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Brown v. Board of Education Electronic Field Trips

Brown v. Board of Education Electronic Field Trips

Grade Range: 6-12
Resource Type(s): Interactives & Media
Duration: 50 minutes
Date Posted: 7/7/2008

In these electronic field trips produced by the National Museum of American History, viewers are given a 20 minute tour by the curators of the exhibition Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education, followed by a 30 minute videotaped question and answer session about the Brown v. Board of Education case and its legacy.

National Standards

United States History Standards (Grades 5-12)

Era 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

3: How various reconstruction plans succeeded or failed

Era 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)

2: Massive immigration after 1870 and how new social patterns, conflicts, and ideas of national unity developed amid growing cultural diversity

Era 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)

2: The changing role of the United States in world affairs through World War I

3: How the United States changed from the end of World War I to the eve of the Great Depression

Era 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)

4: The struggle for racial and gender equality and the extension of civil liberties

Era 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

2: Economic, social, and cultural developments in contemporary United States

World History Standards (Grades 5-12)

Era 7: An Age of Revolutions, 1750-1914

6: Major global trends from 1750-1914

Era 8: A Half-Century of Crisis and Achievement, 1900-1945

1: Reform, revolution, and social change in the world economy of the early century

Era 9: The 20th Century Since 1945: Promises and Paradoxes

2: The search for community, stability, and peace in an interdependent world

3: Major global trends since World War II

Historical Thinking Standards (Grades 5-12)

Historical Thinking Standard 3: Historical Analysis and Interpretation

3C: Analyze cause-and-effect relationships.

3D: Draw comparisons across eras and regions in order to define enduring issues.

Historical Thinking Standard 5: Historical Issues-Analysis and Decision-Making

5F: Evaluate the implementation of a decision.

Instructional Strategies

Multimedia instruction

Museum education

Verizon Foundation

Support for Smithsonian's History Explorer is provided by the Verizon Foundation