Civil Rights Movement Lesson Plan & PowerPoint

This is a truly amazing, visually-engaging 26-slide PowerPoint presentation on the key events, people, and challenges of the Civil Rights Movement.

Each slide is beautifully arranged with excellent pictures and focused text that gives students essential information in a simple way for them to understand what is important. It includes fantastic quotes from Civil Rights leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy as well as 3 embedded Youtube videos, political cartoons, a warm up, and an exit ticket.

The lesson highlights the accomplishments of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X as well as focusing on their methods for achieving change. Events covered include the March on Washington, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act, and 1968 Summer Olympics.

Your American History and Civics students will definitely realize the power of these amazing people and be able to see and hear their inspirational words with this lesson. This is definitely one of my students' memorable classes from the year.

  

You can download this amazing lesson plan for your students by clicking here! It is only $4.99 for teachers everywhere in my Teachers Pay Teachers store!

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Two New 3D Foldable Lessons for Elementary Students

Just posted two great new products to our store today!

The first is a lesson you can download here about Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This fun, hands-on project has students creating their own bus after reading the story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Included is a short, one-page story about Rosa Parks and how the famous bus boycott began. Students then use the includes templates to cut out and color buses based off pictures of the actual bus Rosa Parks was arrested on. On top of the bus, students then write an adjective that describes Rosa Parks based on the story and present it to the class. 

Other lesson ideas are includes as well, including: a taking notes, a role-play, watching a linked video, and writing a passage on what they would do. Two bus template cut outs are included: one colored already and one your students can color. This is a fantastic, fun activity to help your students get to know a civil rights hero!

The second project is about Abraham Lincoln and can be downloaded by clicking here. This similar "craftivity" has your students read a short, one page story about President Abraham Lincoln and his two most famous works: the Emancipation Proclamation and Gettysburg Address.

Students then create a 3D figure of Lincoln holding both documents with an included cut & fold template. They must summarize the importance of both documents onto the cut-out based on what they read. The completed figure makes for a wonderful classroom decoration and displays their learning through the two summaries.

There are two templates to choose from: one in color already and one your students can color. This is a wonderful activity for your visual and kinesthetic learners and great way to reinforce the significance of Lincoln's famous words!

Both of these lessons can be found in our store - http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Students-Of-History.

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