After conducting my research, The text I will be focusing on will be, The Bus Ride that changed history: The Story of Rosa Parks by Pamela Duncan Edwards. The grades I will be aiming to teach this to would be to 2nd and 3rd grade students who will be around the age of 8, and 9. Using Gardner’s intelligences I intend to use visual-spatial, and interpersonal. Visual spatial are people who are good at visualizing things, and are very good at interpreting photos. I believe that if we use this as a way to teach the students, they can be able to interpret and go deeper into the meanings of the photos we display of this time of the civil rights were they will be having in depth talks about what they see happening. Next we are going to focus on their interpersonal intelligence. This means that they understand and relate to other people, by identifying their emotions and motivations. This is beneficial in a way that after learning about the civil rights and viewing all the photos, the students will be able to go deeper into getting to the emotions of those in that time and try to relate to how they feel. This is because students who are able to visually view the information or photos shown will get a better understanding in more ways.

In our lesson, we want to engage the students and make them want to learn. Growing up, watching brain pop always got me so enthusiastic about the next lesson. We are going to show the class a brain pop video on civil rights and get the students ready and engage in the visuals being shown. Next we would have a power point presentation displaying The Who, what, where, when and why of the Civil Rights including one of the most influential importances of Rosa Parks giving the students an introduction on what they are going to be learning about. Here is were we would include the reading of the book, and get them more familiar with an important activist in this movement. Our main part of the lesson would include a photo journal of different photos of the civil rights movements, activists, and all our moments in our history that will give them a chance to interpret, and discuss their feelings, and how the people in the photos are feeling. Lastly, we are going to include an interactive exit slip where they’re going to discuss in their groups their feelings about learning insight in the Civil Rights movement, the feelings of the people involved, and what they think should be done to make this never happen again. For this lesson plan, we had a difficult time trying to figure out how we wanted to introduce this sensitive influential topic on 3rd and 4th grades, but I feel they are at an appropriate age of were they need to start learning about this important part of history. To overcome this we were able to make it more kid friendly adding in the brain pop.