Hello welcome back to our third blog post! Ideally, this lesson will be aimed for 8 and 9 year olds who would be in third or fourth grade. We are going to be teaching about the beginning basics on the who, what, where, when, and why of the Civil Rights. Mainly, talking about Rosa Parks who was one influential civil rights leader during that time that made an impact. We are planning on using the book, The Bus Ride That Changed History, written by Pamela Duncan. Ally and I are going to create a lesson plan on the main points, people, and timeline of the civil rights movement making it taught respectfully, and clear as possible so they are able to understand this difficult time. In terms of using Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligence, we are using visual-spatial and interpersonal intelligences to teach our lesson. We want the students to be able to visually view the movement with pictures and videos to understand this difficult time and make understanding easier. In terms of interpersonal intelligence, a strength that we viewed was that it makes you understand and relate to others. Those who are strong in this area are better with engaging in conversation with others. We are going to show a photo journal of photos from that time giving another way they can start coming full circle with the basics of what they need to know from this time. I feel it makes more sense If they are seeing instead of just reading about it. We will then ask students to discuss in groups what they see and plan on answering any questions they have still remaining to discuss or any confusion. Possibly ask questions to them of what they see, or what they think is happening. Our main point of display would be a timeline, with important dates that we had shown in the photo journal. Next, we will read the book, The Bus Ride That Changed History. After reading the book I will have students fill out an exit slip on their final thoughts and anything else they are confused about. This will allow more engagement, and clarity to us as teachers what we know they gained out of this lesson.

Overall, I think that this is a really influential lesson that needs to be taught to children, and that students need to be familiar with even though it is at times a sensitive topic to teach to children to fully have them understand.

Resources:
Scholastic Timeline. http://www.scholastic.com/content/dam/teachers/lesson-plans/migrated-featured-files/lessonplans_graphicorg_pdfs_timeline_1.pdf.

Click to access lessonplans_graphicorg_pdfs_timeline_1.pdf

This is a credible source because its from scholastic where I remember in elementary school all teachers would use this and give catalogs out to students to buy books from. Using this timeline will give the students a better idea on what happened first and what resulted from the other.

Civil Rights. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/ushistory/civilrights/.

This is a credible source because it will engage the students as the first thing they see, so it will reel them in and engage their interest.

Edwards, P. D., & Shanahan, D. (2009). The bus ride that changed history: the story of Rosa Parks. Boston: Sandpiper.

This is credible because it is a children’s book that will not only is the main part of our lesson on Rosa Parks, it will give students a chance to listen to a story rather than looking at videos or pictures.

Scholarly sources:

Hafiz, A. (2005). Rosa Parks: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement: 1913 – 2005. Off Our Backs,35(9/10), 10-10. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/20838459

This is a credible source because it is founded from the SHU library resource page, and has credible information about Rosa Parks.

Uhl, X. M. (2016). The Passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Abdo Publishing. Retrieved from https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=978754&site=eds-live&scope=site

This is a credible source because its from the SHU library resource page, and has important information about the civl rights act of 1964.

Sharif D. Scholastic News, Teacher’s Guide, Vol. 74, No. 9, November 21, 2005. Scholastic News — Edition 5/6 (Teacher’s Edition). 2005;74(9):T1-T4

This is a credible source because its from scholastic which is used by many educators, and was credibly found through the SHU library resource page. This will help us give information to the students about the background of Rosa Parks, and some dates for the timeline.