LESSON PLAN

School: Camden High School Day: Monday Date: 14/5/18 Period: 1 Class: 10R1

Unit: Rights & Freedoms (1945-Present)

Topic: American Civil Rights Movement

Aim: Provide insight for how the American Civil Rights Movement influenced the Australian Civil Rights
Movement.

The big picture [what question communicates the purpose of the lesson?
Outline the aims and methods of the US civil rights movement

Syllabus Outcomes:
HT5-3 – explains and analyses the motives and actions of past individuals and groups in the historical contexts
that shaped the modern world and Australia
HT5-8 – applies a range of relevant historical terms and concepts when communicating an understanding of the
past

General Capabilities: History Skills:

Ethical understanding Use historical terms and concepts in appropriate
Intercultural understanding contexts.
Literacy Interpret history through the actions, values, attitudes
Personal & social capabilities and motives of people in the context of the past.

Students learn to: Students learn about:

- Outline the aims and methods of the US Civil - The US Civil Rights Movement and its
Rights Movement influence on Australia
- Explain how the Freedom Rights in the US
inspired civil rights campaigners in Australia

Resources: Assessment:
Textbook: Maureen Anderson; Ian Keese; Anne Low; Formative assessment
Kate Harvey & Brian Hoepper (2014), Retroactive 2
Stage 5: The making of the modern world and
Australia. p.364-371
Textbook: Bruce Dennett; Bernie Howitt (2015)
Oxford Insight History Stage 5. pp.44-48

Blue eyes/brown eyes experiment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHxFuO2Nk-0

Computers for research

Timeline for printing & online access:
https://www.sitinmovement.org/history/america-
civil-rights-timeline.asp

Google Drive login:

Word doc access > smartcharts > basic timeline

Miss J Hayter

LESSON STAGES
Connect the Learning:
How will students connect to
what they already know?
Share New Information:
How can the teacher facilitate
students accessing new
information and developing an
understanding of it?
Demonstrate New
Understanding:
How will students apply their
understanding to new
contexts?
Review & Reflect:
How will students show an
understanding of the ‘big
picture’ of the lesson?
LESSON PLAN
TEACHER ACTIVITIES STUDENT ACTIVITIES
(5min) hand out stickers [miss Clark] Students to take a seat in normal seating.
(20min) watch “blue eyes/brown eyes” youtube Watching youtube clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHxFuO2Nk-0
(5min) Show slides with pictures of signage over
canteen and toilets with Stickers only & without Silent.
stickers only.
(25min) WITH stickers closest to windows and Moving to assigned seating.
WITHOUT stickers near the door for early leaving.
Create a timeline of the main events leading to the Either receiving laptops or getting out
Emancipation Declaration in the civil war in 1863- notebooks.
1954.
Get kids to highlight events in: 1863, 1868, 1870,
1896, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964,
1965, 1968
Hand out paper copies of timeline to students WITH
stickers must be completed into notebooks.
Students WITHOUT stickers can use laptops to view
timeline and create in word doc using SmartChart-
Basic Timeline. Upload to google classroom.
[students creating timeline] Creating timeline
(5min) debrief: Students interacting
- Do the class think that your actions were fair?
Why / Why not?
- What rights did you take away from those with
brown eyes?
- What special privileges were you giving those with
blue eyes?
- What evidence did you have to make the
statement about brown-eyed pupils being less
clever than blue-eyed pupils?
- Do the class think that prejudice is normally based
on evidence?
- Can the class think of any examples where
prejudice happens?
- What did this exercise tell the pupils about
prejudice?
- Why do the pupils think prejudice happens?
- If we can “create” prejudice this easily- can we
“destroy” it just as easily?
- What can we do about prejudice?
- What actions can we take as individuals, in our
day-to-day lives?
Miss J Hayter
 LESSON PLAN

Photos shown in powerpoint to illuminate the lesson using school service outlets

Miss J Hayter