Heartland Has Vast Array of Black History Month Resources

February is Black History Month and Heartland would like to remind districts that we have online database resources to help teachers build interesting and rigorous lessons. Of the vast resources, here are some examples of what teachers can use:

• Books on black history, civil rights, autobiographies (current and historical), themes of tolerance or prejudice, character education, cultural studies and more
  
• Book guides and video interviews from TeachingBooks.net
• Teaching guides for books such as Child of Hope by Nikki Grimes and Barack Obama: Son of Promise from TeachingBooks.net
• Royalty free music clips of African music, African drum, hip-hop, blues, jazz and rap from Soundzabound.com
• Unique teacher-resources and AP resources in ProQuest Learning literature online database that includes literary criticism, historical documents and literary works
• Primary source materials and documents from World Book Encyclopedia and EBSCOhost databases
• Historical timelines.
• Audio recordings of famous African Americans (interviews, speeches, performances, etc.)
• Information and resources for reports and debates to foster critical thinking
• Videos online with DEstreaming

And, of course, with Com Cat federated searching, teachers and students can search all of the online databases at the same time. Also, with Com Cat's unique cababilities, students can search databases that they might not have thought about searching in the past which opens up all sorts of new possibilities and information sources for them!