Civil Rights Movement 19551965 Third Grade

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Civil Rights Movement1955-1965Third Grade

• Carley Werner, Jenni Goetz,
• Sara Naff, and Stephanie Staley

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Table of Contents

• History
• People in Societies
• Geography
• Economics
• Government
• Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities
• Social Studies Skills and Methods

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Freedom is never given it is won
Phillip Randolph
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Ohio Academic Content Standard History

• Activity 1 The students will create a timeline
  of the important events that contributed to the
  Civil Rights Movements. They can use pictures or
  sentence strips to put each event in the correct
  order.

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Ohio Academic Content Standard History

• Activity 2 The students will write a
  reflection paper about the importance of the
  Civil Rights Movement on our country.
• Activity 3 The students will write a biography
  about Martin Luther King, Jr. and his
  contributions to the Civil Rights Movement.
• Activity 4 The students will review a map of
  Martin Luther King, Jr.s
  March to Freedom. The students will create
  their own map of a march they would like to
  take.

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Ohio Academic Content Standard History

• Activity 5 The students will identify three
  people or events that contributed to the Civil
  Rights Movement by completing a worksheet.

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Websites

• Seattle Times
• http//seattletimes.newsource.com/mlk/index.html
• Webcorp Voices of Civil Rights Movement
• http//www.webcorp.com/civilrights/voices.html
• March to Freedom
• http//www.msnbc.com//onair/modules/selma.asp
• National Civil Rights Movement Virtual Tour
• http//www.mecca.org
• Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement
• http//www.wmich.edu/politics/mlk

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Ohio Academic Content Standard People in
Societies

• Activity 1 The students will compare and
  contrast the daily life of Americans from during
  the Civil Rights Movement to the present day.
• Activity 2 The students will create a chart
  that list qualities of the people involved in the
  Civil Rights Movement.
• Activity 3 As a class, the students will be
  broken into small groups to role play the
  different views from each leaders perspective.

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Ohio Academic Content Standard People in
Societies

• Activity 4 The students will explain what
  contributions each person made towards the Civil
  Rights Movement by writing a narrative.
• Activity 5 The students will use a large
  selection of books about Ruby Bridges to research
  how people felt about her and the actions she
  chose.

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Websites

• Ruby Bridges
• http//www.rubybridges.com
• Brown vs. Board of Education
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/brown_v._board_of_edu
  cation
• Rosa Parks Biography
• http//www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/parobio-1
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• http//www.buildthedream.org
• Civil Rights Movement
• http//www.africana.com/H_199.htm

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Ohio Academic Content Standard Geography

• Activity 1 The students will construct a map
  of the location of all the events.
• Activity 2 Have the students look at several
  types of maps and understand how to read the key
  to identify the important locations.
• Activity 3 The students will compare and
  contrast the sizes of the cities where the events
  took place.

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Ohio Academic Content Standard Geography

• Activity 4 The students will locate the
  birthplace of each important person in the Civil
  Rights Movement.
• Activity 5 Have the students create a map
  of where everyone in the class lives and
  discuss how they are all a part of one city.

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Websites

• Ruby Bridges Foundation
• http//www.rubybridges.org
• Civil Rights
• http//www.nationalcenter.org/brown.html
• Rosa Parks The Woman Who Changed the Nation
• http//www.grandtimes.com/rosa.html
• The King Center
• http//thekingcenter.org
• Marin Luther King, Jr.
• http//www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laure
  ates/1964/king-bio.html

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Ohio Academic Content Standard Economics

• Activity 1 The students will compare goods and
  services from then to now focusing on equality
  between the races.
• Activity 2 At the beginning of the day, split
  the class up into two groups. (Could be decided
  by shirt color, hair color, boys and girls, etc.)
  Throughout the day, allow one group more rights.
  (Drinks throughout class, participation in
  certain activities, and separated during recess)
  At the end of the day, have the class reflect
  aloud how they felt.

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Ohio Academic Content StandardEconomics

• Activity 3 Have the students discuss and
  describe what work opportunities are available
  for African Americans.
• Were they able to do these jobs before the Civil
  Rights Movement?
• Activity 4 Students will research about Martin
  Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Ruby Bridges, or
  Brown vs. Board of Education role in society.
• Activity 5 Have the class discuss what goods
  and services were available to each social class.
  
• They can use books or internet sites to help
  research.

