Social Studies/Black History

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1 Real Teachers Using Real Technology to Teach Real Kids in Real Classrooms with Real Results Program 105 Social Studies/Black History Copyright, 1998, WHRO

2 Program 105 Net Classrooms African American History Challenge Students will take an on-line quiz and use searching strategies and Internet research to locate answers. Lesson: African American History Challenge Author: Cheryl B. Wolfred State of Origin: Virginia Subject Area: Social Studies, Technology Grade Level: 6-8 Objective(s) Students will research and retrieve information from the Internet. Students will participate in an online quiz as a self-assessment tool. Students will identify areas of cultural diversity in U.S. history. National Standards Technology: Use content-specific tools to support learning and research. Summary Students will take an on-line quiz and use searching strategies and Internet research to locate answers. Technology and/or Materials Needed Computers with Internet access Previous experience searching the Internet Implementation Time Frame Two 45-minute class period Activities Prior to this lesson, you should review the Bright Moments website. Review the content and layout of site, and set up a class code. Begin this lesson in a computer lab setting, where all students have access to a computer individually or in pairs. Go to the search engine Alta Vista. In the search field, enter "Black History" as the keywords. Ask a student to identify how many "hits" this search produced. Browse through the first twenty hits and read summaries. Next, complete the same process using another search engine, Netscape. If the search produced the result of the following site, link to it. If not, write the full URL in the address field. The site used for this lesson is: Students should add this as a bookmark or favorite on their computers. Once all students are at this site, explain the purpose and layout of the site. Explain that there are two frames that the students will be using. Once they begin the level 1 quiz, the web page divides into three frames. Students should complete level one quiz individually or with a partner, and submit their score to you upon completion. Students can then move on to quiz 2 and 3 depending on time. If students finish early, they may go to the Stamp on Black History Month website to design a stamp. Word searches are also available at this site to print out and used as an alternative activity. Assessment Quizzes scores can be accessed online. Resources and Related Links

3 Bright Moments Black History Quiz ( Stamp on Black History ( Black History Web Design Each student or student team will be given a category for which to create a web page. Students will research and make decisions for content of the page. Each web page should contain at least six images and six links, as well as any necessary commentary. Students should indicate on the web page its purpose and school's address. Lesson: Black History Web Design Author: Cecilia Baker State of Origin: Virginia Subject Area: Technology, Social Studies Grade Level: 8-10 Objective(s) Students will use the Internet to research black history. Students will design a web page. National Standards Technology: Research and evaluate the accuracy, relevance, appropriateness, comprehensiveness, and bias of electronic information sources concerning real world problems; design, develop, publish, and present products using technology resources that demonstrate and communicate curriculum concepts to audiences in and outside of the classroom. Social Studies: Analyze group and institutional influences on people, events, and elements of culture. Summary Each student or student team will be given a category for which to create a web page. Students will research and make decisions for content of the page. Each web page should contain at least six images and six links, as well as any necessary commentary. Students should indicate on the web page its purpose and school's address. Technology and/or Materials Needed Computers with Internet access HTML editor, such as Netscape Composer Student experience in keyboarding and searching Internet Implementation Time Frame Seven 45-minute class period Activities Each student or pair of students will choose a category of black history. The categories include: Africans in the Diaspora African Art Black Images in Western Art "Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Belley" by Anne-Louis Girodet "Harpsichord Recital at Count Rumfords" by Benjamin Thomson "George Washington and Family" by Edward Savage "The Bone Player" by William Sidney Mount African American Artists Romare Bearden

4 Henry O Tanner Charles W. White John Biggers Elizabeth Catlett Jacob Lawrence Black Music Gospel and Spirituals Jazz and Blues Rhythm and Blues Rap Music and Hip Hop Classical and Opera (Marian Anderson, Leotyne Price, Kathlene Battle) Black Scientists and Mathematicians Black Novelists Richard Wright Ralph Ellison Toni Morrison James Baldwin Alice Walker Jamaica Kinkaid Black Inventors Black Cowboys Nate Love Baz Reeves Bill Pickett Black Jacks Black Seamen Blacks in the Military Blacks in the Revolutionary War - Black Patriots (James Armistead, Crispus Attucks), Black Loyalists Blacks during the War of 1812 Blacks during the Civil War Buffalo Soldiers Blacks during World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Persian Gulf The Harlem Renaissance The Back to Africa Movement Paul Cuffee Marcus Garvey The Civil Rights Movement NAACP SNCC CORE Black Panther Party Civil Rights Leaders Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X

5 Medgar Evans Ralphe Bunche Black Athletes The Negro Leagues Integration of the Major Leagues Blacks and the Labor Movement A. Philip Randolph Blacks and the Justice System Dred Scott Plessy vs. Ferguson Scottsboro Boys Brown vs. Board of Education Blacks in the Media Film, Television, Newspapers Black Politicians The Black Church Once students have their topic, they should spend three to four of the class periods researching their topic using search engines and sites provided. They should evaluate each site critically as they choose images and information. Images should be saved to student folders on the hard drive or to disks. Students should take notes on the content so they can summarize and put in their own words on their pages. Once all of the content has been chosen, students will create a web page. Parts of this process should be completed together so students can learn how to add images and text, and change characteristics of text, background, and layout. Assessment Each web page can be assessed for layout and content. Resources and Related Links Search Engines: Yahoo AltaVista Dogpile Other important sites: Encarta Online ( Africans in America ( Black History in New Hampshire ( The National Gallery ( The Library of Congress, African Mosaic ( African Americans in Early American Military History ( Bayly Art Museum ( Lest We Forget ( Lest We Forget The Untold History of America ( Black American West Museum ( Net Wise

6 Designing web pages has been made easier with the use of electronic publishing on the Internet. The first step is to create a storyboard, draw a picture, of what you want your page to look like. You can then begin building your page using an html editor that puts the tags in for you. Claris Homepage is an example of an html editor you can use to create your web page. Net Wise Terms CGI - A CGI is a small program that takes data from a web server and does something with it, like turning the data into a database query or content into an message. GIF - (Graphic Interchange Format) -- A common format for image files, especially suitable for images containing large areas of the same color. HTML - (HyperText Markup Language) -- The coding language used to create Hypertext documents for use on the World Wide Web. JPEG - (Joint Photographic Experts Group) -- JPEG is most commonly mentioned as a format for image files. JPEG format is preferred to the GIF format for photographic images. Hypertext - Text containing links to other documents - words or phrases in the document that can be chosen by a reader causing another document to be retrieved and displayed. Net Safety With electronic publishing becoming more common in our schools, it's important to watch what information students are putting on the Web. Pictures and names of students should not be used when creating publications. Students need to abide by their school's Acceptable Use Policy to guide them in what is appropriate.