Kids in Birmingham 1963, a nonprofit group of people who came of age at the height of the civil rights era, invited Birmingham-area K-12 teachers of all different subject areas to design classroom lessons that incorporate our stories. In this short video, Chemistry and Physics teacher Jacqueline Edwards describes how she used our primary-source stories and a field trip to a local civil rights site -- Historic Bethel Baptist Church in North Birmingham -- to make her lesson on chemical bonding feel relevant for her students. She felt their interest in science rise as they learned local history that was new to them and saw relevance to their families' lives, past and present.
The project, including production of this video, is supported by the Alabama Humanities Alliance, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this video do not necessarily represent those of the Alabama Humanities Alliance or the National Endowment for the Humanities.
For more ideas on teaching civil rights history across the curriculum and for access to a trove of first-person stories related to civil rights history suitable for classrooms (text and/or video recordings), visit:
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