In this lesson students will learn more about who MLK was, what many of his contributions to society were and why those contributions were important. Students will have spent about four weeks studying the topics listed above. We wanted them to find out if the civil rights movement, court cases, and congressional actions have caused Blacks to be accepted in the mainstream of American life. In this lesson students do research in order to compose an introduction to a TV documentary dramatizing the deeds of some African-American military heroes. In this lesson students will use the Internet to learn about some male and female African-American scientists and their contributions to society.
Students also become more familiar with science sources in the library.
To commemorate African American History Month, Teaching with Historic Places posted on the web the following four complete lesson plans that consider important aspects of Black history. When Rice Was King Investigate early rice plantations in Georgetown, South Carolina, to learn how rice cultivation transformed the native environment and promoted the South's dependence on a plantation economy. In observance of Black History Month, students will research the lives of African Americans who have made special contributions to American life and society. The students will write a short biography highlighting the person's contribution. 2. understand that enslavement of African Americans existed at the end of the Revolutionary War.