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Teaching Martin Luther King, Jr. And Biographies with Teaching with Technology Tool

Teaching Civil Rights is an opportunity to understand how leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. affect current history. With the help of OTAN’s Teaching with Technology database, there are many cost-free resources, and lesson plans available for all program areas. New lesson plans are being created and uploaded for adult educators. For ideas, about Civil Rights biographies, consult the following resources:

A Civil Rights Leader Presentation - In this activity, students use the Internet to gather information and take notes for a presentation about a civil rights leader. Students work individually or in pairs to enter information and images on a Google Slideshow template file and make an oral presentation. All materials, a lesson plan and teacher tips are included in this activity.

American Rhetoric: "I Have a Dream" Speech - Students listen to the famous speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., discuss its meaning, and write their dreams for the future. All materials, links, how-to sequence, and teacher tips are a part of this resource.

Famous People Lessons: Martin Luther King, Jr. : The featured site offers in excess of 150 lessons/activities using biographies and profiles of famous people. For this activity, Martin Luther King, Jr., is featured. Each profile offers a transcript with a MP3 audio file for listening practice, and the following activities: a synonym match, a phrase match, a listening gap fill, a correct word choice, spelling, organizing the text, scrambled sentences, discussion, and writing. Reading level varies from Beg. High- Adv. ESL.

Snopes: Discovering the Truth Behind Urban Legends: Snopes is a fact-checking website. With this lesson plan, students can “check the facts” about current stories or different urban legends.

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