DuSable Museum offers teachers the following lesson plans and worksheets for use in conjunction with a visit to the museum. We also offer suggested vocabulary lists for your students. Peruse our entire collection of lesson plans! Selections of lesson plans and resources include: African Women and the Origins of Mathematics, African Presence in the Americas Before Columbus, Women of the Civil War, The Economic Vestiges of Enslavement, Reparations and Bringing Visual Art into the Classroom.
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Introduction to the Illinois Amistad Curriculum
Common Core Standards
African Women and the Origins of Mathematics
The Pyramids of Giza: Marvel of Human Achievement
The Libraries of Mali
Maafa – Great Tragedy
Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable
Civil War: Active Partners in the Fight for Liberation and Freedom
Women of the Civil War: She Fights for Liberty and Freedom
The Rallying Cry: Battle Hymn of the Republic
The Economic Vestiges of Enslavement
Built on Bondage American Ivy League Schools and Slavery
Reparations
Harold Washington
Culture and Currents: Africanisms in America
Bringing Visual Art into the Classroom
Mobile Museum Activity Guide
Suggested Vocabulary
The following suggested vocabulary lists can be introduced to students before visiting the museum.
Pre-Kindergarten
- Africa
- Community
- Folktale
- Kente Cloth
- Kwanzaa
- Village
Primary Grades
- Artifact
- Aviator
- Authentic
- Achievement
- Biography
- Document
- Entrepreneur
- Founder
- Garments
- Legislator
- Masks
- Mayor
Middle School & Secondary School
- artifact
- aviation
- fraudulent
- emancipation
- legacy
- mechanization
- Primary resources
- Secondary resources
- authentic autobiography
- Reconstruction Africa
- segregation
- Jim Crow laws
- Civil Rights
- Bronzeville
- delta
- Exodus
- prosperity
- Underground Railroad
- research
- fraudulent
- Renaissance
- enslavement
- legislator
- migration
- testament
- sharecropper
