New Episode available! Rosa Parks: A Proud Daughter

Rosa Parks with mother Leona McCauley. , . [Michigan?, 4/72] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2015648739/.

We are excited to launch a new KidCitizen episode: Rosa Parks: A Proud Daughter. 

It is available now, free to use for teachers and students, thanks to support from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program.

Our KidCitizen pedagogy focuses on three core skills: SEE, THINK, and WONDER.  This new episode focuses on the second skill, THINK, related to Analysis. In the episode, K-2 children analyze a greeting card to learn about Rosa Parks and her family. 

Exploring the inside of the card in the episode.

The greeting card offers a familiar resource for exploring family traditions. The front of the card has an image and some simple writing. The inside of the card has a poem, and the back of the card features Rosa Parks’ handwritten note to her mother.

Children observe the details of the card and analyze clues to figure out what family tradition was being celebrated. Working with in-game mentor Ella, children use parts of the card as evidence to support their ideas as they generate hypotheses about the card’s recipient, sender, and the feelings the sender wanted to express.

Children also examine the handwritten note on the back of the card, with scaffolding for the cursive writing.

Children explore the handwritten note on the card and practice deciphering the message by looking for familiar letters or words.

Rosa Parks: A Proud Daughter is available now, and plays in the browser on PCs, Macs, Chromebooks, and iOS and Android devices.

Explore and play “Rosa Parks: A Proud Daughter”

Two more new episodes also on the way.

This episode is part of a set of three new episodes being produced this year, each episode focused on one of the three primary source skills.

The other two episodes in production are:

A Close Look at the Miyatake Family:

Carefully observe a photograph of a Japanese American family interned at Manzanar.

A Bird’s Eye View:

Wondering with Maps:

Explore a map from long ago and begin wondering about the places where people live.