Help the Center for Community Engagement partner with schools to host a day of learning to recognize the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. By creating a video of lesson plans/activities help students learn about social justice, peace, leadership, and how they can make difference in their communities. Need some help thinking of ideas? Click here . All videos should be less than 15 minutes and emailed to community.engagement@uc.edu.
** All videos will be uploaded to YouTube***
Activities:
- Discuss hopes and dreams- look for inspiration in King’s famous speeches or quotes, ask the children what their dreams are. What inspires them? Talk about ways they can make the world a better place. What you like to be when you grow up, etc...
- Art projects- coloring pages, M is for Martin Luther King, ‘I Have a Dream Speech’ for children
- I Have A Dream/MLK Jr. Acrostic Poem- using all the letters in a word or name as the first letter of each line of the poem.
Lesson plan ideas:
- March on Washington(?)- the world’s largest political rally for human rights ever in the United States. An estimated 200,000-300,000 participants converged on the Mall in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28, 1963, to protest for jobs and freedom for African Americans. King delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. (The March on Washington is credited with helping pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964).
- Chicago Freedom Movement (1965)- formed to protest segregated housing, educational deficiencies, and employment and health disparities based on racism.
Quotes to use for inspiration:
- “I have a dream that my four little children will one day line in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
- Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
- “I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
- “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
