Innovative lessons to engage your students in social studies while strengthening their visual, literacy, and analytical thinking skills. Read more...
 Are you looking for new ways to engage your students in social studies content while strengthening their visual, literacy, and analytical thinking skills? Learning about the lives of the late 20th century working class people of Davis Bottom will give your students the opportunity to explore the meaning of neighborhood and the definition of family, the use and abuse of power, and stereotypes about the working poor. Read more... |
 Learning about one of the largest events for civil rights in the history of Kentucky, held on July 4, 1867, in Lexington, Kentucky, will allow your students to understand the situation of newly freed African Americans after the Civil War and the beginnings of the long struggle for civil rights. The link to Davis Bottom? William Willard Davis, the man responsible for establishing Davis Bottom as an integrated community was among the speakers that day. Read more... |