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Lesson Plans - Technology

Thinking Ahead to Next Year

* write letters or create handbooks or a video offering advice to those students who will follow in their footsteps.
* write letters to themselves for the teacher to mail to them a year or more later.
* write letters to the teachers who will have them in class next year.

World Cup Soccer Lessons and Teaching Resources

TeacherPlanet brings you a variety of worksheets, activities, lesson plans and other teaching resources aimed at making the World Cup Football Tournament in South Africa in 2010 a truly memorable learning experience.

Three-Way Match: Famous Black Americans

Learn about the accomplishments of famous African American men and women using a unique three-way matching activity.

Melba Pattillo and Ruby Bridges: Two Pioneers of School Integration

Students put themselves in the shoes of the students who integrated Little Rock High School in 1957-58. Note: The primary resources in this activity provide powerful and poignant descriptions of what those students faced.

Build a Black History Database/Timeline

In this lesson, students use a word processing or spreadsheet program to organize a database/timeline of important events related to famous people in African American history.