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February 2015

Freedom Quilt

I wanted to do something different with my second grade students for African American history month. I turned to Pinterest for some freedom quilt ideas, and found this fantastic blog post on a middle school African American history quilt project.  While I knew my second graders would not create what the middle school students did, I also knew I could add my own twist to it. A culminating project Once my students were halfway through our black history studies, I introduced the project.  I…

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Black History Month, Social Studies