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Black history month activities are a perfect way to showcase to all students accomplishments of black Americans.  

Students will enjoy learning cool facts, writing about African American inventors, and celebrating black women in history within your lesson plans.

February is an extra opportunity to honor important people who not only have made their mark in the world, but have many times also endured extra hardships to make those marks be known.

Your black history month lesson plans can include all the relevant facts, but also be a fun experience for students to use technology when sharing those ideas with their classmates!  Keep reading to find out how!

When is Black History Month?

The celebration of Black History Month began as “Negro History Week,” which was created in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson, a noted African American historian, scholar, educator, and publisher. Woodson chose that week specifically because it covered the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abr African-american biography books!