Black History Month PowerPoint Presentations

This resource includes an English and Spanish version of the Black History Month PowerPoint Presentation. These are perfect for your bilingual or dual-language classrooms and schools! This presentation aims to explain in a simple, reflective, and child-friendly manner the true meaning of BHM to children. Each slide is designed for students to understand and relate history to their reality and experiences. Engage your students in the history of BHM through these slides; they will have the opportunity to clarify and reflect on everything this implies. Help them understand why it is important to preserve and honor this date.

The objective of this presentation is to inspire children to follow the example provided by each of the figures of BHM, understanding why courage, resilience, and leadership are essential in life to achieve their dreams.

Children will learn to value and respect not only their own culture but also that of others. They will discover the reasons behind this event and its purpose.

The two resources I am including in this bundle are sold separately. Below is the list of what you will receive. You can click on each link to read a detailed description of each product.

This resource includes:

• Slide 1: What is Black History Month? (English and Spanish Version)
• Slide 2: How Black History Month Started and Grew (English and Spanish Version)
• Slide 3: Carter G. Woodson (English and Spanish Version)
• Slide 4: Notable Figures Part I (English and Spanish Version)
• Slide 5: Notable Figures Part II (English and Spanish Version)
• Slide 6: Civil Rights Movements (English and Spanish Version)
• Slide 7: African-American Culture (English and Spanish Version)
• Slide 8: Most Famous African-American Traditions (English and Spanish Version)
• Slide 9: Diversity and Unity (English and Spanish Version)
• Slide 10: Celebrate Black History Month (English and Spanish Version)
• Slide 11: Black History Month Reflections (English and Spanish Version)
• Slide 12: Key Values of Black History Month Figures (English and Spanish Version
• Slide 13: We have learned about - Black History Month (English and Spanish Version)

Formats:

• Powerpoint
• PDF
• Google Slides
• Keynote
• JPG images

Happy Black History Month, and Enjoy teaching your kids beyond the facts!

These editable daily agenda templates will keep your class organized with a Black History Month theme.  You can project these templates using a projector a smartboard as a way to focus your class while celebrating Black History Month. 

This set of templates includes 20 different templates in the theme of Black History Month.  The slides include an image of an important person in Black history along with an inspirational quote. Each slide has an editable date section, as well as three different sections for whatever information you need to share - agenda, announcements, homework, objectives.  The text on the slides is completely editable so you can change the content as well as the font, size and color of your text.  You can use the slides as many times as you wish by simply duplicating the slide.  You can also use the slides as backgrounds for your meetings if you are teaching remotely.

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This resource will have students critically explore the period of the Jim Crow era, with a focus on the segregation of schools. This highly engaging, interactive, primary based Slide Presentation will have students analyze and understand the implications of the Jim Crow laws, along with the monumental Supreme Court decisions of 'Plessy v. Ferguson', and 'Brown V. Board of Education'.

The teacher will have a choice of three supplementary activities; 

• The 1st Optional Activity will have students analyze four political cartoons. Students will identify whether the author was FOR or AGAINST the Jim Crow Laws, & describe supportive details from the cartoon on their POLITICAL CARTOON HANDOUT.

• The 2nd Optional Activity will have students critically read a primary source article titled ‘A TALE OF TWO SCHOOLS’, and respond to text dependent questions in their **‘**TALE OF TWO SCHOOLS QUESTIONS HANDOUT. The teacher can do a read-aloud, OR students can read independently. Class discussion is encouraged.

• The 3rd Optional Activity will have students analyze a film titled ‘FREEDOM SONG’. Students will apply their knowledge from their guided notes, and respond to open-ended questions in their FREEDOM SONG HANDOUT.

Materials Include:

• Teacher Reference Guide
• 38 Slide Slide Presentation & Guided Notes Handout (Answer Key Included)
• A Tale of Two Schools' Supplementary Reading Comprehension Activity
• 'Freedom Song' Movie Handout

*All THREE lessons (Era of Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan, & Jim Crow) is available in the BUNDLE for a discounted %.

This presentation aims to explain in a simple, reflective, and child-friendly manner the true meaning of Black History Month to children. Each slide is designed for students to understand and relate history to their reality and experiences. Engage your students in the history of BHM through these slides; they will have the opportunity to clarify and reflect on everything this implies. Help them understand why it is important to preserve and honor this date.

This presentation aims to inspire children to follow the example provided by each of the figures of BHM, understanding why courage, resilience, and leadership are essential in life to achieve their dreams.

Children will learn to value and respect not only their culture but also others. They will discover the reasons behind this event and its purpose.

This resource includes:

• Slide 1: What is Black History Month?
• Slide 2: How Black History Month Started and Grew
• Slide 3: Carter G. Woodson
• Slide 4: Notable Figures Part I
• Slide 5: Notable Figures Part II
• Slide 6: Civil Rights Movements
• Slide 7: African-American Culture
• Slide 8: Most Famous African-American Traditions
• Slide 9: Diversity and Unity
• Slide 10: Celebrate Black History Month
• Slide 11: Key Values of Black History Month Figures
• Slide 12: Black History Month Reflections
• Slide 13: We have learned about - Black History Month

Formats:

• Powerpoint
• PDF
• Google Slides
• Keynote
• JPG images

Happy Black History Month, and Enjoy teaching your kids beyond the facts!

