Grade Range: 6-12
Resource Type(s): Lessons & Activities, Primary Source, Interactives & Media, Reference Materials
Date Posted: 9/12/2009
This website provides online access to this collection of oral histories, photos, documents, and objects related to bracero history. Students can browse the archive, use social bookmarking tools to share resources, add their...
Grade Range: 4-12
Resource Type(s): Lessons & Activities
Duration: 50 Minutes
Date Posted: 7/7/2008
In this classroom activity, students will examine both the integrationist and segregationist arguments from Brown v. Board of Education through role play and begin to explore the impact of the Supreme Court's decision through a primary source phot...
Grade Range: 4-12
Resource Type(s): Lessons & Activities
Duration: 50 Minutes
Date Posted: 7/7/2008
In this classroom activity, students will analyze political cartoons and letters to the editor in order to identify and analyze the range of reactions to the Brown v. Board Supreme Court decision, and the ways in which the Court's mandates were en...
Grade Range: 4-12
Resource Type(s): Lessons & Activities, Worksheets
Duration: 50 Minutes
Date Posted: 7/7/2008
In this classroom activity, students will create posters that will help them identify the role of Howard University as an African American cultural center, the emergence of black lawyers as civil rights leaders, the importance of the NAACP and the...
Grade Range: 7-12
Resource Type(s): Lessons & Activities
Duration: 100 Minutes
Date Posted: 7/7/2008
In this classroom activity, students will research to gather information in order to create a radio broadcast about the five court cases that made up Brown v. Board of Education, and tell the stories of the African Americans from different walks o...
Grade Range: 4-12
Resource Type(s): Lessons & Activities
Date Posted: 7/7/2008
In this classroom activity, students will identify and discuss the condition and aspirations of free African Americans in the years following the Civil War, identify the social factors that led to the rise of Jim Crow segregation and evaluate the ...
Grade Range: 4-12
Resource Type(s): Lessons & Activities
Duration: 50 Minutes
Date Posted: 7/7/2008
In this classroom activity, students will identify the purpose and goals of education in American society and explain why African Americans chose to challenge segregated education in their quest for equality. This lesson is part of the onlin...
Grade Range: 1-6
Resource Type(s): Lessons & Activities
Duration: 10 Minutes
Date Posted: 8/29/2012
Create a cardboard gramophone and think about its connection to recorded sounds. This activity from Spark!Lab includes step-by-step directions, discussion questions, and ideas for extending your learning. Spark!Lab activities encourage young learn...
Grade Range: 1-6
Resource Type(s): Lessons & Activities
Duration: 15 Minutes
Date Posted: 9/4/2012
A speaker is a device found in radios, telephones, and other electronic devices that converts electrical energy into sound energy. You can make your own speaker with some simple supplies. This activity from Spark!Lab includes step-by-step directio...
Grade Range: K-12
Resource Type(s): Lessons & Activities, Interactives & Media
Date Posted: 6/10/2008
In this interactive activity, students will attempt to build a sod house by making choices regarding the construction of their house. Too many wrong answers and the house will collapse! This engaging and lighthearted activity will help students un...