Darryl+Humphrey

This lesson plan evaluates all of the important events and people throughout African American History. [|African American history] is a significant part of American history that needs to be taught and explained in earlier in education. This lesson plan connects all the important events throughout time with the intentions of multiplying awareness and understating of African American history. Students will have a task of using a scavenger hunt to locate where and what these events are in history. They will use the websites provided to help them with their search. These websites are divided into categories of [|slavery], [|civil rights] , and other important times or events in history. This is a great way to show students the importance of African American history as it relates to American History and the timeline of events that goes with it.

Lesson Plan http://www.lessonplanspage.com/SSLACIBlackHistoryScavengerHunt78.htm

__Erin's Response:__ This sounds like such a good idea! I really like that the students will be on a scavenger hunt because it allows you to keep track of their progress easily & I don't know any kids who don't love scavenger hunts. I feel like covering all of African American history in one project is a pretty daunting task, instead maybe it could be a year long scavenger hunt where the scavenger hunt is broken up into parts & you could do a series of small scavenger hunts throughout the year instead of one long one. I also think it would be good to have some sort of 'pulling it all together' activity where the students could design a timeline of the events that they've learned about, or even just a class discussion of how each event led to the next to further exemplify the connection between past, present, and future.

Michelle's Response: I think that this lesson is a really good idea, but it may be too daunting for students at the 5th grade level. Instead of following the lesson plan activity for activity, the teacher should pick two or three websites that relate to specific/important events that impacted African American history. The idea of using a scavenger hunt as the base of the project is a great idea. It will keep the students engaged because they won't know what's coming up next in the activity. I noticed that there wasn't a final activity that had the students debrief on their activity, the addition of a final project, such as a timeline where students are to put the information they have collected in chronological order may be a good addition to the lesson.

__Danielle's Response:__ I think that this lesson plan is a very cool way to bring in technology with the teaching of African American history. The idea of it being a "scavenger hunt" may pull the students in right away as it seems more interesting than a simple school project. Although it is a lot of information, I think that this could easily be spread out as to bring up different parts of African American history throughout a month or something like that. Overall, I think this lesson plan is a very cool idea and I think the students would enjoy combining all of their findings at the end of the project and looking at it all in a timeline fashion.