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Everyone has a Culture-Everyone is Different

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students explore cultural features.  In this multicultural acceptance activity, students define and discuss "culture," and distinguish the difference between individual characteristics and cultural characteristics.  Students complete a...
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Famous Person: Yushiko Uchida

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Third, fourth, and fifth graders read the book The Bracelet by Yushiko Uchida and examine the events of Uchida's life. They participate in a guided discussion of Japanese culture, perform a reader's theater, listen to a guest speaker,...
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Deeper Differences Between Cultures

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students learn about major differences between cultures.  In this cultural sensitivity lesson, students learn about time-focused, event-focused, verbal, non-verbal, achievement-based, status-based, individual, and collective cultures.
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Let's Get Along

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students examine the book Smoky Night. In this cultural lesson, students read the text and discuss why it's important to get along with others. Students complete a Venn diagram to compare and contrast themselves with a peer.
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Louisiana Crafts and Domestic Arts

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Discuss with the class the reasons for identifying and defining the term material culture as refering to a vast array of objects and activities that people make and do traditionally. Your class can identify diverse crafts and decorative...
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An Academic, Economic, Cultural, and Political Lesson Plan

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students reflect on how many board games they've played have African Americans, their culture or history incorporated within. They identify four street games and three card games that appeal to African Americans. They play the...
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Understanding Chinese Culture Through Reading

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students examine the Chinese culture. They discuss the Chinese zodiac, identify their animal on the zodiac, listen to a Chinese folktale, and write an essay reflection on the Chinese zodiac or Chinese culture.
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Modern-Day Heroes: People Who Are Making a Difference

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Not all superheroes wear capes. An engaging lesson delves into the world of modern-day heroes and activists for change. Academics learn there are many different ways to be a hero as well as explore what makes a person a hero. The...
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The First Americans Today

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine how Native American cultures are an important part of their existence. They look at celebrations, daily activities, values, and beliefs in a number of recommended books and share the information with other classmates.
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Chinese New Year

For Students Pre-K - 6th
Gong hei fat choy! Celebrate Chinese New Year with a variety of activities that introduce learners to the Chinese myth of the race that determined which animals earned their place the zodiac.
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Getting Out on the Land

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore seasonal change in the environment around their community. They investigate how changes in climate are affecting hunting, trapping, fishing and berry picking around their community. Students write about the...
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Osage, Legend, and Arkansas History

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Elementary schoolers evaluate the legend of Norristown Mountain by looking at facts about the Osage Indians and the legend itself. They do an exploration of Arkansas' Native American groups which includes a look at their legends,...
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Egypt

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
From pharaohs and pyramids to the mummification process, this packet is a fantastic resource for studying ancient Egypt! Worksheets not only review key terms and practices that are foundational to ancient Egyptian culture, such as...
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Discuss It

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
A key part of learning about different people and things is knowing how to have a constructive discussion in a respectful way. The class establishes a set of rules for their discussion and then begins a conversation about a wide array of...
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History's Heroes

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students compare two people who are considered to be heroes. In this heroes lesson, students read books or selections about two people who accomplished something special. They make a compare and contrast chart that includes nine...
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Absolutely and Relatively: The Puerto Rico Quarter Reverse

For Teachers 5th - 8th
How much does your class know about Puerto RIco? How much can they learn from the back of a 2009 quarter? Use the coin, part of a series of quarters that depict US territories, to teach learners about the geography, culture, and history...
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Community Service Through Art: Empty Bowls

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders become more aware of the worldwide poverty issues. Through reading books, they can get a feeling for what the daily life of a person who lives in poverty is like. The research skills studied can be used in different subjects.
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Thematic Unit: Beginning Holocaust Studies

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discuss concepts of diversity, culture, and prejudice, gain understanding of harm caused by prejudice, and demonstrate ability to think critically and a desire to act morally.
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Mayan Math

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate the Maya's as mathematicians. In this Mayan math lessons, 5th graders work with the ancient Mayan numbering system by comparing it to the American Number System. They tell the differences and similarities...
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Festivals of Light Hanukkah

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Five sessions make up a lesson on the Jewish celebration of Hanukkah. After reading and teaching young historians the history of the Jewish holiday, learners explore the celebration through hands-on activities and collaborative learning.
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Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students study and appreciate differences in objects and humans. In this differences lesson, students study various objects and associate them with human qualities. Students share their information and discuss how objects can be given...
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Appliqué Bedcover

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students examine the process of creating patriotic American appliqué designs. They research American patriotic appliqué quilts, list American symbols, and design and create their own paper appliqué designs.
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Where in the World is Cinderella?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students read several versions of the Cinderella story and examine variations from different cultures. They consider how point of view affects a story and develop a multimedia presentation with their observations.
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Birthplace of John F. Kennedy: Home of the Boy Who Would Be President

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students explore the upbringing of John Kennedy and how it effected his culture, character and personality. They investigate their own family traditions, values, and interests.

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