Cycle 3 week 20 history sentence about the segregation of public schools is a little challenging for young students. Here is a simple craft that uses normal household materials that helps explain this concept.
Materials
- Construction paper
- Crayons
- Pictures of children (you can hand sketch them or if you purchase my history set they are included in the pintables section)
Step 1: Make the Schools
- Cut the construction paper into little schools by cutting diagonal lines on the top of each. You will need 3 of these.
- Write the words “Colored School” “White School” and “School” on each one.
Step 2: Make the Paper Children
- Have your child cut out the child picture you sketched or printed.
- Color each child a different skin tone. Talk about how skin tones are caused by differing amounts of melanin in the skin.
Step 3: Act Out the History Sentence
- Segregate (separate) the children into the “Colored School” and ” White School”
- Talk about before 1954, children of different colors had to go to different schools. Then Brown vs. Board of Education made segregation unconstitutional (not constitutional).
- Tear up the “Colored School” and “White School” papers, replace with a new paper that says “School” and have all the paper children attend.