’s a short, quick, nonfiction book that covers her backstory and how she became the first African-American female, from any country, to win the all-around gold medal for gymnastics at the 2012 Olympic Summer Games. To celebrate Black History Month, we make trading cards of different important figures of African ancestry who changed the world in many different ways. 3–5, Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins. Each student gets a slice of cheese and two saltine crackers. 'Tis the season for pumpkins! • I Have a Dream - A powerful historical-fiction play based on an important episode from Martin Luther King Jr.’s childhood. They get to eat their rocket while completing the sentence on the back of their trading card. We discuss the word "freedom" and talk about Mandela’s contribution to the people of the world. Join Grammy-Award winning trumpeter and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center Wynton Marsalis on a tour of jazz — see the people, read about the events, and listen to the music. • "Freedom or Death" - Your students will be riveted by the true story of Robert Smalls, a slave who, in 1862, commandeered a Southern ship to free his family—and became a renowned Civil War hero. Start your free trial. I was actually thrilled to see that he created a poster for the Scholastic Read Everyday, Lead a Better Life campaign. Occasionally we need positive reminders why we became teachers.Â, Book Buzz: 3 Inspiration December Books With Activities, Book Buzz: Building Confidence in Young Learners, Book Buzz: Successfully Welcome New Students, Black History Month Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources, PreK–K, You are being redirecting to Scholastic's authentication page... For more support materials, visit our Help Center. I use this downloadable trading card template and the following lessons to broaden my class’ knowledge about black history. I’d love to hear what you do in your classroom. This lesson starts off the fantastic book by Carole Boston Weatherford called Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins. Read "Frozen Dreams" with your students. • Ayanna the Brave - In this play, students will learn how one 7-year-old fought segregation in Oklahoma City. Fiction Teaser: Dusti Bowling's Mystery of the Cactus Arm, New for 2020: Learning Journey Slide Decks and More Remote Teaching Tools, Get Your Students Involved in the My History Project, How to Add Storyworks Activities in Seesaw. Use these activities to create lessons that your students will never forget. After I talk about what a lunch counter is and demonstrate by setting up a line of chairs with certain chairs being off limits to certain groups of people (the students easily relate this to our water fountain activity from the day we learned about Martin Luther King Jr.), the students complete their Greensboro Four trading card. The Scholastic History of Jazz resource site is full of audio clips, history, and research starters on the subject of jazz. But as students will find out in the article, it took years for this African American hero to get the recognition he deserved. Put your lesson together 1-2-3! Assign the "Research Kit," which will lead students on their own learning adventures to find out about African American heroes they might not have heard of before. To introduce this inventor I read Spoon by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, in which the character (and utensil) Spoon dives headfirst into a bowl of ice cream. 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