Black history biography rubric fourth grade

Part of making a Black History Month Project meaningful is exposing students to people that they might not be familiar with. If you let 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade students choose who they want to research, you'll probably find that everyone wants to research Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, or Barack Obama.

Instead of simply letting students choose people they are already familiar with, collect a variety of biographies on different African Americans - or find some kid-friendly biographies online.

Do whatever works for your classroom, as long as you give students an opportunity to introduce themselves to different African Americans.

There are a lot of different ways you could do this with your students.

I would pull our a few books from my classroom library and then have my librarian help me collect enough child-friendly biographies for each student in my class. We would sit in a circle, and each student would get one of the books.

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