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Civil Rights in a Northern City: Philadelphia. Classroom Resources
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These lesson plans and tips and tricks were created by
interns Nick Nguyen, Lou Parisi, and Matthew Schade as a
part of their work in the “Cultural Community
Fieldwork Initiative.” For the Fall 2011 semester, as
part of its leadership in the National History Day Philly
collaborative, the National Archives at Philadelphia
partnered with Dr. Christine Woyshner and the
undergraduate Secondary Social Studies Teacher
Certification program in the Education Department at
Temple University. This pilot collaborative project
required Temple secondary education students to
undertake fieldwork beyond the traditional classroom, in a
library, museum, archives or other history-related
institution in the region. Students received course credit
for their cultural fieldwork. The goals of the collaborative
project were to place Temple students with cultural
institutions in order to work with the latter‘s collections to
make them more easily accessible to National History Day
Philly students and teachers. A second goal is to teach
the pre-service teachers about National History Day, a
national project-based education program dedicated and proven to help students increase their historical research
and critical thinking skills.
Girard College Desegregation Lesson Plan
Students will apply knowledge of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision and what
they have learned of the NAACP in order to analyze the desegregation of Girard College
in Philadelphia and its fifteen-year struggle towards removing racial barriers even after
segregation was deemed illegal and unconstitutional.
Columbia Avenue Riots Lesson Plan
Students will compare an oral history interview regarding the conditions of North
Philadelphia at the time of the riot with the official F.B.I. report on the Columbia
Avenue Riots. Through this activity, students will gain an understanding of the
importance of perspective taking in historical thinking.
Tips and Tricks for using primary sources and this site
Here are tips and tricks for finding and utilizing the primary sources found on this site.
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