This unit bundle is composed of four highly engaging, primary based, interactive Slide Presentations, and activities-- designed to have students critically explore the period of Reconstruction/Jim Crow.

LESSON ONE: Reconstruction Era [Intro]

Includes:

• 45 Slide Presentation & Guided Notes Handout
• POV Freedmen Scenario Activity

LESSON ONE will have students examine;

• the different ways in which newly freed slaves expressed their emancipation
• the POV of a Freedmen (POV Activity). Students will respond and debate four questions central to this time period from a Freedman's perspective;

1. Now that the Civil War is over, who should own and control the plantations?
2. What do you propose should happen to the ex-Confederate leaders?
3. Who should be allowed to vote in the new South? Everyone? Only formerly enslaved people? Only those who were loyal to the United States during the war? Women?
4. How will African Americans be protected from the revenge of the defeated soldiers and from the plantation owners?
5. What conditions should be put on the Southern states before they are allowed to return to the Union?

LESSON TWO: The Pursuit to Vote

Includes:

• 48 Slide Presentation & Guided Notes Handout
• Black Codes Scenarios Matching Game
• Louisiana State Literacy Test

LESSON TWO will have students examine;

• the Black Codes (Matching Game included)
• Three Reconstruction Plans
• the POV of a Freedmen in regards to the different obstacles they faced in their pursuit to vote (Inequality of land, the Grandfather Clause, Literacy Test, Poll Tax, Intimidation & Violence)

LESSON THREE: The Ku Klux Klan (Comparing the Past to Today)

Includes:

• 34 Slide Presentation & Guided Notes Handout
• Venn Diagram- 'Comparing White Supremacy of the Past with Today'
• Primary Source Reading- 'C.P. Ellis Why I Quit the Klan'

LESSON THREE will have students examine;

• the underlying roots from which the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) came to exist in America
• the organization's primary tactics of using intimidation & fear in fighting against social equality, and why many poor whites were recruited to join the KKK organization.
• & compare/contrast the circumstances & social conditions of two former white supremacist leaders (one who lived during the era of Jim Crow, and the other of present day).

LESSON FOUR: Jim Crow Laws

Includes:

• 38 Slide Slide Presentation & Guided Notes Handout
• A Tale of Two Schools' Supplementary Reading Comprehension Activity
• 'Freedom Song' Movie Handout

LESSON FOUR will have students examine;

• the period of the Jim Crow era, with a focus on the segregation of schools.
• the implications of monumental Supreme Court decisions of 'Plessy v. Ferguson', and 'Brown V. Board of Education'.

Choice of three supplementary activities; 

• The 1st Optional Activity will have students analyze four political cartoons. Students will identify whether the author was FOR or AGAINST the Jim Crow Laws, & describe supportive details from the cartoon on their POLITICAL CARTOON HANDOUT.

• The 2nd Optional Activity will have students critically read a primary source article titled ‘A TALE OF TWO SCHOOLS’, and respond to text dependent questions in their ‘TALE OF TWO SCHOOLS QUESTIONS HANDOUT. The teacher can do a read-aloud, OR students can read independently. Class discussion is encouraged.

• The 3rd Optional Activity will have students analyze a film titled ‘FREEDOM SONG’. Students will apply their knowledge from their guided notes, and respond to open-ended questions in their FREEDOM SONG HANDOUT.

Esta presentación busca explicar de forma sencilla, reflexiva y adaptada a la edad de los niños el verdadero significado del Mes de la Historia Negra. Cada diapositiva está diseñada para que los estudiantes comprendan y relacionen la historia con su realidad y sus experiencias. Involucra a tus estudiantes en mes de la historia negra a través de estas diapositivas; los niños tendrán la oportunidad de aclarar y reflexionar sobre todo lo que esto implica. Ayúdales a comprender por qué es importante preservar y honrar esta fecha.

El objetivo de esta presentación es inspirar a los niños a seguir el ejemplo proporcionado por cada una de las figuras del de mes de la historia negra comprendiendo por qué la valentía, la resiliencia y el liderazgo, entre otros valores, son esenciales en la vida para alcanzar sus sueños.

Los niños aprenderán a valorar y respetar no solo su propia cultura, sino también la de los demás. Descubrirán las razones por las que es importante hablar de este acontecimiento y su finalidad.

Este recurso incluye:

• Diapositiva 1: ¿Qué es el Mes de la Historia Negra?
• Diapositiva 2: Cómo Inició el Mes de la Historia Negra y Cómo Creció
• Diapositiva 3: Carter G. Woodson
• Diapositiva 4: Figuras Notables Parte I
• Diapositiva 5: Figuras Notables Parte II
• Diapositiva 6: Movimientos de Derechos Civiles
• Diapositiva 7: Cultura Afroamericana
• Diapositiva 8: Tradiciones Afroamericanas más Famosas
• Diapositiva 9: Diversidad y Unidad
• Diapositiva 10: Celebra el Mes de la Historia Negra
• Diapositiva 11: Mes de la Historia Negra Reflexiones
• Diapositiva 12: Valores Clave de las figuras del Mes de la Historia Negra
• Diapositiva 13: Hemos aprendido sobre ... Mes de la Historia Negra

Formatos:

• Powerpoint
• PDF
• Google Slides
• Keynote
• JPG images

¡Feliz Mes de la Historia Negra y Disfruta enseñando a tus niños más allá de los hechos!