The online resources featured below were curated by the Dr. Carter G. Woodson Collaborative in order to support the approved edits to the SOL curriculum framework made by the Governor’s Commission on African American History Education. The SOL standard and the approved edits appear in the first two columns of the spreadsheet followed by correlating links and a contextual overview of each resource. The final column identifies each link as open educational resources (OER) vs. copyrighted materials that cannot be edited. As there are few resources that are entirely free of cultural bias, we suggest that you refer to the Collaborative’s Support and Guidance in Selecting and Enacting Resources document in order to consider how these materials can best be utilized.  

The online resources featured below were curated by the Dr. Carter G. Woodson Collaborative in order to support the approved edits to the SOL curriculum framework made by the Governor’s Commission on African American History Education. The SOL standard and the approved edits appear in the first two columns of the spreadsheet followed by correlating links and a contextual overview of each resource. The final column identifies each link as open educational resources (OER) vs. copyrighted materials that cannot be edited. As there are few resources that are entirely free of cultural bias, we suggest that you refer to the Collaborative’s Support and Guidance in Selecting and Enacting Resources document in order to consider how these materials can best be utilized. 

The online resources featured below were curated by the Dr. Carter G. Woodson Collaborative in order to support the approved edits to the SOL curriculum framework made by the Governor’s Commission on African American History Education. The SOL standard and the approved edits appear in the first two columns of the spreadsheet followed by correlating links and a contextual overview of each resource. The final column identifies each link as open educational resources (OER) vs. copyrighted materials that cannot be edited. As there are few resources that are entirely free of cultural bias, we suggest that you refer to the Collaborative’s Support and Guidance in Selecting and Enacting Resources document in order to consider how these materials can best be utilized.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is the only federal holiday designated as a national day of service to encourage all Americans to volunteer to improve their communities. In this learning experience students will learn more about Martin Luther King Jr. and how he marched for causes he believed in. As a result of this learning experience students will choose their own important cause to walk or advocate for in order to honor and celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and legacy of advocacy and leadership.

During this learning experience students will analyze and discuss a variety of sources related to Juneteenth and Independence Day. They will compare and contrast the two holidays and grapple with the question, “How do different people and groups celebrate freedom and independence in the United States?”

This learning tool was developed and designed to facilitate teacher/student and student/student discussion and recognition of significant events, holidays and celebrations within their lives, families and communities and those of their peers.

This is an introductory lesson to teaching the beginning stages of sentence structure. The teacher will use Picture sorts according to the grammatical function in a sentence. (nouns and verbs)
This activity was created for grade K to coincide with teaching sentence structure

The following lessons are introductory/review lessons for teaching students to distinguish concepts of print: words, and sentences from pictures. These lessons help a student’s oral knowledge by repeating sentences and phrases as well as counting/tapping words in sentences. The teacher will use Picture sorts according to the grammatical function in a sentence. (nouns and verbs)
This activity was created for grade K to coincide with teaching sentence structure

The following lessons are introductory/review lessons for teaching students to distinguish concepts of print: words, and sentences from pictures. These lessons help a student’s oral knowledge by repeating sentences and phrases as well as counting/tapping words in sentences. The teacher will use Picture sorts according to the grammatical function in a sentence. (nouns and verbs)
This activity was created for grade K to coincide with teaching sentence structure

The following lessons are another two weeks' worth of teaching students to distinguish concepts of print, words, and sentences from pictures. It should be paired with Sentence Knowledge weeks 1, 2, 3, and 4, but can be done alone. These lessons help a student's oral knowledge by repeating sentences and phrases as well as counting/tapping words in sentences. The teacher will use picture sorts according to the grammatical function in a sentence (nouns and verbs). This activity was created for grade K to coincide with teaching sentence structure

The following lesson is an introductory/review lesson for teaching students to blend words at the Syllable level. This activity is great for early emergent learners. As students begin to master the phonological process and their rhyme awareness increases, they are ready to begin working with words at the syllable level (foot/ /ball/). This lesson helps students identify larger units of sounds.

This learning experience explores one of the tenets and demonstrations of citizenship by exploring the legacy of voting in the United States, including who was allowed to vote, and who was not, as well as actions for students to take when they recognize unfairness.

During this learning experience, or series of learning experiences, students will explore the definition of a contribution, learn more about the contribution(s) of a diverse set of Virginians and ‘curate’ a student gallery that shows their contributions in their community now, and in the future.