Need help in creating a black history museum for black history month. I would like for each grade to have a different project.

I have taught Black History to elementary students and middle school students.  The students always love to hear the stories about Harriet Tubman and her escape.  One of the activities that I did one year was to have each student choose an artifact that could represent something and write a small summary to accompany it.

For example: One student brought in a water hose and wrote a brief summary about the black people being hosed down in the streets when they protested the unfairness.  We put it in the Civil Rights section.  Another brought in a toy bus to symbolize the bus boycotts.

There was a section on slavery and students brought in pieces of cotton, a book and a letter (symbolic of the restrictions that would not allow black people to be able to read and write), and a pillow case for gathering cotton.

They also had a section on leadership.  In this section I had things brought in such as a picture of Martin Luther King Jr., some dolls that represented his family and a cross to represent that he was a minister.  One student brought in a brick to share what was taught at the Tuskegee Institute.

In sections of science and medicine a student brought in a peanut for George Washington Carver, etc.

If you have students who have trouble coming up with an idea think up a list of objects and steer them in the right direction.  Good luck!