Black History MonthCertificate Project One project I do the month of February is celebrate African Americans. I ask the librarian to pull together all of our books on this topic. Each student chooses one person and does a mini research on the person. We then go to the computer lab and I have the students use Print Shop to create a certificate to honor the person. The only stipulation I have about who they choose is that I ask them NOT to choose MLK, Rosa Parks or other African Americans they already know a lot about. The idea is to find other people to celebrate; I usually use one of these folks as a model for the students to follow. I then give them a guide as to what belongs on the certificate. For example, it should have a border, a seal, readable font, signature line, graphic, etc. I change it up every year. Each student gets a chance to present their award to the class. When they are all done I have the class make a "scroll" from butcher paper and we post them in the hall. We have learned a lot over the past few years, such as the inventor of the Super Soaker was an African American and I even had one student make a certificate, honoring Flip Wilson for "making people laugh." It always gets compliments, and the kids enjoy the project immensely. |
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