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Columbus Municipal School District: From Textbooks to Tech
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The CMSD #GoOpen journey began about a year and a half ago, and was prompted by the realization that our outdated textbooks were no longer adequate to meet the needs of each student and to ensure that every student in our district succeeds. CMSD realized that not only did these textbooks fail to meet the standards necessary for the curriculum, but also that there are more beneficial ways to invest funds when running on a tight budget.

Subject:
Education
Material Type:
Case Study
Provider:
Office of Educational Technology
Author:
Office of Educational Technology
Date Added:
09/23/2021
Fannie Lou Hamer and the Civil Rights Movement in Rural Mississippi
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This collection uses primary sources to explore Fannie Lou Hamer and the civil rights movement in rural Mississippi. Digital Public Library of America Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop their critical thinking skills and draw diverse material from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Each set includes an overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide. These sets were created and reviewed by the teachers on the DPLA's Education Advisory Committee.

Subject:
Gender and Sexuality Studies
History
Social Science
U.S. History
Material Type:
Primary Source
Provider:
Digital Public Library of America
Provider Set:
Primary Source Sets
Author:
Jamie Lathan
Date Added:
04/11/2016
Indian Mounds of Mississippi
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is a guide to these mounds, built between 100 B.C. and 1700 A.D. to bury important members of tribes and to serve as platforms for temples or residences of chiefs. This website highlights 11 mound sites and includes itineraries and three essays that provide historical context for these sites.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
National Park Service
Provider Set:
National Register of Historic Places
Date Added:
07/10/2003
Shopping Mall Exhibit Raises Awareness of Sea Level Rise
Read the Fine Print
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Residents along the U.S. Gulf Coast are familiar with the flooding hazards associated with storms, yet many are unaware of the risk of sea level rise. Shoppers at a local mall had a chance to explore the potential impacts of sea level rise on their communities.

Subject:
Applied Science
Environmental Science
Material Type:
Case Study
Provider:
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Provider Set:
U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit
Date Added:
08/29/2016
StoryWorks: Beautiful Agitators
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StoryWorks develops inclusive and transformative educational theater experiences that provide students with the opportunity to examine our country’s civil rights history. Through content consistent with school curriculum standards, the program engages students in experiential learning and inspires them to ask deeper questions about the historical underpinnings behind contemporary issues. The process creates pathways to civic engagement, creates lasting memories and instills a tangible sense of social belonging. This StoryWorks educational project is built around Beautiful Agitators, a theatrical play about Vera Mae Pigee, a hair stylist and business owner in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and one of the unsung heroes of the civil rights era. Using her beauty parlor as a hub for Delta-based organizing and resistance, Pigee operated her salon by day and then transformed it into a clandestine center for civil rights organization and education in the evenings. Known for her big hats and larger than life personality, Mrs. Pigee led the direct action that registered nearly 6,000 African Americans to vote in the region. Although Pigee was largely left out of the history books, along with many women of the movement, our play Beautiful Agitators and accompanying curriculum revives her legacy, highlighting her methods and tactics. Inspired by the innovative K-12 civil rights education standards developed by the Mississippi Civil Rights Commission. Our commitment is to expand upon the standards by further developing content related to social justice, power relations, environmental justice, diversity, equity, mutual respect, and civic engagement. Beautiful Agitators combines inquiry with higher-order thinking skills of analysis, evaluation and synthesis. Set in a beauty parlor owned and operated by a Black woman in the Mississippi Delta, our curriculum is based on our investigation into primary sources and their relationship to critical moments in the national movement. This foundation of historical context allows for students and educators to find contemporary parallels which further engage learners to reflect upon the legacy of the civil rights movement and the struggles that we, as citizens, continue to grapple with today.View the complete play Beautiful Agitators on the StoryWorks Theater site.Implementation1. Beautiful Agitators Performance Classroom watches a prerecorded, staged reading of the play Beautiful Agitators, which was created and performed by artists from the Mississippi Delta, home of Vera Mae Pigee.2. Lesson Plan Activities Following the eight-lesson plan structure, students will read aloud or act out scenes from the play. This participatory interaction with the text and the historical events promotes a high level of engagement from the students and encourages experiential learning. These activities directly correspond to scenes in the play and to specific content area standards. Teacher leads guided discussions and helps to explain the historical context and theme of each scene. Students/actors have the opportunity to share their experiences having portrayed these historical figures. 

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Literature
Performing Arts
Political Science
Social Science
U.S. History
Material Type:
Full Course
Date Added:
07/12/2021
StoryWorks: Beautiful Agitators, StoryWorks: Beautiful Agitators Curriculum, 1. Role of Women in the Civil Rights Movement
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Through the play Beautiful Agitators and accompanying curriculum, students will eplore the life of Vera Mae Pigee and the role of women in the civil rights movement.

Subject:
Performing Arts
Social Science
Material Type:
Unit of Study
Author:
Jennifer Welch
Rebecca Welch Weigel
Date Added:
07/13/2021
StoryWorks: Beautiful Agitators, StoryWorks: Beautiful Agitators Curriculum, 4. Youth Action and Leadership
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Through the play Beautiful Agitators and accompanying curriculum, students will eplore the life of Vera Mae Pigee and the role of the youth activism in the civil rights movement.

Subject:
Performing Arts
Social Science
Material Type:
Interactive
Unit of Study
Author:
Jennifer Welch
Rebecca Welch Weigel
Date Added:
07/12/2021
StoryWorks: Beautiful Agitators, StoryWorks: Beautiful Agitators Curriculum, 5. Mississippi Sovereignty Commission: Surveillance, Corruption and Violence
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Through the play Beautiful Agitators and accompanying curriculum, students will eplore the life of Vera Mae Pigee and the power and influence of the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission.

Subject:
Performing Arts
Social Science
Material Type:
Unit of Study
Author:
Jennifer Welch
Rebecca Welch Weigel
Date Added:
07/12/2021
StoryWorks: Beautiful Agitators, StoryWorks: Beautiful Agitators Curriculum, 6. Violent vs. Nonviolent Resistance
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Through the play Beautiful Agitators and accompanying curriculum, students will eplore the life of Vera Mae Pigee and the struggle to pursue nonviolent resistance.

Subject:
Performing Arts
Social Science
Material Type:
Unit of Study
Author:
Jennifer Welch
Rebecca Welch Weigel
Date Added:
07/12/2021
StoryWorks: Beautiful Agitators, StoryWorks: Beautiful Agitators Curriculum, 7. Coalition Building: From COFO to Freedom Summer
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Through the play Beautiful Agitators and accompanying curriculum, students will eplore the life of Vera Mae Pigee and the importance of coalition building to achieve civil rights.

Subject:
Performing Arts
Social Science
Material Type:
Unit of Study
Author:
Jennifer Welch
Rebecca Welch Weigel
Date Added:
07/12/2021
StoryWorks: Beautiful Agitators, StoryWorks: Beautiful Agitators Curriculum, 8. The Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Through the play Beautiful Agitators and accompanying curriculum, students will eplore the life of Vera Mae Pigee and reflect on the struggle and sacrifice that led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Subject:
Performing Arts
Social Science
Material Type:
Unit of Study
Author:
Jennifer Welch
Rebecca Welch Weigel
Date Added:
07/12/2021