This is a PowerPoint presentation on how to integrate technology when teaching about the Civil Rights Movement to elementary school students.

1. Civil Rights Movement
Alison Asmus
6th Grade Unit
Spring 2016

2. Rationale For Technology Integration
• Like most topics in history, the Civil Rights Movement is usually only
experienced by today’s children through textbooks. With the incorporation
of technology, students can full immerse themselves in the Civil Rights
Movement in a student-friendly way. They can watch videos of key
moments during this time in history, play interactive games, and fully
immerse themselves in the history of the Civil Rights movement in a fun
and exciting way.
• This PowerPoint will demonstrate how teachers can use interactive
websites, videos, podcasts, and apps to teach about the Civil Rights
movement and collaborate with their students to develop 21st Century
learning skills.
• Rationale for Technology Integration Recording

3. Internet Content
• All websites used in this presentation have proven to be reliable
sources of information related to teaching and the Civil Rights
Movement
• All links used are sited in the notes section.

4. Blog
• The Kids’ Blog, put our by the Indianapolis Public Library, has student-
friendly information on a variety of topics, including the Civil Right’s
Movement. The blog page for the Civil Rights Movement has
information about the movement itself as well as links for students to
learn more information.

5. Podcast
• This podcast by the National Museum of American History gives
Zoharah Simmons’s account of her involvement in the Civil Rights
Movement.
• The podcast comes with a guide for teachers to use to ask students
questions about the podcast and the Civil Rights Movement. Teachers
can have students listen to this podcast in class, or provide students
with the link to the podcast for homework or research purposes.
• Fighting For My Rights Podcast
• Podcast Teacher's Guide

6. Video
• This video provides a brief history, along with images and video, of
the Civil Rights Movement.
• Teachers can have students watch this video to introduce The Civil
Rights Movement or as a review.
• The Civil Rights Movement Video

7. Internet Resources
• Teaching Tolerance
• Teaching Tolerance is a resource for educators to find lessons for
students about multicultural tolerance. This website provides
many lessons for teachers about the Civil Rights Movement and
other topics that can be connected to this time in history.
• PBS American Experience
• The PBS American Experience website provides information on
various times in American history. This link leads to an interactive
timeline the Civil Rights Movement, with access to newspaper
articles, music, pictures and videos.
• History Channel Civil Rights Movement
• The History Channel website gives information of all topics in
history. This link leads to access to videos, pictures and speeches
from the Civil Rights Movement.

8. Kidspiration

9. Teaching Materials
• March is John Lewis’s two part, first
hand account of the Civil Rights
Movement.
• These two books can be used to give a
lesson on the Civil Rights movement
through the perspective of someone
who lived through this period.

10. Teaching Materials
• This “I have a dream..” writing worksheet
explains about Martin Luther King Jr.’s I have
a dream speech and prompts students to
write about their dream for the world.
• This writing worksheet can be used to get
students thinking about the Civil Rights
Movement and the changes that took place
because of this movement. It also allows
students to express what they want to see
changed for the world.

11. Teaching Materials
• The Civil Rights Activity Book
features puzzles, pictures and a
variety of activities to teach
elementary school students about
the Civil Rights Movement.

12. App
• Then and Now: Black History, which is an app
for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, gives users
information about 100 important people in
black history. Each historical figure featured in
this app has a short biography and a link to
related YouTube videos, where students can
see the impact each person has had on
history.
• This app can help students learn more about
the important figures of the Civil Rights
Movement.

13. Subject Specific Internet Resources
• The National Council for the Social Studies provides
a variety of educational resources for social studies
topics.
• Teachers can select which level they teach and use
resources available to teach any concept in social
studies, including the Civil Rights Movement.

14. Uses of the Internet
• Students can take a virtual field trip to important sites of the Civil
Rights Movement.
• This interactive field trip includes photographs, video and
information about the Civil Rights Movement as it took place in each
featured location.

15. Uses of the Internet
• Students can play the Civil Rights Movement History Mystery Game
to test their knowledge about this time in history. The goal of the
game is to solve the “history mystery” about the Civil Rights
movement with as little clues as possible.

16. Web 2.0
• Google Classroom allows teachers to
distribute and assess assignments, track
progress and collaborate with students
inside and outside of the classroom.

17. Web 2.0
• Emodo is a social media site for classrooms
where teachers, students and parents can
connect and collaborate with each other.