Stevenson 5e Lesson Plan 2

University of West Alabama
5E Lesson Plan Template
Teacher: Dr. Lisa McMillin
Date: 09/29/19
Subject area/course/grade level: Alabama History/Social Science/4th Grade
Materials: Youtube, Internet Access, Microsoft Word, Television, Promethean Board
Standards (State and ISTE Standards for Students): AL-HY:14 Analyze the modern Civil Rights Movement
to determine the social, political, and economic impact on
Alabama.
ISTE-1-1A Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating
competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences.
1a:Students articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to achieve
them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes.
Objectives:4.14.1: Identify events that lead to the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act
in Alabama.
4.14.2: Locate on a map of Alabama significant sites related to the modern Civil Rights Movement.
Learning the basics of organizing the web site; Understand what makes ab effective web site; Organize,
refine, and present information about a historical time period in different forms, including images, sounds,
and text. Work collaboratively as a web design team in small groups.
Differentiation Strategies (How will the lesson address the various learning styles of the students and the
needs of those with special needs?): All learning styles will be stimulated during the lesson. For visual and
auditory learners we will include videos and stories. Also for hands on learners we will go on field trips to
place where they can interact with the galleries of the museums.
ENGAGEMENT:
Before the movie is watched, I will ask the students these opening questions listed below the students will
come up to the promethean board and answer the questions. Using technology, the students will watch a
movie “Our Friend Martin.” (This movie captures a time capsule of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s life) and
Selma, Lord, Selma. (A Disney movie about an 11 year old girl who is inspired by civil rights leaders to
participate in the Civil Rights Movement.) After the movies have been watched, I will ask the students
again these opening questions to spark discussion about the modern Civil Rights Movement in Alabama.
The students will also complete a worksheet that reviews a common subject in both movies.
1. What is The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute?

2. Who is Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and what impact did he have on The Civil Rights
Movement?
3. Who is Reverend Frederick L. Shuttlesworth?
4. Who is Reverend Abraham Woods?
5. Analyze, comprehend, and discuss what you know about the Civil Rights Movement and The
Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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6. What have you always wanted to know about the Civil Rights Movement and how it impacted
African Americans?
Assessment: The questions will assess the knowledge of what the children should have learned in the
movies.
EXPLORATION:
Students will split into 4 groups. The teacher will introduce the students to weebly. On weebly the students
will upload their findings and present the information they have found. This information should revolve
around the Civil Rights Era. Each group must choose a civil rights activist and at least one interesting facts
they find about the Civil Rights activist their contribution and present it to the class.
1. http://historyexplorer.si.edu/themes/theme/?key=14
2. http://civilrightsmuseum.org/
3. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/
4. http://spartacus-educational.com/USApantherB.htm
5. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civilrights/
Assessment: Students will use complete another worksheet to gather factual information and present it to
class. Teacher will recap all of information and determine if it is vital to overall subject.
EXPLANATION:
In this activity, the children will be journaling on iDiary for Kids is a free, fun platform for children to jot their
ideas and or concepts about information that they have gathered. This stage of the lesson is your part. You
will cover vocabulary, concepts, ideas – whatever is necessary – to help the students understand the

lesson. Include higher order thinking questions to help the students connect and comprehend the point of
the lesson.
Explain the listed concepts, vocabulary, and ideas to the students.
• Important figures of the modern Civil Rights Movement including, Martin Luther King, Jr., George C.
Wallace, Rosa Parks, Fred Shuttlesworth, John Lewis, Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, Hugo Black, and
Ralph David Abernathy.
• Describe the significance of D-DAY.
• Voting in the South/The Foot Soldiers
• Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham
• Freedom Riders bus bombing
• Dr.King House Bombing
• Selma-to-Montgomery March
• The Civil Rights Act of 1964
• The Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Plessy vs. Ferguson
• NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
• SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)
• ACMHR (Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights)
• “separate but equal”
• Brown vs Board of Education Supreme Court case of 1954
• The March on Washington
• Vocabulary
Assessment: Students will create complete another worksheet. Using this worksheet, students will assess
information learned and use knowledge to educate each other.

ELABORATION:
Watch this video before going on the field trip to Civil Rights Movement areas in town.
Learning History at Birmingham's Civil Rights Institute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDHyRkBjHbw
Field trip and bus tour to tour The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham’s 4th Avenue Business
District, Carver Theatre, Kelly Ingram Park, Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, and Bethel Baptist Church.
Scavenger Hunt at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.
The children can group themselves into 5 or 6 and play the game “Family Feud.” Each group will answer a
series of questions, using a buzzer, and this task will be to gain points about the field trip that they have
just went on.
Assessment: Students will use family feud to answer questions about what they have learned about the
lesson.
EVALUATION:
Group Rubric for projects that will be presented.
References:
Bybee, R.W. et al. (1989). Science and technology education for the elementary years: Frameworks
for curriculum and instruction. Washington, D.C.: The National Center for Improving Instruction.
Bybee, R. W. (1997). Achieving Scientific Literacy: From Purposes to Practices. Oxford: Heinemann.
National Research Council. (1999). Inquiry and the national science education standards: A guide for
teaching and learning. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
Polman, J.L. (2000). Designing project-based silence: Connecting learners through guided inquiry.
New York: Teachers College Press.
Rubricmaker.com
Educationworld.com

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University of West Alabama

5E Lesson Plan Template

Teacher: Dr. Lisa McMillin

Subject area/course/grade level: Alabama History/Social Science/4th Grade

Materials: Youtube, Internet Access, Microsoft Word, Television, Promethean Board

1. What is The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute?

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Learning History at Birmingham's Civil Rights Institute

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