The Civil Rights Movement Jennifer Anderson Social Studies Technology Project 7th Grade ED

American Heritage

Web sites and Activities Contains an interactive chronology wherein the students will be able to explore the years of Kings life and view historical documents, photos, audio and video Challenges students to select and research the people, places, and events that impact a specific year of the 20th century and then allows them to create their own newspaper.

This site challenges students to investigate the American Dream by using occurrences in the past as guides. This activity will encourage the students to create projects that show their understanding of others dreams and then share their dream for the future. This site will enable students to analyze issues related to reform to answer the question, “How does society respond to change?” by exploring sheet music. This site will encourage students to write creative works that reflect themes of racism, compassion, and tolerance.

People In Societies

Web Sites and Activities This interactive site allows the students to explore many important sites in the civil rights movement in the United States. html This is a site with a photo tour of the civil rights movement that encourages further research by bringing the people and events to life.

This site includes 17 activities for students to do regarding Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the timelines and people of the civil rights movement. This page contains an entire unit of activities on important African Americans who have made special contributions to American life and society. This site is an activity focusing on Jackie Robinson’s contribution to the civil rights movement.

World Interactions

20civil%20rights.htm This site includes a large well intergrated lesson plan detailing activities relating to the people and places involved in the civil rights movement. American_Civil_Rev.pdf This website is a comprehensive unit covering many aspects of the civil rights movement. After this lesson students will understand the steps toward desegragation and the people and places involved.

there/index.html This is an activity on African American population shifts througout history. The students will explore the economic and social reasons for the changes. This lesson encourages the students to understand that many ordinary men and women struggled and fought for their beliefs along with the leaders of the movement. This site enables students to explore the role that Rosa Parks played in the movement, and then publish online how they feel about her situation.

Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities

This activity, though designed for primary grades, could easily be modified for middle school to allow students to experience predjudice first hand. This activity enables young people to address issues that affect them through dialogue with policy makers. It will give them an understanding of how the individuals felt while fighting for their beliefs during the civil rights movement. The students will write a reflection essay after reading “Communications Policy Is a Civil Rights Issue,” paying close attention to the section called Past is Prolouge.

This activity will encourage students to analyze government actions with respect to individual rights and explain the importance of individual rights and responsibilities in a free society. STUDIES/eighth.html#anchor In this activity, the students will discuss the importance of the changes made during the civil rights movement.

Democratic Process

Htm This interactive website will evable students to explore the facts and details surrounding the “Mississippi Burning” trial. This site promotes the political responsibility and active participation of citizens in government. The students will learn about the importance of voting and then use the voting process in the classroom.

This site contains activities about the election and the Presidency. The students will learn the importance of voting in order to help shape the running of this country. The students will examine the US Constitution as a contract between the national government and the people of the US.

Decision Making

HHttp:// In this activity students will create a text and photo journal display of major events of the civil rights movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s. Students will create books about their own dreams of freedom for Americans today. Students will examine issues involving the rights, roles and status of the individual by pretending to be new voters who need to become eligible to vote.

The students use a graphic organizer to display the three major factors that encouraged the beginnings of the civil rights movement. The students will write a reflective paper describing why they think the Declaration of Independence was not true for all people before the civil rights movement.

Science, Technology, and Society

The students will list how technology has improbed the capabilities and the rights of disabled persons. The students will debate the issue of the affect of tech- nology on the growth or decrease in the amount of racism. The students will discuss how the Internet has increased the amount of cultural awareness and multiculturalism.

The students will list African American men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science and engineering. The students will each create a hyperstudio presentation on what they learned about the civil rights movement.