Black Lives Matter Curriculum Fair Resources

LESSONS

We share here links to the lessons shared during the mini-workshops and table talks held during the curriculum fair as well as the recommended lessons in the binders.

ALL AGES

• The Black Joy Experience Resource Guide by Jonathan Lykes and Fresco Steez. Listen to songs. 

EARLY CHILDHOOD AND ELEMENTARY

• WORKSHOP LESSONS

  • Introducing the Black Lives Matter 13 Guiding Principles in Early Childhood Education.

    • Suggested Books for the 13 Principles

  • Lesson for early childhood classrooms about representation and activism using the book Milo's Museum.

  • Representation in historical fiction.

  • Art and community activism using children’s literature such as A is for Activist, She Stood for Freedom, and more.

• LESSONS IN BINDER

  • Lesson based on the book Child of the Civil Rights Movement

  • Lesson based on the book One by Kathryn Otoshi

  • What is Community?

  • Introduction of Transgender and Nonbinary Identities with I Am Jazz

  • Understanding My Family’s History

  • Lesson based on the book Mumbet’s Declaration of Independence

MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL

• WORKSHOP LESSONS

  • Black Muslims in the United States.

  • Introducing the Black Lives Matter 13 Guiding Principles in middle and high school.

  • Introducing Key Postsecondary Metrics in High School Curricular to Better Address Social Justice in African American and Latinx Communities.

  • Social Justice Printmaking Workshop.

  • Using African Rock Art Image Analysis to Learn about Science and Indigenous Black African Cultures.

  • Congo, Coltan, and Cell Phones: A People’s History.

  • Tamir Rice Legacy Still Lives On

• LESSONS IN BINDER

  • Resistance 101: A Lesson on Social Justice Activists and Strategies

  • #LastWords

  • ‘If There Is No Struggle…’: Teaching a People’s History of the Abolition Movement

ORGANIZATIONS

Informational tables at the curriculum fair:

• D.C. Historical Society

• Dignity in Schools

• Center for Inspired Teaching

• For Humanity: Culture, Community and Maroonage

• Racial Justice NOW! DMV

• Shout Mouse Press

• Social Justice Printmaking Workshop

BOOKS

Books available for educators to take back to their classrooms:

EARLY CHILDHOOD-ELEMENTARY

• Milo’s Museum by Zetta Elliott

• Child of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula Young Shelton, illustrated by Raul Colon

• Mumbet’s Declaration of Independence by Gretchen Woelfle

• Farmer Will Allen & the Growing Table by Jacqueline Briggs Martin, Eric Larkin

• Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford

• Black All Around by Patricia Hubbell and Don Tate

• Tan to Tamarind: Poems about the Color Brown by Malathi Iyengar

• Carter Reads the Newspaper by Deborah Hopkinson

• Mama Africa!: How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song by Kathryn Erskine, Charly Palmer

• Ruth and the Green Book by Calvin A. Ramsey

• The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, & Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, R Gregory Christie

• Africa is Not a Country by Margy Burns Knight, Mark Melnicove

• This is the Rope, A Story of the Great Migration by Jaqueline Woodson

• The Day You Begin / El día en que descubres quién eres by Jacqueline Woodson and Rafael López

• Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins by Carole Boston Weatherford, Jerome Lagarrigue Lagarrigue (Illustrator)

• Ellen's Broom by Kelly Starling Lyons

• Sweet Smell of Roses by by Angela Johnson

• Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule by Harriette Gillem Robinet

MIDDLE-HIGH SCHOOL

• Teaching for Black Lives edited By Dyan Watson, Jesse Hagopian, Wayne Au

• The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon

• When They Call You a Terrorist, A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele

• Rhythm and Resistance: Teaching Poetry for Social Justice edited by Linda Christensen and Dyan Watson

• Not Just a Game: Power, Politics, and American Sports (film) by Dave Zirin

• Voice of Freedom Fannie Lou Hamer by Carole Boston Weatherford

• Betty Before X by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renee Watson

• The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World by John Carlos, Dave Zirin

• All American Boys: A Novel by Jason Reynolds

• As Brave As You by Jason Reynolds

• March Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior to Little Rock Nine by Melba Pattillo Beals

PUBLISHERS

• Candlewick Press

• The Culture C.O.-O.P

• Farrar Straus Giroux

• Haymarket Books

• Lee & Low Books

• Lerner Publishing Group

• Macmillan Publishing Group

• Nancy Paulsen Books

• Peachtree Pub Limited

• Penguin Random House

• Penguin Young Readers Group

• Simon & Schuster