Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about a famous person. Learners will research an important figure and then write down two true statements and one false statement.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

Learn about the Tuskegee Institute, an important site in American History. It was one of the first universities made to help educate African Americans.

Children learn about the history and legacy of Eatonville, Florida, one of the first all-black towns formed after the passage of the 13th Amendment.

Martin Luther King, Jr. is honored as one of the most important leaders in the civil rights movement. Give your fourth and fifth graders a chance to deepen their understanding of his life and legacy through this reader’s theater activity.

Celebrate Black History Month by studying the contributions of African-American jazz legend Charlie Parker!

Inspire kids to learn about black changemakers all year by displaying this poster at home or in the classroom.

Children learn about writer and poet Langston Hughes in this Historical Heroes: Langston Hughes worksheet.

Have your social studies student try her hand and writing her own protest song in this creative worksheet.

In this worksheet, students learn how the Sit-In movement began, and the impact it had on both the region and the country.