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Appomattox Court House National Historical Park
Perspectives After the Surrender at Appomattox CH
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This program will allow students to think about the different perspectives of those who lived through the Civil War, and how various viewpoints interpreted the events surrounding the Surrender Meeting at Appomattox. This program consists of several assignments designed to help students explore these differences through the stories of three people present at Appomattox Court House in 1865.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Detroit, Michigan. Riot at the Sojourner Truth homes, a new U.S. federal housing project, caused by white neighbors' attempt to prevent Black tenants from moving in. American flag next to a sign that reads: "We want white tenants in our white community," directly opposite the housing project. Courtesy of Library of Congress.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Young civil rights demonstrators speaking at a press conference at the Gaston Motel during the Children's Crusade in Birmingham, Alabama. Andrew Young (dressed in overalls) is standing behind them. Photo taken 5/8/1963. Copyright, Alabama Department of Archives and History. Donated by the Alabama Media Group, http://www.alabamamediagroup.com
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Zora Neale Hurston, U.S. Library of Congress, Reproduction number LC-USZ62-62394 (b&w film copy neg.). Card #2004672085. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004672085/
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
A picture of a statue at Kelly Ingram Park called The Four Spirits. This statue honors the lives of the 4 girls who died in the dynamite blast at 16th Street Baptist Church on September 15, 1963. Photo courtesy of the Alabama Tourism Department, Chris Granger (photographer).
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students hold a sleep-in as a form of protest in Flint, Michigan in 1967.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
1963 Plymouth car advertisement.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Page 2 of Langston Hughes' "Great Migration" poem.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
NPS Employee talking to a group of children in Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. She wears the 1962 women's uniform with badge and pill box hat. She is not wearing the uniform coat. NPS History Collection photo by M. Woodbridge Williams.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) paratroopers jump from a U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft over Bangladesh during exercise Cope South 14 Nov. 10, 2013. Cope South is an annual bilateral aerial exercise designed to increase the combat readiness and interoperability of the U.S. Air Force and the BAF. Public domain photograph from defenseimagery.mil.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Iva G. and Evans B. Davis in front of their home in Flint, Michigan. Photograph. n.d. Davis Family Archives.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
A sign from the Lewis Mountain Campground, a segregated area for African Americans, demonstrates the role of Jim Crow laws on National Parks such as Shenandoah.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
1958 logo for Billboard Hot 100, Bilboard, wikimedia commons.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Wheat Honeys advertisement. The Left side features a bumble bee holding a gun in each hand and wearing a cowboy hat. The right side features a rocket mid-launch.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
A black and white photograph featuring a woman smiling as she looks at a video call with a baby held up to the screen on the other end. The photograph was taken in 1964, this is an example of early video call technology.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This is a GM Delco Transistorized "Hybrid" (vacuum tubes and transistors) radio model 3725156, which was first offered as an option on the 1956 Chevrolet Corvette car models. Photo by Historianbuff, Wikimedia.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students role-play a guided imagery story of the rock cycle
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.
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
Lesson 6 - THE IMPORTANCE OF INTERGENERATIONAL DIALOGUE
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
When you take the time to sit down and learn from someone who is of a different age with different experiences, the teaching and the learning experiences go both ways. For this lesson, students will read Ray Lambert’s chapter where he discusses growing up before and after segregation with a young musician named Xavier Michel.
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
Lesson 7 - BECOMING A CULTURAL INVESTOR
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
In this unit, students will move beyond the days of the classic Civil Rights Movement and into contemporary times. Reading Jerome Smith’s chapter in Talk That Music Talk, they will learn how Civil Rights and music were combined together in a youth organization in New Orleans called Tambourine and Fan. Using the concept of a “cultural investment,” students will then create a presentation about their own community.