Martin Luther King Jr day is January 14, 2013 and his birthday is January 15, 2013. January is a great month to embed Civics, Constitution and Civil Rights into reading, writing and history lessons. Below are links to information to help you incorporate this important event in history into your lessons.
- Center for Civics in Education: (grades 6-12)Lesson plans for middle school and high school. **Note: This link from that website under "Resources" are lesson plans on other Civic Units.
- National Civil Rights Museum: Before the Boycott-Ride the Bus: (grades 4-12)When you get to this site you will need to click on "Launch the eLearning". Students will put in their name and then they will be walked through a decision making process and given facts about segregation. Very Cool!
- The King Center: One of two official sites for MLK. This link is to the Digital Archive to view thousands of primary resources written by Dr. King.
- Teachers First: (grades 2-5) Martin Luther King - An Integrated Lesson Unit for Primary Classrooms. Lesson plans...listen to the I Have a Dream speech.
- Kodaks Powerful Days in Black and White: Powerful images. When you click on a word it takes you to a site with a picture, be sure to use the "next" arrow on the page to view all the pictures in that group. After viewing the pictures make a Wordle word cloud about the images.
- Civil Rights: List of many websites on Civil Rights from eThemes.
- Life of MLK: 2 minute video on MLK Jr. Great intro for writing and research projects. Also, a good demonstration of a PhotoStory project.
- eThemes: List of Civil Rights links.
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