February is African American History Month

NSLC and The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation created a toolkit on Service-Learning & Historic Preservation which provides resources for teachers and for historic preservation organizations interested in partnering to provide youth with an engaging learning experience where story and place connect through oral history and/or historic preservation. This resource includes first steps, benefits to students and historic preservation organizations, and examples of successful service-learning historic preservation projects.

http://www.servicelearning.org/instant_info/historic_preservation/

You might also want to take a look at the National Register of Historic Places: African American History Month. This website showcases historic properties as well as provides lesson plans for teaching with historic places.

http://www.nps.gov/history/nR/feature/afam/

:The North Star Service-Learning Project is a sustained, interdisciplinary, and inter-collegiate community partnership between Nazareth College and Monroe Community College in Rochester NY. Students have created a myriad of public history curriculum and educational materials, as well as panels for the Underground Railroad Museum. To find out more, see videos, or download course syllabi, visit:

http://naz.edu/dept/servicelearning/ugrr/index.cfm