National Humanities Center
Teaching The Great Gatsby: A Common Core Close Reading Seminar
The 41 slides in a professional development seminar model how to use close reading techniques to examine the many layers of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. In addition to passages from the novel, slides provide biographical...
Curated OER
How to Celebrate Kwanzaa on Your Campus
An article details everything you need to know about celebrating Kwanzaa at your school. An opening-day ceremony starts the seven-day holiday celebration followed a daily routine that includes a greeting, candle lighting, reciting an...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: American Indian Culture of the Southwest
We can thank the Indian tribes from the Southwest for introducing us to corn. Corn was seen as a spiritual gift in Pueblo societies. Study more of the cultural characteristics of these tribes such as their irrigation system which allowed...
Other
Early Cultures: Pre European Peoples of Wisconsin
An archaeologist's study of Western Wisconsin, this site helps us understand the early people living in Wisconsin 12,000 years ago.
Columbia University
Columbia University: Institute for Research in African American Studies
A website dedicated to studying African-American culture and history. Website includes information about the courses at the university as well as archived historical documents.
Stanford University
Stanford Center for Latin American Studies: Expressions of Honduras
The Stanford Center for Latin American Studies provides information, multimedia resources, and activities relating to the art and history of the Garinagu, or Garifuna, people of Honduras.
University of North Carolina
Center for the Study of the American South
Southern Cultures is a quarterly magazine that has published over seventy issues, with articles by many well-known scholars and authors. It explores the history and cultures of the American South. If your library or educational...
Other
Utah History to Go: American Indians
Online course material on southwest cultures specific to the state of Utah. Lesson contains questions and concepts for students and links to corresponding information. Students can link to articles, exhibits, historical photographs and...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of African Art: Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art
Explore the crafts that the African American culture exported from native African lands, basketry and cultivation of rice. With the lessons provided in the downloadable document, students will weave together history, geography, social...
Curated OER
National Park Service: Californio to American: A Study in Cultural Change
This site has a instructional activity about the ranching industry, creation of California towns and the changes over time. Contains information, inquiry question, historical context, maps, readings, and images.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: European Americans
With this resource the students will learn about the culture and origin of the 80 percent of Americans who are descend from people of European ethnicity.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Social Studies: Grade 5: Indigenous Cultures
This sample task contains a set of primary and authentic sources about the indigenous cultures of the Americas.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 22: Youth Culture and the Rock Festival
The major rock festivals have been viewed as seminal mileposts of the counterculture era. Not only were there significant musical performances from the festivals themselves, but music was created before and after these concerts to...
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania: The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s
This site provides a very large collection of web resources for a study of American culture during the fifties. Some links no longer work.
Other
American Studies Online: Theme Parks and Mass Culture
This site is provided for by American Studies Online. The Disney concept and philosophy has had a widespread influence on American life beyond the amusement parks. This article shows the influence has even spread to shopping malls and...
Read Works
Read Works: What's the Big Idea About Anthropology?: Studying Cultures
[Free Registration/Login Required] Intended to support elementary students' reading comprehension, the meaning of the term "anthropology" is explained in this informational text. Graphic features are provided in this text.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Lipan Apache Religion and Expressive Culture
With this resource the students will learn about the culture and origin of the Lipan Apache, a native American people.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Cherokee
With this resource the students will learn about the culture and origin of the Cherokee, an American Indian group.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Cayuse
With this resource the students will learn about the culture and origin of the Cayuse, an American Indian group.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Cayuga
With this resource the students will learn about the culture and origin of the Cayuga, an American Indian group.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Catawba
With this resource the students will learn about the culture and origin of the Catawba, an American Indian group.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Carrier
With this resource the students will learn about the culture and origin of the Carrier people, an American Indian group.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Cahuilla
With this resource the students will learn about the culture and origin of the American Indian group the Cahuilla.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Blackfoot
With this resource the students will learn about the culture and origin of the Blackfoot people. An American Indian group.