This is a New Year and it is good to review the MA’AT to examine how we are doing living with ourselves and others. BEFORE YOU GET STARTED: Please check the materials that go with this lesson and print relevant materials. Also, check out the books and products...
In this lesson we will discuss and demonstrate the differences between producers and consumers. BEFORE YOU GET STARTED: Please check the materials that go with this lesson and print relevant materials. Also, check out the books and products used by the teachers for...
In this lesson we will identify, discuss, and discover the principles of Kwanzaa and how to apply them in our daily lives. BEFORE YOU GET STARTED: Please check the materials that go with this lesson and print relevant materials. Also, check out the books and products...
Learn about the real St. Nicholas, who was a Moor, where he was born and how he developed a sense of giving starting with giving everything away to the poor. BEFORE YOU GET STARTED: Please check the materials that go with this lesson and print relevant materials....
In this lesson we will identify, define and describe the first 3 principles of Kwanzaa and how we can practice them in our daily lives. BEFORE YOU GET STARTED: Please check the materials that go with this lesson and print relevant materials. Also, check out the books...
This lesson examines the historical pictures of Jesus from the earliest portraits to the ones most people recognize today. Students will explore their former thoughts and discuss their conclusions with the information received today. BEFORE YOU GET STARTED: Please...
During today’s lesson, we will read a Kwanzaa favorite, Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story by Angela Shelf Medearis. This book beautifully highlights each principle of Nguzo Saba and helps us to remember the power we hold when we work together. We will also...
In this lesson students will create their own workout plan that focuses on the biceps, triceps, pectorals and abdominal muscle groups. Students will also learn about repetitions and sets as they create a weekly workout schedule. BEFORE YOU GET STARTED: Please check...
It is Christmas time and have you ever wondered if Jesus was Black? This lesson will ask you to put on your thinking cap on and answer this question for yourself. BEFORE YOU GET STARTED: Please check the materials that go with this lesson and print relevant materials....
In this lesson we will discuss, describe and discover synonyms and antonyms of gratitude and the many ways in which we can demonstrate gratitude in our daily lives. BEFORE YOU GET STARTED: Please check the materials that go with this lesson and print relevant...
In today’s lesson, we will compare and contrast the experiences of African Americans and Native Americans (or Indigenous People) in the United States. Focusing on the loss of Native American historical lands and the numerous thriving Black towns destroyed by racial...
This is Native American History Month and we have learned about how some of The African Native Americans came to America and this lesson is about what Native Nations the Native American Africans, are a part of in North and South America. BEFORE YOU GET STARTED:...
We will look at the similarities in the life of trees and the life of families and how they continue to live on and on. We will discuss each one of our roles in that family tree and how important each role is. We will draw a tree using various art supplies to...
Learn how Africans came to the Americas. Learn how hundreds of Africans came with crops, goods and animals and taught the people they found in the land about math, religion and art. BEFORE YOU GET STARTED: Please check the materials that go with this lesson and print...
In this lesson we will describe, discuss, and demonstrate what Sankofa means to us and how we can use it in our everyday lives. We will allow our past to inform our present as we move forward into the future. BEFORE YOU GET STARTED: Please check the materials that...
This lesson will explore with the students, “What is an Ancestor?” Students will be asked what their definition of an ancestor is and then learn who are some of our ancestors. Students will also learn from another student, who has visited our ancestral home, what he...
It’s HBCU Homecoming Season! During this lesson, we will discuss the importance of going to college and explore what educational conditions lead to the creation of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in America. We will discuss the culture of HBCUs and the...
In this lesson we will describe and discuss both the positive and negative interactions between the different members of the traditional family and how they relate to one another based on the position they hold in the family. Mother, Father, Son and Daughter...
Learn about the last King Ja Ja of Opobo and how he started his kingdom. Now that you have learned about over 30 Kings and Queens of Africa, now it is your opportunity to pick the ones that you like the best and share with the class. BEFORE YOU GET STARTED: Please...
In this lesson we will utilise the left and right hemisphere of our brains to logically and creatively generate a vision statement that is founded on family values and connected to Universal oneness. BEFORE YOU GET STARTED: Please check the materials that go with this...
