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Education World Resource Roundup: Rosa Parks

On February 4, people around the nation will celebrate the birthday of Rosa Parks, one of the most influential Civil Rights activists in history. Education World has plenty of resources educators can use in order to effectively teach their students about the heroic life of Rosa Parks. 

Here is an Education World round up of resources, lesson plans, and activities to celebrate Rosa Parks. 

  1. Lesson Plans, Activities to Celebrate Rosa Parks: In this article, Education World has a list of lesson plans and activities teachers can bring to the classroom, including:
  • Rosa Parks- Heroes and their Impact: In this lesson plan students will:
    • review the characteristics of a hero and relate them to Rosa Parks.
    • explain why acting philanthropically is good for the individual and community.
    • identify the relationship of individual rights and community responsibility. identify community as the degree that people come together for the common good.
    • write a letter to someone he or she admires to ask a question or make a statement.
  • ReadWriteThink: Students are asked to write a newspaper editorial explaining their views on the current segregation laws in Montgomery, Alabama. 
  1. Rosa Parks Changed the Rules: In this activity, students will complete a diagram of the Montgomery Bus with the help of a worksheet. Students can also learn background information on Parks through a video and brief history provided in the article. 
  2. Video Roundups: Rosa Parks: Teachers can choose between these five videos to teach their students about the life of Rosa Parks and the impact she had on the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Martin Luther King, Jr. 
  3. Remembering Rosa Parks: This article offers an obituary by The New York Times and links to resources teachers can use to teach about Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement in their classroom.
  4. Six Books to Celebrate Rosa Parks: In this article by Education World, teachers can find different books about Rosa Parks to read to their students. 

Some outside resources:

 

Article by Kassondra Granata, Education World Contributor