WebQuest

Civil Rights.. Through the Eyes of a Child

Process

Materials-  Social Studies notebook, Construction Paper, binding material, coloring tools 

 

Step 1:

You will all begin by exploring the following websites to get general background knowledge on the Civil Rights Movement. 

As you look through the site think about these questions and record your findings in your history notebook

  • How are children affected by segergation?
  • What types of things are people doing to bring equality to everyone in America?
  • Who are some of the major learders of these activities and what are the doing to see change?
  • What events would you like to learn more about?

http://www.voicesofcivilrights.org/history.html

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html

 

 

Step 2:

Now that you have some general knowledge of the Civil Rights Movement, each member of the group will choose a different topic to look into more indepth, the choices are: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, The Little Rock Nine, and Martin Luther King and the March on Washington.  There are questions about each topic that will guide you through your exploration, but also be looking for information that you think you could use in your story, as well as, any information you think your group members will find interesting.

 

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott: 

 

What did Rosa Parks do that made her a major person in the Civil Rights Movement?

Why did the people of Montgomery decide to boycott all the buses in the city? 

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmheroes1.html

 

This site will talk more about Rosa and provide more information on the bus boycott:

  • What is the NAACP? 
  • What was its role in the boycott? 
  • What other major figures were a part of the boycott?

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/modern/parks_1

 

The Timeline feel free to click on the video clips to hear from people who expeinced the event first hand.  

  • How long did the boycott last? 
  • What were the big moments that would have made the news, that a child might have heard about?

http://www.montgomeryboycott.com/timeline_flash.htm 

 

  • Biographies- Read the biographies of both Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin.  What did these women have in common? 
  • Why are they so important?

http://www.montgomeryboycott.com/index_bio.htm 

 

 

The Little Rock Nine:

 

Use this site to learn more about who the Little Rock Nine were. 

  • Why did these students face so much trouble when all they wanted to do was go to school? 
  • What type of things did they have to deal with on their way to school? 
  • What does segregation mean?

http://pbskids.org/wayback/civilrights/features_school.html

 

Here is a video clip about the impact of the Civil Rights Movement on students in schools: You will need to select Video Segments and then click on School Segregation: Brown v. The Board of Education and the Little Rock Nine (05:49), to watch just the clip on school segregation. 

  • What was the case Brown v. The Board of Education about?
  • Did everyone agree with the courts decision?
  • What types of events did the girl from the Little Rock Nine describe and experince?
  • How would the student that you write as, have heard about this event?

http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/search/assetDetail.cfm?guidAssetID=4FF4D77A-0ED5-4BEB-9E34-62879D305ED4

 

Here is an interview with one of the Little Rock Nine. You don't have to read the answers to all the questions but you should read at least 6.  Try to get a good idea of what it would be like to be an African American student during this time.

http://pbskids.org/wayback/civilrights/buzz/index.html

 

Martin Luther King and the March on Washington 

 

Read the information about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

  • What type of protest did Dr. King support?

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmheroes1.html

 

Use this timeline of Dr. King's life to understand what he did through out his life to help the Civil Rights Movement (skip to 1950).

  •  What types of activities did Dr. King particapate in?
  • Is there ever a point in Dr. King's life when you question why he contiued to fight?  What do you think was motivating him?

http://www.thekingcenter.com/mlk/chronology.html

 

Read about the March on Washington:

  • What was the March on Washington?
  • Why is this an important event in the Civil Rights Movement? 

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/marchonwashington.html 

 

This is the video of the speech that Dr. King gave at the March on Washington: It might be somewhat difficult to understand because he is using a lot of metaphores.  You can skip around but make sure you listen to 12:30-15:00.

  • What is Dr. Kings dream?
  • Looking at the crowd do you think this event was considered to be important?

http://www.mlkonline.net/video-i-have-a-dream-speech.html  

 

Step 3:

Check out this site for a quick review of what historical fiction is.

http://www.mapsofworld.com/referrals/books/fiction-books/historical-fiction-books/historical-fiction-for-kids.html

 

Now as a group you are going to combine the information that you have learned to create your own work of historical fiction.  You will need to have at least 5 historical facts as a part of your story.  Make sure you include page at the end labled Work Cited and list the websites that you use below it.  It is important that we give credit to the people who provided us with the information that we used to create our stories.   

You will first need to decide where you want your story to take place and which events that you have learned about will your characters experince?  How will you incooperate the information?  Be creative and work together! Once you have come up with a general outline for your story you will each have a different task:

  1. Recorder: This group member will be in charge of typing up the story
  2. Researcher: This group member will be at the computer next to the recorder, checking on the facts that are being used within the story
  3. Keeper:  This group member keeps track of time as well as how the story is being spread out; that means making sure that there isn't a lot of information on one page and then almost no information on the next. 

  

Once you story is all typed out you can either create illustrations on the computer or print off the pages and do them by hand it is your choice! 

When your illustrations are finished we will talk about how you will bind and finish your book!

 

Step 4: 

We will share our stories with younger students in the school to help them learn more about the this important time in our history! 

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