The Great Migration ...

... a K-16 collaborative teaching project ...

... Kenyon College, Cleveland State University, Oberlin College,
The Cleveland Municipal School District, & The Avery Institute

The Great Migration Project has as one of its goals the creation and dissemination of curricular materials, either in the form of single lesson plans or more long-term curricular interventions.

Participants' experiences as teachers, and even the classes they teach, widely vary. As a result, the materials themselves are very different. For sake of organization, we have divided the lesson materials by grade level, -- elementary, middle-school, and high school.

The elementary school curricular packages very from "Gullah by the Numbers" to "African Architectural Influences."

See, for instance, lesson plans and curricular packages on the following topics, which will be expanded in number during the coming weeks and months. Please note that these are all in Adobe PDF format.

Afi, Linking the Past Alexander, Slave Revolts Avery, Free Black Entrepreneurs Bey, African Quilts Bolgar, Riches from Rice Boyd, Folk Games Bremer, Education Brooks, Gullah & School Brown, Literacy Brown, Reading Teamates Carr, Gullah Storytelling Chappell, Gullah Activities Coleman, Letters from the Underground Railroad Coleman, Realistic Fiction Colson, Gullah Activities Fair, Across Curriculum Flewelon, Creating Tradition Florin, Business & Basket Weaving Foster, African Epics Hamer, Oral History Marshall, Exploring Folk Traditions Meyers, Civil War Oliver, African American Folk Tales Prince, Gullah by the Numbers Rice, Family Traditions Shupp, Slavery Taylor, Gullah Foodways Vagi, Non Fiction Withers, "Off Time" of Slaves Williams, African American Architecure Williams, Literacy & Spelling

Bettencourt, Traditions (GR6; Social Studies) Blanton, African Slave Trade (GR8; US His) Brown, Stories, Storytelling, & Quilts (GR3-4; Reading) Byansi, African Cultural Transfer (GR9-12; US His) Cunnhingham, The Great Migration (GR6; Reading) Matthews, South Carolina (GR n/a; Math) Davis, Migration of African American Families (GR5; Social Studies) Dozier, African Religion (GR6; Social Studies) El-Amin, Art & Imagination (GR4-5; Language Arts) Fiebig, Slavery, in Africa ... (GR7; Language Arts) Finucan, The Great Migration (GR4; English) Gariola, Rice Plantations (GR9-12; Social Studies) Gianell, Quilting Connections (GR6; Social Studies) Hardwick, Great Migration (GR9-10; English) B Harris, Quilting (GR9-12; Math) S Harris, Gullah People (GR9-12; Social Studies) Heffernan, A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words (GR9; Writing) Hickey, Commonalities and Differences (GR10-12; Earth Sciences) Jarboe, Rice Plantations (GR9-10; Social Studies) Lacy, Funerals & Burial Rights (GR9; Math) Lloyd-Boozer, Great Migration McCary, Quilting Connections (GR4; Visual Arts) McCollum, Weddings (GR9; World History) Moore, African American History & Culture (GR5; Social Studies) Orr, Gullah (GR9; Phys. Ed) Owens, African American Identity (GR5; Music) Robinson, From South Carolina (GR3; English) McKinney, Gullah Culture Schneider, Sounds of Africa (GR11-12; Math/Calculus) Shimko, Storytelling (GR9-12; Reading) Toles, Capioera (GR6; Social Studies) Walsh, Storytelling (GR11-12; Vocational Education)

The Great Migration Project is funded by ...
The Cleveland Foundation, Dominion East Ohio Gas,The Ohio Humanities Council, Martha Holden Jennings Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation
Website hosted by Kenyon College, developed by participants in the program and Mark Tebeau; it is maintained by Mark Tebeau & Cleveland State University
© Great Migration Project, 2002