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Black History Month: Everything You Need

Meet African American icons, leaders, activists, and inventors with these teaching resources.

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Interactive Whiteboard Activities

The Underground Railroad: Escape from Slavery

Grades: 3–5, 6–8, 9–12

With this interactive slideshow, students follow the path of a slave in 1860 as he travels the Underground Railroad to freedom.

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Articles

13 Ways to Celebrate Black History Month

Grades: 3–5, 6–8, 9–12

Explore exceptional African-American achievements with these cross-curricular activities.

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Black History Month Resources

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12

Discover excellent books for teaching Black History at The Teacher Store.

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Online Learning Activities

Culture and Change: Black History in America

Grades: 3–5, 6–8, 9–12

Students follow history with an interactive timeline, meet famous African Americans, explore jazz music, and much more.

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Online Learning Activities

Rosa Parks: How I Fought for Civil Rights

Grades: 3–5, 6–8

In this online activity, share the heroic story of Rosa Parks, who played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights movement.

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Online Learning Activities

Integrating Central High: The Melba Pattillo Story

Grades: 3–5, 6–8, 9–12

Through reading and writing activities, students explore the life of Melba Pattillo, one of the nine African American students who integrated Central...

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Online Learning Activities

History of Jazz: A Black History in America Activity

Grades: 3–5, 6–8, 9–12

Students will learn about jazz from its beginning in New Orleans to modern jazz today through text and audio.

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Computer Lab Activities

Black History: A Math Hunt Activity

Grades: 3–5, 6–8

Meet extraordinary leaders and learn about African American culture on this historic hunt. You'll master an array of skills as you earn points for...

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Wynton Marsalis Interview Transcript

Grades: 3–5, 6–8

Grammy Award-winning musician Wynton Marsalis joined Scholastic for a live interview on February 26, 2002 where he answered student posted...

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The Top Ten African-American Inventors

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This content resource is one in the series of Top Ten African American Inventors. This index page links to ten sites providing brief summaries of...

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Lesson Plans, Book Resources

How Do You Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day?

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8

Real teachers share their favorite ways to honor the life and legacy of the Civil Rights leader.

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Lesson Plans, Book Resources

Jackie's Nine Lesson Plan

Grades: 6–8

From the unique perspective that only a daughter could have, Sharon Robinson serves as a personal tour guide through the nine heart-felt, hard-won...

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Discussion Guides, Book Resources

Freedom's Wings: Corey's Diary Discussion Guide

Grades: 3–5

A discussion guide to Freedom's Wings: Corey's Diary, Kentucky to Ohio, 1857 by Sharon Dennis Wyeth in the My America historical fiction series....

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Collections

Article Archive: Martin Luther King Jr. and African American History

Grades: 3–5, 6–8

Dozens of articles on heroes of the civil rights movement, black history, and more

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Articles

Famous African Americans Wax Museum

Grades: 3–5

Students immerse themselves in the experiences and accomplishments of extraordinary African Americans by speaking as them in first person.

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Lesson Plans

An American Hero: Martin Luther King Jr.

Grades: PreK–K

This lesson plan introduces young students to the contributions of Dr. King and has them consider how to make the world a better place.

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Back To Africa: Marcus Garvey (a play)

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A play shows how Marcus Garvey inspired hundreds of thousands of people as president of UNIA.

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African-American History Web Resources

Grades: 3–5, 6–8, 9–12

This guide to links outside of Scholastic covers important topics such as school integration, the NAACP, Emancipation, and the Freedman's Bureau...

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Articles

Bibliography for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Grades: 3–5

A list of books about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and those important to his work in the 20th-century civil rights movement in the United States....

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Interview with Rachel Robinson

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Read the transcript of an online interview with Rachel Robinson, the wife of Major League Baseball pioneer Jackie Robinson.

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The Narrative of Venture Smith

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Captured by an enemy tribe in Africa, then sold into slavery in America, one man managed to beat the odds.

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Fugitive Slave Harriet Jacobs: Coming Up For Air

Grades: 3–5, 6–8, 9–12

For seven years, Harriet Jacobs hid out in an attic to escape slavery. Read an excerpt from her powerful autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a...

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Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I A Woman?

Grades: 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12

Read an inspirational excerpt from Sojourner Truth's electrifying speech to the Ohio Women's Rights convention of 1851.

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