3rd+Grade

Welcome 3rd Graders!

=There are countless African-Americans who have made a difference in the world we live in today. Their hard-work, discipline, determination and faith carried them through tumultuous experiences. The sacrifices that these Americans made have afforded many of us the freedoms and luxuries we enjoy today. We will examine a small sampling of African-American Heroes. There are thousands of unsung heroes whose contributions have gone undocumented. = = = =We will be exploring the following website(s) to complete a Black History Month project: =

National Geographic

Enchanted Learning

Encyclopedia Britannica

Interactive Coloring Pages

**__ Exploration Quest 1 __** Today students will explore the links listed above and select a person of interest. Students will be asked to choose a person that has made major contributions to our communities and to the world we live in. Each student will open up a Word 2007 document and write the name of their person in bold text. Student will answer the following questions using complete sentences:


 * Briefly explain why you chose this person?
 * Find and write (2) interesting facts about this person
 * What did this person do/say that made a difference in his/her community?


 * __ Black History Hero Quilt __**

Using your person of interest, we will create a "Black History Hero" quilt. Each student will create one patch for this collaborative quilt. Each patch will contain a "Cinquain" for the person of interest that you chose. See the.

A Cinquain is a 5 line poem. It follows the following pattern: Line 1: (1) word (subject or noun) -Name of your person Line 2: (2) words (adjectives that describes the subject in line 1) Line 3: (3) words (verbs that relate to the subject in line 1) Line 4: (4) words or one complete sentence (that relates to the subject in line 1) Line 5: (1) synonym or one word that sums up (subject in line 1)

Each student will also decorate their patch.

**__ Exploration Quest 2 __** In this activity students will work with a partner to match famous African American men and women to their accomplishments and to the year in which those accomplishments occurred. Students will use the online resources of Encyclopedia Britannica's Black History Biographies (select Biographies from the menu) to complete the activity. This activity is slightly different from the typical two-column matching activity with which students are familiar. In this three-way matching activity students I have provided two printable work pages for this quest. One page focuses on famous African American women and the other highlights the accomplishments of African American men. You may choose which page you wish to complete.
 * first draw a line in from the person's name in the left column to that person's accomplishment (in the middle column);
 * then they draw a line from the accomplishment in the middle column to the year in which that accomplishment occurred in the far-right (third) column.
 * Famous African American Women
 * Famous African American Men