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Black History Month—Engaging Educational Choices
Here is a good Website that will help teachers to highlight February, which is Black History month. There are many possibilities here for higher level thinking skills. While the activities are designed for the regular classroom, they are also open-ended. With proper guidance, groups of gifted students could take the concepts to a much deeper level.
AT&T’s Patchwork of African-American Life contains Websites that integrate the Internet into classroom learning around the subject of African-American life. In addition to learnign about Black History, students are asked to draw their own conclusions about specific situations and defend them. Each bulleted item below presents Black history in a different way. Some activities are inidividal, some are group activities, and some suggest working with other schools.
- Black History Hotlist—These links can be used as a jumping off point for independent research or to support an area of focus that the teacher chooses to emphasize.
- Black History Past to Present—Here you will find an interactive treasure hunt and quiz. Web sites that provide appropriate ways to find answers to the quiz are included. At the end of the exercise, students are asked to compose a thesis and essay stating what they feel are the most important aspects of African-American history.
- Sampling African America—This section engages students by helping them to feel personally connected to African-American history. It attempts to connect the student emotionally, thereby enabling him to feel that the subject is personally important.
- Little Rock 9, Integration 0—Through this WebQuest, students learn about nine African-American students who, back in 1957, chose to attend an all-white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas.
- Tuskegee Tragedy—In this WebQuest, students explore the issues of the Tuskegee Study and question the comparisons some people make to the study and such topics as abortion, gun control, and concentration camp experiments. By the time the study was exposed in 1972, a number of men had died of syphilis, others were dead of related complications, wives had been infected, and children had contracted the disease at birth.
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