I love celebrating black history month with my class. This year, I am teaching a new grade level for the first time. I want to do something new, and I found myself needing some new black history month activities. So I turned to the internet, and found some wonderful fresh activities for black history month. I thought I’d combine all of the wonderful ideas I discovered into one post. Enjoy! Why Celebrate Black History Month? Black history is a part…
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This time of year my students and I focus on our African American history studies. In class, we study many famous African Americans. At home, my students continue their learning by…
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One thing I love about being an Elementary classroom teacher, is the ability to incorporate Social Studies into my existing curriculum. This allows me to make Social Studies lessons fun! There…
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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…
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As you begin your African American history unit, there are a few things you should remember. Most importantly, there is a lot of history that you can cover. As adults, its…
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Teaching history can be tricky at times. We want to teach African American history, but we don’t want to make our students feel guilty or bad about the history of slavery…
