Elementary School Lesson Plans
These lesson plans have been developed specifically for the early grades.
Lesson Plans By SC Educators
Learning about the Civil Rights Movement through Primary Sources and the Arts
The lesson plans in this website allow students to travel through five stations with five different teachers (or can be taught as a five-day unit with one teacher) to learn about the Civil Rights Movement. Teachers can dress up like a famous Civil Rights Leader and lead the lesson as if it were that person telling the story of the Civil Rights Movement.
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.