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🗺️ 2nd Grade · Social StudiesD2.His.3.K-2Unit 5: Americans who made a difference

Civil rights heroes

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🎯 Objective: Students learn about Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks.

Lesson outline

  1. Read aloud.
  2. Discuss fairness.
  3. Write a dream.
  4. Exit: one hero and what they did.

Lesson 2 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

D2.His.3.K-2

C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards (NCSS) — typical US grade-level themes

🏁 Unit goals

  • Describe people who made a difference in the US
  • Use primary sources such as photos

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

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More lessons in “Americans who made a difference”

  1. Inventors
  2. Civil rights heroes
  3. Using photos as sources
  4. Make a difference project

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