Education

Education

Designed for students in the fourth grade level, the Finding Freedom Summer exhibit focuses on the summer of 1964 and the Freedom Summer training that took place at Oxford, Ohio’s, Western College for Women. This deep learning project, rooted in art integration but versatile in its applications, challenges students to apply four active learning capacities.

The 12 arts-integrated lesson plans developed to accompany the exhibit focus on achieving a core set of educational outcomes through deep-learning practices. While the lesson plans included here can be seamlessly adapted for other grade levels, the project focuses on developing the intellectual and social capacities of fourth and fifth graders. Finding Freedom Summer offers timely reminders of our nation’s troubled history, emphasizes the social-emotional attributes of those who stand to make a difference, and challenges youth to find and understand the power of their voices.

Recognize

connections between Freedom Summer's people, places, and topics through visual communication and scaffolded reflection.

Create

a visual representation communicating new understanding of Freedom Summer, relating a big idea connecting the past, present, and personal experience.

Synthesize

historical content with personal experiences to increase empathy for others and advocate for human rights and social justice.

Reflect

on meaning through artwork, individually and collectively, privately and in public spaces educating others in the community.

Exhibit Lesson Plans

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Education Standards

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