Lesson Plan : Civil Rights Movement and Voting
Teacher Name: | Wanda Kindell |
Grade: | Grade 5 |
Subject: | Social Studies |
Topic: | Civil RightsMovement and Voting in Toay's Society |
Content: | civil rights Civil Rights Movement Voting Rights Act E.D. Nixon Rosa Parks Martin Luther King,Jr. Jim Crow Laws Sit-Ins Freedom Riders Civil Rights Activists Lydon Johnson Bloody Sunday Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Brown Chapel A.M.E |
Goals: | Students will develop a timeline that outlines events and key people during the Civil Rights Movement and explain how this movement impacts voting in today's society. |
Objectives: | A KWL Chart will be used to determine students' level of background knowledge. Students will explain what a timeline is and use their on experience to create one to demonstate understanding of a timeline. Students will work in groups to reseach some of the key events and report/teach classmates about knowledge obtained. |
Materials: | Guest Speakers www.civilrightmemorialcenter.com presentations from various websites |
Introduction: | Ask the question:"What was the Civil Rights Movement?" Have students draw cards that read White or Black. Select an issue that requires a decision be made by class vote and only allow students with cards marked "White" to vote. Then have a class discussion about how the activity made you feel among all class participants. Introduce the terms civil rights, Civil Rights Movement,discrimination, and Jim Crow Laws. |
Development: | Explain all the terms introduced and cite/show examples |
Practice: | Students will work cooperatively to determine if selected slides from a Power Point Presentation are examples of discrimation. Students will also be given definitions randomly and they will work with group members to match the words with the definitions. |
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Checking For Understanding: | Students will write a response to today's lesson which outlines what they learned,what additional information would they like to know, and what questions they had about today's activity. |
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Evaluation: | If students have demonstrated throught their reflections/feedback they've grasped understanding of terms introduced in this initial lesson,then I will feel good about the level of background knowledge they currently have. |
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