NBC News offers Black History Month video curriculum resource for schools

 NBC News has launched an expansive African-American Studies curriculum resource to be used by schools during February, Black History Month, and throughout the school year. The curriculum is comprised of more than 500 two-to-five minute video clips spanning hundreds of years of history and designed to be easily integrated into teachers' lesson plans. They are pooled from over 70 years of NBC News coverage and supplemented with early history mini-documentaries created in collaboration with educators, historians, textbook authors, and other experts. The subject matter includes the history of African-Americans from the slave trade through the modern civil rights movement; poignant features on and interviews with African-American leaders from politics, science, arts and literature, and business; and examinations of the African-American experience today including politics, health issues, education, the justice system, the economy, and the family. HotChalk helps teachers easily and quickly develop customized lesson plans and assignments, locate and integrate curriculum materials, and manage assignments and grading. "Our country's history is filled with many complex and emotional moments which are best recast and brought to life using the powerful language of imagery," said Steve Capus, President of NBC News. "We capture a piece of history every day -- now, teachers can easily use these iconic moments in the classroom to make learning relevant and engaging for their students." On March 1st, to coincide with Women's History Month, NBC News will release a collection of digital resources on Women's Studies that will include news stories and mini-documentaries on women leaders and historical figures, historic milestones, the women's movement, and issues effecting women today. The African-American Studies resource is available online at HotChalk (www.hotchalk.com/nbc.html), a free, easy-to-use web-based learning management system designed specifically for K-12 educators.
Thinkfinity.org provides online Black History resources for teachers
  Thinkfinity.org is offering a variety of free online resources to assist educators in developing lesson plans relating to Black History Month. Thinkfinity.org is the Verizon Foundation's free comprehensive program and online portal to more than 55,000 educational resources, including grade-specific, K-12 lesson plans, and other student interactives provided in partnership with 11 of the nation's leading educational organizations.
Among the resources in the Thinkfinity.org Black History Month section are:
  -- An Underground Railroad interactive online activity for students in
     grades 3-12. This resource, from National Geographic, allows students
     to take part in an interactive online journey through the eyes of a
     slave. The student begins his or her trek on the Underground Railroad,
     selecting different paths or answers that will help lead him or her to
     freedom, or back to the plantation. In addition, National Geographic's
     Xpeditions offers lesson plans to for use in conjunction with the
     interactive.
     http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/index.html           

— Teachers of Color