• Council House Front Door

    Mary McLeod Bethune Council House

    National Historic Site DC

Teaching With Historic Places Curriculum

We have the privilege to be the focus of a Teaching with Historic Places Lesson Plan titled: The Mary McLeod Bethune Council House: African American Women Unite for Change.

Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) uses properties listed in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places to enliven history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects. TwHP has created a variety of products and activities that help teachers bring historic places into the classroom.

To quote from the Plan:

This lesson is based on the Historic Resources Study for Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site, as well as other materials on Bethune and the National Council of Negro Women. The lesson was written by Brenda K. Olio, former Teaching with Historic Places historian, and edited by staff of the Teaching with Historic Places program and Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site. This lesson is one in a series that brings the important stories of historic places into classrooms across the country.

 
Visit the The Teaching with Historic Places homepage. It contains over 135 online lesson plans on a wide variety of topics.

Did You Know?

Mary McLeod Bethune pins a corsage on Eleanor Roosevelt.

Eleanor Roosevelt twice came to Daytona Beach, Florida, as the guest of Mary McLeod Bethune. She stayed in Mrs. Bethune's home on the campus of the Bethune-Cookman College.