Five lesson plans that were prepared for Black History Month can be used to teach purposeful, interesting, and reasonably balanced black history to students in grades 3-6. Objectives for preparing black studies units are to: (1) make reasonably balanced presentations through social studies, language arts, music, and other appropriate subject…

This document describes the development of a project called "Connections," at the Colorado School of Mines. "Connections" is an integrated series of active-learning courses and seminars that allow first-year engineering and science students to connect studies in engineering, physical science, social science, and humanities via…