A Black History Month Activity for Older Kids

I was looking around for some different activities for Black History Month this year, and I came across this post from Teacher Noire that includes lots of bulletin broad ideas and other activities from their Teachers Pay Teachers listings.

One that caught my eye was the idea of doing an Instagram post where the students research their chosen figure, draw a picture and then write something about it.

Her activity related to that is billed as a door decoration, but of course you can use it in other ways. It includes a poster with 35 influential people from Black history as well as blank templates students can use to fill out their own historic Instagram posts. (They also have a version with Canadian figures if that’s something you need.)

As you might imagine there are lots of variations on this idea. I also like this one from Nacho Average Classroom, which has full blank profiles so kids can draw and write their bio, three posts and make hastags for their person. This one includes nine or 10 different figures with provided informational videos and read alouds, but you could also have kids pick and research someone else on their own.

Coffee Classroom has a set of Instagram templates with even more blanks, and this set includes 30 Black history templates and 30 Women’s History Month templates, if you want to re-use the idea for other historical figures. Here the names are included and students can do their own research and draw the images that make sense for their person. (This one has a grid of 9 posts, but there’s not specific room for captions.)

And of course you could also just have kids draw pictures and write captions as if they were making Instagram posts without the fancy templates, but having the icons that look like an Instagram page is lots of fun, too.

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Sea turtles are a fun ocean creature that’s fun to learn about in summer, so let’s take a look at some learning activities related to sea turtles.

We love to start with the parts of an animal, and Homeschool Preschool has a parts of a sea turtle printable worksheet you can grad. There’s a cut and paste version and one where kids can write in the parts by hand.

Pair that with the sea turtle life cycle sequencing activity from The Keeper of the Memories, which has both a numbered version and one with the words first, next, then and last to get them thinking about the language used to tell stories in a sequence.

This video on sea turtles from All Things Animal TV will give you basic facts about sea turtles, and Growing Play has some turtle facts for kids as well as a printable maze, dot to dot and color by number activity sheet.

Real Life at Home has a sea turtle word search printable, and you can build a cute 3D turtle with this printable from The Artisan Life. Homeschool Preschool also has a cute pattern sequencing worksheet with turtles.

Homeschool of 1 has some really cute turtle activity sheets including a color by number, letter maze, finding the letter t, writing, tracing and counting activities.

There’s also a printable sea turtle activity pack from Hawaii Travel with Kids. This one includes turtles made from different shapes for kids to identify, parts of a turtle and life cycle, a word search, a page for doing a report on a specific species of turtle and a page for practicing writing the letter t. There’s also a mermaid puzzle. (This content is free for subscribers.)

Preschool Play and Learn also has a nice set of turtle themed worksheets, including a dot coloring page, a cut and color to learn how to spell turtle, practice writing and finding the letter t, an ocean animal I spy, counting to 10 and sorting colors of turtles.

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