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Accepting Another Culture

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners explore cultural diversity. In this cultural acceptance lesson, students read Molly's Pilgrim and examine the message of the story. Learners research other cultures and create culture-grams and complete research worksheets.
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Oral History

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students create oral histories. In this oral history activity, students prepare for and conduct interviews with Holocaust survivors, liberators, or rescuers. Students study the provided procedure for the interview and present their...
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Exploring Community History and Cultural Influence

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore cultural attributes. In this cultural diversity lesson plan, students define culture and discuss the diversity of culture that exists in the world. Students determine whether or not there is an American culture.
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The Play's the Thing: The Drama of Cyrano de Bergerac

For Teachers 8th
Students practice dramatic 'living' through various drama activities. In this drama lesson, students define drama, view examples of dramatic elements in Cyrano de Bergerac and Roxanne, define characterization within the dramas, study the...
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Daily Life in Ancient Greece

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders discover what everyday life was like for Ancient Greeks. In this Greek history lesson, 6th graders examine the cultural diversity of Ancient Greece and how it affected daily life for its citizens.
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You've Got to be Taught to Hate and Fear

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore themes of prejudice and acceptance. For this character education lesson, students listen and respond to several fiction books, poems, and lyrics with a similar theme. Students locate articles with the main idea of...
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Maniac McGee, Lesson 3

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students explore possible causes of stereotyping. In this multicultural awareness lesson, students participate in activities in which "conditioning" affects responses. Students compare their conditioned responses to possible community...
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Dance: Cultural Dance Festival

For Teachers K - 5th
Students participate in a folk dance presentation. For this multi-cultural lesson, students and their families work together to learn and perform folk dances at a school sponsored festival. The teacher acts as facilitator, working with...
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Heritage and Citizenship: Traditions, Celebrations and Cultural Diversity

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore the concept of cultural diversity. In this traditions instructional activity, 2nd graders investigate the cultures of Canada as they discuss traditions within the country. An extension mathematics activity is...
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Cultural Diversity

For Teachers 10th - 12th
In this cultural diversity worksheet, students respond to 7 short answer questions and answer 14 fill in the blank questions regarding the components of culture.
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Diversity of All of Us

For Students 6th - 8th
In this social studies worksheet, students look for the words that define the identities of many different cultures. The answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Cinderella: A Story Found in Many Cultures

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore, discuss and examine fairy-tale and make-believe stories. They assess two different types of Cinderella stories to surface a broader look at cultural diversity. Students construct a Venn Diagram or a chart of the...
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Social Studies: Countries and Technology

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students participate in a travel simulation and have just arrived in Canada. After choosing activities to research, they define their methods of exploration and development on plan sheets. Among the scenarios from which they choose...
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Stress Factors and Careers

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders explore factors that cause stress. They identify stress factors and how to deal with them. They role-play differences in cultures and equity issues and how they are affected by them. They record stresses they have and rate...
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Japanese Folktales

For Teachers K - 8th
Young scholars identify that Japanese folktales reveal information about Japanese history, life, and customs. Students identify and interpret the work kamishibai, paper play and explain that in Japanese folktales are told through a...
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Our World is Like a Rainbow

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Students create a Venn diagram of people's similarities and differences. They investigate why people relocate to different geographic regions after investigating the positives and negatives of different states.
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JAPANESE CULTURE

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore what life in Japan is like including, home and daily life, food and eating customs, school life, games and sports, holiday customs, and religion.
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Ethnic Foods Exchange

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the following topics: geography and culture, types of foods, cooking utensils, and cooking techniques used. They present in groups, then prepare ethnic food products.
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Cultural Diversity

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students explore cultural diversity.  In this secondary mathematics instructional activity, students use jelly beans to explore diversity.  Students collect and analyze data into a matrix as they determine probabilities.
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Diversiones Culturales - Artistas

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars use resources provided in the library to research an artist who has impacted their area of art. They then take their information and create a PowerPoint presentation and translate the Spanish for the class so they are all...
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Good Heavens

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners look at the history of science to identify some of the scientific ideas that different cultures have contributed to science throughout history. They describe using examples ideas developed by different cultures to explain the...
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I am, you are, we are...

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students recognize that individual and groups have both common and different attributes and that each individual may be a member of many different groups. They choose a potato to paint a picture showing the character of their "friend"....
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Understanding Cultural Diversity

For Teachers 1st
First graders examine different types of art to help them explain the idea of cultural diversity. This is a unit focusing on works of art.
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All Folks Were Created Equal

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Young scholars read the book, "All Folks Were Created Equal" and participate in games, activities and exercises.