BHM Resources for Teachers

Teaching Tools and Lessons

Visit the Social Justice Books website for a collection of titles that center the Black experience, and to learn more about the movement, Black Lives Matter at School. Explore their Black Lives Matter at School Lesson Plans for great ideas that are easily adaptable to your teaching environment.

Go to Zinn Education Project's Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle website to read "Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth About Reconstruction", and to find relevant tools and lessons that will help you TEACH THE TRUTH!

Check out Edpuzzle's Black History Month collection! Focusing of social studies and poetry, the video lessons in the collection make learning fun and engaging! Edpuzzle's Teach Black History Month

Visit the CommonLit website for lots of Black History Month resources! Check out their text set on Black Heritage, their Black History Month featured favorites, and their Black Authors collection! Each reading passage comes with a lesson plan, an audio recording, and a language feature that makes the content accessible to all.

Explore IDTech's 16 Black History Month STEM Activities, for great ideas such as DIY activities, crafts, labs and virtual tours!

Visit ByteLearn to explore their resource, 13 Inspiring Black History Month Math Activities for Students, which has great ideas that are easily adaptable to your teaching environment!

Visit Math Buffalo for their collection, Mathematicians of the African Diaspora, which highlights the contributions of Africans and African Americans to the field of mathematics, including The Greatest Black Mathematicians and Black Women in Math Sciences. Feature one Black mathematician every day in February--and then carry on the tradition throughout the year.

Explore the Center for Racial Justice in Education's Black History Month Resource Guide for Educators and Families for a collection of lesson plans and reading lists, like NEA's Black History Month Lessons and Resources and Learning For Justice's Do's and Don't of Teaching Black History.

Teaching Students A New Black HistoryAn innovative education startup is offering culturally responsive learning to Black students across the country.

Teaching Black History in Culturally Responsive WaysBlack history is American history and should be taught throughout the year across the curriculum—not confined to a single month.