Format

For clarity and ease of use, we have developed a lesson plan format for all of our teacher created lessons.

Learning Module Themes

UNESCO’s Transatlantic Slave Trade Education Project program of study is modular in structure. Each module, or theme, represents an aspect of the TST that is necessary for its full multidisciplinary examination. While these themes are organized in a fashion that suggests some degree of chronology, no rigidity is necessary for effective delivery.  The eight themes cover the period in African History before the TST to the rise of post slavery African Diaspora communities throughout the Atlantic World.

Teacher Created Lesson Plans

The lesson plans have been created by teachers who attended our teacher training workshops as a resource to educators. Please review the lesson plans yourself for age and content appropriateness. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns please contact us.

All Lesson Plans
High School (9 - 12)
Middle School (6 - 8)
Elementary School (3 - 5)
Primary School (K-2)
English
Diversity Awareness
Science
Geography

UNESCO-developed TST Resources: Breaking the Silence

Slave Voices: The Sounds of Freedom
Rejecting Slavery, Pursuing Freedom: The Slaves Write Back

Slave Voyages
The Transatlantic slave Trade in Enslaved Africans.

Slave Visions
Still being evaluated by the Task Force members.

The Slave Ship Fredensborg

Other Related TST Lesson Plans

The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Demographic Simulation
From Northeastern University's Annenberg/CPB Project "Migration in World History."

The Atlantic Slave Trade, Grades 7 – 12 by Jeremy Ball.
Reproducible. Available from The National Center for History in the Schools, UCLA. $16.95

Center for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence – SouthEast
Coastal Legacy Resources:
Indigo Dyeing, Sweetgrass Basket Making, Rice Impoundments, Gullah/Geechee Video Series

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Freedom, A History and Citizenship KS3 resource to investigate the Transatlantic Slave Trade
This resource contains a 66-page booklet including teachers’ notes and activity sheets for students and 29 object image cards.

The Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society, Key West: (see lesson plans under education)

Priscilla's Homecoming
http://www.yale.edu/glc/priscilla/
http://www.charlestonmag.com/pop_archive1.html
http://www.statehouse-sl.org/pris-homecom-may30.html
http://www.africanaheritage.com/Priscillas_Homecoming.asp
http://www.danacoleman.net/priscilla.html

Schomburg Center For Research in Black Culture (TST Lesson Plans)

When Rice Was King (Lesson Plan from NPS) 

Ama, The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Slavery Connects the North and South (The Choices Program)

Martha Ann's Quilt for Queen Victoria, written by Kyra E. Hicks, grades 2-6