Resources
Material Needed:
1. Computers - at the very least, you'll need one per group of five students but the project would go quite slowly without many more than that.
2. Index cards
3. Copies of the Evaluating Web Pages Worksheet. You'll need more than one of these per student, since some students will use several websites.
4. Copies of the Group Process Worksheet: one per group.
5. Copies of the Student Assessment Worksheet: one per student.
6. Copies of the rubric: one per group.
7. Presentation technology such as a projector, if necessary.
Supplementary Material
You might also wish to have an introduction to the Civil Rights Movement to begin the experience. One option might be a picture book about a major figure in the Movement. Some good choices are:
You could also begin with music of the Civil Rights Movement and a discussion. Possible discussion questions might be:
1. Where have you heard these songs before?
2. Why do you think so many civil rights songs are from church?
3. What ways could inspirational songs from church be used by people in a struggle like the Civil Rights Movement? (You can tell a story of the Freedom Riders singing their way through jail time.)
Some compact discs that might work are:
Songs of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs, 1960-1966
We Shall Overcome: Songs of the Freedom Riders and the Sit-ins