Elementary School Lesson Plans
Lesson Plans by SC Educators
(recently added are listed first)
Silent Resistance – The Silent Fight for Civil Rights While Enslaved
This website looks at one of the most common and important acts of resisting the institution of slavery: maintaining cultural identify. By keeping the cultural traditions of their homeland alive, they silently resisted the psychological breakdown during the process of enslavement and continued their fight for their civil rights while creating a new and unique culture.
Learning about the Civil Rights Movement through Primary Sources and the Arts
Desegregation of Schools
Students will analyze five primary source documents/images to discover the realities of the events that happened after Brown vs Board of Education and during desegregation of schools in the Civil Rights Movement.
A Process for Protests and Progress
Students will examine how the March on Washington impacted the Civil Rights Act.
Civil Rights: Making it Real & Relevant to Students
The students will be able to use primary sources to appreciate the relevance of the Civil Rights movement.