Black History Month 2025

In celebration of Black History Month, the ThinkCERCA team is proud to share some of our favorite lessons that showcase the impactful contributions of Black leaders, innovators, and activists. These lessons provide educators and students with meaningful opportunities to explore key moments, influential figures, and lasting legacies in Black history. Join us as we honor the diverse stories and remarkable achievements that continue to shape our world.

Here are just a few lessons we are highlighting today:

Longer Works

✅ Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

Writing Lessons

✅ Grades 3-12: Juneteenth

✅ Grade 3-12: Muhammad Ali

✅ Grade 3: How has artist Tyler Gordon used painting to inspire others?

✅ Grade 4: What is the most important lesson we can learn from Lynda Blackmon Lowery’s story?

✅ Grade 7: Bayard Rustin

✅ Grade 7: Misty Copeland 

✅ Grade 9: Jackie Robinson: Civil Rights On The Playing Field

✅ Grade 10: What similarities and differences exist in how Toussaint Louverture's legacy as a revolutionary figure is represented across these primary and secondary sources?

✅ Grade 11: Fannie Lou Hamer's Dauntless Fight For Black Americans' Right To Vote

✅ Grade 12: How might Frederick Douglass's newspaper, The North Star, have fuelled the anti-slavery movement?

✅ Grade 12: How did twentieth-century icon Josephine Baker use her skills as a communicator to advance social and political causes?

✅ Grade 12: Chadwick Boseman

✅ Grade 12: Shirley Chisholm: Presidential Candidacy Announcement

Reading Practice

✅ Grades 3-5: This Is Simone: Read the Story of Simone Biles

✅ Grades 3-5: Let’s Celebrate Emancipation Day & Juneteenth

✅ Grades 3-5: Arts and Entertainment (excerpts from The Harlem Renaissance)

✅ Grades 6-8: James Baldwin

✅ Grades 9-10: Wilma Rudolph: The Potential for Greatness

✅ Grades 9-10: Timely Leader

✅ Grades 9-10: President Mandela

✅ Grade 10: Student Exemplar: The Black Family Dream

✅ Grade 11-12: Excerpt from Pride

✅ Grade 11-12: Langston Hughes’ Hidden Influence on MLK

✅ Grade 12: Phenomenal Woman