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Lesson Idea Name: Exploring the Civil Rights Movement
Content Area: Social Studies
Grade Level(s): 5th

Content Standard Addressed:

SS5H6 Describe the importance of key people, events, and developments between 1950- 1975.

B. Explain the key events and people of the Civil Rights movement: Brown v. Board of Education
(1954), Montgomery Bus Boycott, the March on Washington, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act,
and civil rights activities of Thurgood Marshall, Lyndon B. Johnson, Cesar Chavez, Rosa Parks, and
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Technology Standard Addressed:

3. Knowledge Constructor
Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools
to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make
meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.
Selected Technology Tool:
Timeline
URL(s) to support the lesson (if applicable):
http://www.readwritethink.org/
Blooms Taxonomy Level(s):

Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating

Levels of Technology Integration (LoTi Level):

Level 1: Awareness Level 2: Exploration Level 3: Infusion Level 4: Integration

Level 5: Expansion Level 6: Refinement

Lesson idea implementation:
After learning about and becoming familiar with important events during the Civil Rights Movement, students
will create a timeline in partners to sequence the events. This will require them to recognize the significance of
each even and how it affected or created the need for the next event. They will also need to write a brief
explanation of the event and find a picture. Adding a picture will help the students to remember and associate
an image with the importance of the event.
Students should accurately sequence the events using Timeline. Once their Timeline is complete, they should
use it as a resource to write a two-paragraph summary of how these events are connected and their
significance. Having a resource like Timeline to reference while writing will be very beneficial for students who
struggle with writing. Students will then informally share their timelines with the class and discuss.

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