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Lesson Plans - February

Conversation Heart Mailbox

Need a creative way to collect your Valentine’s Day cards this year? Try making this great conversation heart mailbox, perfect for a girl or a boy–your friends will love it!

Why Celebrate Black History Month

To utilize Internet resources for the immersion of students into Black History, they learn about the culture, heritage, family, church, and politics of the African-American and why we honor their accomplishments. Then they make class presentations.

Activity: Being Different is A-okay!

Growing your child’s social maturity is so important! It’s not always easy to accept others at first glance. Opportunities that might ease feelings about people that are “different” can promote tolerance and understanding.

Black Separatism or the Beloved Community? Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Is the separate black nation proposed by Malcolm X a better or nobler goal than “the beloved community” of Martin Luther King, Jr.?

Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nonviolent Resistance

Explain Martin Luther King, Jr.’s concept of nonviolent resistance and the role of civil disobedience within it.