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Showing 2,246 results for CORE- CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY ...
Fort Raleigh National Historic Site
Freedom Versus Equality
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
After the Civil War battle on Roanoke Island African Americans find a haven from slavery. Through education and freedom they get their first tastes of independence.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Equal Exchange Lesson Plan
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This lesson on equal exchange identifies specific trade goods and their approximate worth in dollars during the 1840s fur trade era. Students will consider various options available to make equal trades based on those values and represent them using equivalent algebraic expressions.
Women's Rights National Historical Park
Pathways to Equality: Traveling History Classroom
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This Traveling History Classroom contains a hands-on study of the antislavery movement and Quakers, and how they influenced the First Women's Rights Convention. It includes a study guide that used documents, images, diary and letter excerpts, and reproduction items and clothing to explore how Quakers and antislavery reformers brought about the Seneca Falls Convention.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will identify locations on a street map using accompanying text. They will search a database to find historical photos of the corresponding locations. Using what they have discovered, they will analyze the connection between location and methods of working for change. Taking it further, the students will identify an issue they would like to advocate for and describe a corresponding location to work for that change.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this lesson, students will learn about the campaign for the Equal Rights Amendment by the National Woman's Party beginning in 1923. They will evaluate a political cartoon to identify different perspectives on the ERA. Students will then respond to the argument presented in the cartoon. Finally, they will predict the possible effect of the ERA on society today.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site
“Now is the Time!”: Three Men, Three Speeches, and the Promise of Equality
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This lesson plan gives students the opportunity to engage with the context of the national civil rights conversation as it progressed in the spring of 1963. Students will examine three speeches by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and Vice President Lyndon Johnson. Students will engage in a conversation about the similarities and differences between these speeches and discuss their themes, then connect those themes to current conversations regarding civil rights.
Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve
From Core to Crust
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students act out different parts of the Earth and then build models of the Earth showing its layers.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students are introduced to the study of geology. They will learn about what is hidden beneath the surface of the Earth and how the geology of the Earth gives shape to the landscape. They will learn about the theory of plate tectonics and how the movement of these plates affects the world around us.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students examine a primary source document from the National Woman's Party lobbying records and identify differing perspectives on a political issue, the Equal Rights Amendment. They plan their own lobbying approach based on what they learned. Students then identify an issue and design their own campaign for change.
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
Lesson 3 - PHOTO ANALYSIS
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This lesson introduces students to the Civil Rights Movement’s direct-actions against segregation. In the 1960s, the New Orleans chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality participated in the Freedom Rides throughout the South. Students will examine a collection of photographs that includes four mug shots of C.O.R.E. activists and a Mississippi cotton field.
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
Discover Colonel Young's Protest Ride for Equality and Country: A Lightning Lesson from Teaching with Historic Places, featuring the historic Colonel Charles Young House
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
During WWI, African American Colonel Charles Young rode horseback for two weeks to protest discrimination in the U.S. Army.
Ulysses S Grant National Historic Site
Exploring the History of Slavery in St. Louis
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This Distance Learning Program aims to provide an introduction to the history of slavery in St. Louis. Geared for students in grades 3 through 5, the program examines what life was like for enslaved Missourians and highlights the stories of six enslaved African Americans from St. Louis who went on to become nationally famous for their efforts to end slavery and promote racial equality in the United States.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn about the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down "separate but equal".
Niobrara National Scenic River
Cows in the Campground - Pre-Visit Writing Activity
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will read about the community of the Niobrara Valley prior to their field trip to develop an understanding of the significance of development and its co-existence with preservation of a natural resource. Students will demonstrate their understanding of the interrelationships contained in the river system by writing a descriptive essay based on an essay prompt of their choice.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Intercultural Kinship
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Lewis Garrard's ten-month journey on the Santa Fe Trail put him in contact with a variety of southwestern cultures. This lesson offers a chance to reflect on how family unions across cultures both helped and hindered successful operation of the Bent, St. Vrain, & Co. during the 1840s.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Library of Congress collection, soldier rendition of Fort Donelson, watercolor
Andersonville National Historic Site
Trial of Henry Wirz
- Type: Primary Sources
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Published at the request of Congress, this government document provides a transcript of the trial of Captain Wirz.
Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park
Web Quest Curriculum Unit
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
A cooperative activity where students identify each of the five cases included in the Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court decision, explore how the NAACP was involved, and how explore the significance of the "separate but equal" clause.
Springfield Armory National Historic Site
The Women of World War I and II: Traveling Education Trunks
- Type: Traveling Trunk ... Primary Sources ... Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The Women of World War I and II investigates the role of women during both World Wars. This traveling trunk explores the reasons why women embraced the predominantly male jobs, the work they did, and their lasting legacy in the role of women’s fight for equality.
Kings Mountain National Military Park
The Battle of Kings Mountain
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The Battle of Kings Mountain (October 7, 1780) was one of the most dramatic and hotly contested battles of the Revolutionary War. On an isolated ridge top in the Carolina backcountry, nearly 1000 American Patriots surrounded and overwhelmed an approximately equal number of American Loyalists.