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Websites

• African American History and Culture
• http//lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mss/guide/african.html
• Enchanted Learning
• http//www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/mlk.sh
  tml
• American Social Classes in the 1950s
• http//befordstmartins.com/usingseries/hovey/horow
  itz.html
• Americans Behind True Color Line
• http//www.americanprogress.org
• Civil Rights Movement Heros
• http//www.infoplease.com/spot/crmheroes1.html

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Ohio Academic Content Standard Government

• Activity 1 Divide class into 5 groups. Each
  group will be responsible for researching and
  creatively presenting on 5 different influential
  people in the Civil Rights Movement.
• Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., John F.
  Kennedy v. Richard Nixon, Thurgood Marshall,
  Lyndon Johnson, Ruby Bridges, etc.
• Activity 2 Discuss the importance of the
  leaders and laws that were implemented throughout
  the Civil Rights Movement. Where would we be
  without them? Allow the children to work in pairs
  to illustrate what they think school would be
  like without any teachers, principals, or school
  rules.

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Ohio Academic Content Standard Government

• Activity 3 Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his
  I Have a Dream speech at the historical
  landmark The Lincoln Memorial. Have the
  students construct and share their own I Have a
  Dream speech using a provided template for
  guidance.

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Ohio Academic Content Standard Government

• Activity 4 In reference to the Little Rock
  Nine, have students write a reflection on how
  they would feel and what they would do if someone
  told them they could not come to school due to
  their skin color.
• Activity 5 Students will be journalists. Have
  them work in groups to construct their own front
  page newspaper article about Rosa Parks arrest.
  She was arrested for taking a stand and refusing
  to give up her seat on the bus. They should
  include pictures, research, opinions, and
  predictions of possible consequences.

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Websites

• Civil Rights Movement Timeline
• http//www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline
  1.html
• African-American Civil Rights Movement
  (1955-1968)
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Rights
  _Movement_(1955-1968)
• We Shall Overcome
• http//www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/
• The Civil Rights Movement 1955-1965 Introduction
• http//www.watson.org/lisa/blackhistory/civilrigh
  ts-55-65/index.html
• The Civil Rights Movement
• http//www.cnn.com/EVENTS/1997/mlk/links.html

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Ohio Academic Content Standard Citizenship Rights
and Responsibilities

• Activity 1 Without collaborative efforts, the
  Civil Rights Movement would not have succeeded.
  Students will work together in small groups to
  construct a log cabin made of pretzel sticks and
  peanut butter. Will they succeed?
• Activity 2 Due to the Civil Rights Movement,
  students have rights today that they might not
  have had otherwise. We will work as a class to
  plant peace flowers on school grounds to make
  our community a better place.

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Ohio Academic Content Standard Citizenship Rights
and Responsibilities

• Activity 3 The Civil Rights Movement fought for
  the rights of ALL American citizens. Each
  student will choose one person of influence from
  the movement. They will be given a small U.S
  flag to write that persons name on. As a class,
  they will put the flags on the front lawn of the
  school in remembrance of those significant
  citizens.
• Activity 4 Students will write a reflection
  expressing how they want to be remembered. What
  will they do to leave a mark on their world?

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Ohio Academic Content Standard Citizenship Rights
and Responsibilities

• Activity 5 Students will create their own Good
  Citizenship Award to give to a fellow classmate,
  recognizing a good deed done.

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Websites

• The Civil Rights Era
• http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart
  9.html
• Civil Rights Movement Veterans
• http//crmvet.org/
• USA History Civil Rights Movement
• http//www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcivilright
  s.htm
• The Civil Rights Movement
• http//www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/textbooks/civil
  rights.html
• Civil Rights Movement Heroes
• http//www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmheroes1.html

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Ohio Academic Content Standard Social Studies
Skills and Methods

• Activity 1 Family Feud. As a review of the
  unit, divide the class in half and play the game
  in a fact or fiction manner. Be sure to use a
  buzzer!
• Activity 2 Students will examine different
  timelines from the Civil Rights era. They will
  use these as a reference in creating their very
  own life timeline using pictures and descriptions.

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Ohio Academic Content Standard Social Studies
Skills and Methods

• Activity 3 Students will interview a
  grandparent or another relative who lived during
  the Civil Rights Movement.
• Activity 4 Students will be sent on a scavenger
  hunt in the school library to find answers to
  specific Civil Rights questions.
• They may use books, internet, magazines,
  periodicals, etc.

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Ohio Academic Content Standard Social Studies
Skills and Methods

• Activity 5 Students will write a Thank-You
  letter to their favorite influential person from
  the Civil Rights Movement. This will conclude
  the unit!

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Websites

• Civil Rights Movements
• http//afroamhistory.about.com/od/civilrightsmovem
  ent/Civil_Rights_Movement.htm
• Welcome
• http//library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/Welcome.htm
  
• March on Washington
• http//www.abbeville.com/civilrights/washington.as
  p
• Psychedelic 60s
• http//www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/sixties
  /civil.html
• Kids Report Civil Rights
• http//www.madison.k12.wi.us/tnl/detectives/kids/K
  IDS-000314.html

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• The Declaration of Independence, issued on July
  4, 1776, stated "We hold these truths to be
  self-evident That all men are created equal..."