Name of Lesson Author: Christina Collins

Unit: Civil Rights

Title of Lesson: Then & Now
Grade: 3
Subject: Social Studies (math connection)

Integration of Learning Outcomes

The student will be able compare our past to our present by drawing a picture or
writing what certain situations from the past look like today.
The students will be able to recall information from the unit to teach the class 5 things
they have learned.

Standards
Standard - 5.2.3.A Identify personal rights and responsibilities.
Standard - 6.3.U.B Analyze how conflict and cooperation among groups and
organizations have impacted the growth and development of the U.S.
o Ethnicity and Race
Standard - CC.2.4.2.A.4- Represent and interpret data using line plots, picture graphs,
and bar graphs.
Themes:
Civic Ideals and Practices
o 10B) Identify examples of rights and responsibilities of citizens;
o J) Recognize and interpret how the "common good" can be strengthened
through various forms of citizen actions
Power, Authority, and Governance
o 6H) Recognize and give examples of the tensions between the wants and needs
of individuals and groups, and concepts such as fairness, equity and justice.
o D) Recognize how groups and organizations encourage unity and deal with
diversity to maintain order and security
Time, Continuity & Change
o A) Demonstrate an understanding that different people may describe the same
event or situation in diverse ways, citing reasons for the differences in views
Individuals, Groups, and Institutions
o E) Identify and describe examples of tension between an individuals beliefs
and government policies and laws

Anticipatory Set
The teacher will poll the students by saying Raise your hand if you think everyone
has equal rights today and Raise your hand if you do not think everyone has equal
rights today
The teacher will write the results on the board.
The students will then be instructed to create a bar graph based on the data of the poll.

Procedures
1. As a closure lesson to this unit plan the teacher will invite the students to the rug for a
final discussion on the civil rights unit.
2. The teacher will ask the class is following question:
 a. Is our country a better place today compared to the rights of individuals back
then? Why or why not?
3. After hearing student responses, the teacher will begin the Then & Now slideshow.
4. The teacher and students will have a discussion based on the question posted on the
last section of the slideshow (Did we overcome?)
5. The teacher will then ask the students to get into their summer groups (groups of 4)
and write 5 ways women, African Americans and people with disabilities are treated
different today than how they were. The students will be asked to recall the
information they learned through out the unit to help them come up with their answers.
They will have 20 minutes to complete this.
6. Once the students have finished collaborating they will become the teacher where they
will teach and present to the class the five ways they found that women, African
Americans and people with disabilities are treated differently today.
7. The students will then work independently on the Then & Now worksheet where they
will look at photos from the past and write or draw what that situation looks like today.

Differentiation
This lesson will benefit visual learners by viewing the Then & Now slideshow. The
slideshow shows multiple pictures of the women suffrage, African American, section
504 movements and how they overcame adversity.
The closure activity will benefit linguistic learners because they students will be able
to write a response to a prompt.
This lesson also focuses on the knowledge section of Blooms Taxonomy. In the lesson
students will be asked to recall the information they learned throughout the unit to help
them complete an activity.

Closure
Students will be given construction paper where they will trace their feet. Inside of the
feet the students will write a response to the prompt I can include everyone by.
Once completed, the teacher will collect the foot prompts, laminate them, and tape
them to the hallway leading to their classroom, creating a Pathway to change.

Formative / Summative Assessment

The Then & Now worksheet will be used as a form of formative assessment to check
for an understanding the gains our country had made regarding civil rights.
The teacher will formatively access the students while they become the teacher and
explain to the class 5 ways women, African Americans and people with disabilities are
treated differently today by recording sticky notes on the groups performance.

Materials / Equipment
Then & Now worksheets
Then & Now slideshow- (listen with sound on)
Construction paper for closure activity
Art supplies for closure activity (scissors, markers, crayons)

Technology
SMARTBoard
Then & Now slideshow (volume up)
 Then & Now
Directions: Look at the photographs below. Read what is happening in each photo. Draw or
write how things are now.

A protest for womens

rights

Water fountains segregated

based upon skin color.

A sit-in on April 5, 1977 for

the inclusion of people with
disabilities.