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-- Fun, Facts, and Trivia
February 2005 Issue
The Dirksen Center wants to help teachers teach better by giving them the opportunity to use technology to create, customize, and share online learning activities in their classrooms. The Center wants to help students learn more by bringing educational resources together in one place that provide new ways to learn about Congress interactively.
Teachers, if you're looking for a fun way to teach your students about the civil rights era from 1954-1968, have them take an interactive 3-tiered self-quiz which includes a vocabulary quiz and 2 multiple-choice quizzes. Students must pass each quiz to advance to the next level of questioning. Find Civil Rights Self-Quiz at: http://www.congressforkids.net/games/makinglaws/civilrights-vocabulary.htm.
** CIVIL RIGHTS: TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE **
1. Which president signed the first major civil rights act of this century?
A) John F. Kennedy
B) Lyndon B. Johnson -- He signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on July 2 that year.
C) Richard M. Nixon
A) Ronald Reagan
2. Which civil rights activist gained notoriety in the late nineteenth century for her editorials denouncing racial injustice?
A) Sojourner Truth
B) Zora Neale Hurston
C) Ida B. Wells -- Wells was the editor and part owner of the Memphis Free Speech. An illiterate freed slave, Sojourner Truth, traveled throughout the North preaching emancipation and women's' rights. Zora Neale Hurston, a trained anthropologist, also wrote fiction including two novels.
Answers to January's issue of Fun, Facts, and Trivia: http://www.webcommunicator.org/funfactstrivia0105ans.htm.
Do you have or know of an online activity you would like The Dirksen Congressional Center to feature on its new Web site for students -- Congress for Kids? The Center is currently seeking online activities that provide new ways to learn about Congress and the workings of the federal government interactively.
If you have questions or suggestions for online activities, contact Cindy Koeppel.
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