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Lesson Idea Name: Civil Rights Movement Timeline

Content Area: Social Studies
Grade Level(s): 5th grade

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.
c. Describe the impact on American society of the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Robert F.
Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Technology Standard Addressed:
ISTE 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. Students:
a. plan and employ effective research strategies to locate information and other resources for their
intellectual or creative pursuits.
b. evaluate the accuracy, perspective, credibility and relevance of information, media, data or other
resources.
c. curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods to create collections of
artifacts that demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions.
d. build knowledge by actively exploring real-world issues and problems, developing ideas and theories and
pursuing answers and solutions.
ISTE 6:Creative Communicator:
Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the
platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals. Students:
a. choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or
communication.
b. create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.
c. communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as
visualizations, models or simulations.
d. publish or present content that customizes the message and medium for their intended audiences.
Selected Technology Tool:
ReadWriteandThink
URL(s) to support the lesson (if applicable):
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/timeline_2/
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: Students will explore key events and people in the civil rights movement. The
students will already have an idea of what happened during the civil rights movement, and the people that
influenced it. The teacher will introduce how significant people affect certain events over a period of time.
The teacher will then model how using the timeline can organize events and dates in chronological order. This

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lesson is mostly going to be student based, and the teacher is only going to display the model she made using
the timeline software. It is up to the students to research a person that influenced the civil rights movement.
Students are creating a timeline, but there is an extent to their creativity and because of this it will take about
a week to finish. Within this week students will take time to gather and explore information about their
historic figure. In addition, the teacher will provide feedback for her students throughout the whole process.
The teacher will assess the students based on their ability to put major events in chronological order.
Students who are struggling with words have a choice to use pictures to describe the event. I would like to
end and extend the project by having the students publish their work on an online publishing site. The online
publishing site will keep students identity anonymous, and the teacher will seek permission before posting
anything on the internet.

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