This year I made 2 poster boards to set out for the month of February. The individuals they focused on were Alice Ball and Charles Henry Turner.

 

I flipped through Vashti Harrison's Little Legends series for inspiration. 

Alice Ball is most known for creating a treatment for leprosy before antibiotics were invented. 

This treatment became known as the "Ball Method". It used oil extracted from a chaulmoogra tree seed and injected into a sick person.

The activity aspect of this poster board required kids to find a leaf from our outside garden to glue to the trees.

Charles Henry Turner is known for his study of insect behavior.

For his poster board, we tried our hand at drawing bumble bees.

Didn't manage to get any pictures of the my book displays or better snapshots of my tables.

These were both free-handed so no template to share but take the ideas!

For past BHM ideas, click the links below . . . 

28 Days of Black History Printable Booklets

Black History Month YA book display

 One of the crafts we set out for Black History Month was this 28 Days of Black History booklet. It was loosely inspired by Tanya G Marshall's resources to go along with 28 Days: Moments In Black History That Changed the World by Charles R. Smith Jr. 

This is mainly biographical but does include one page for the Tuskegee Airmen. 

I wanted to have an assortment of figures and pulled from different books we have in the library about prominent African American figures from history and contemporary. 

 

Here's a list of who is included:

• Jesse Owens
• Harriet Tubman
• Bessie Coleman
• Barrack Obama
• Shirley Chisholm
• Madam CJ Walker
• Muhammad Ali
• Simone Biles
• Rosa Parks
• Jason Reynolds
• Michael Jordan
• Katherine Johnson
• Thurgood Marshall
• Tuskegee Airmen
• Angela Davis
• Mae Jemison
• Martin Luther King Jr. 
• Misty Copeland
• John Lewis
• Leah Chase (this is the woman who inspired Disney's Princess and the Frog)
  
• Frederick Douglass
• Ruby Bridges
• Charles Henry Turner
• Serena Williams
• George Washington Carver
• Jackie Robinson
• Maya Angelou
• Bass Reeves

Each booklet takes about 8 (?) pages to print so it does involve using up some paper. 

Assembly: Once printed off, each page was cut along the dotted line, put in chronological order and stapled into a booklet.

If this is something you're interested in, here's the link to the PDF.

Click HERE for the LINK but keep reading for some tidbits about printing . . . 

Tidbit #1: If you can, print (1) front and back and (2) flip on the short edge

Tidbit #2: This is only relevant if you want to save paper. There will be an odd number of pages in the assembled booklet so to save paper, I made pages 15 & 16 of the PDF identical. Here's a visual to explain better what I want to say . . .

If possible, I would suggest setting a custom print of 1-14 for the exact number of booklets you need. Because PDF pages 15 & 16 will give you 2 identical booklet pages, print off half the number you need for those pages.