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Culture Plus Consulting: Nine Cultural Value Differences You Need to Know

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This teaching resource provides a general understanding of cultural differences that need to be embraced by teachers and students.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Sudsy Cells

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students culture cells in order to find out which type of surfactant (in this case, soap) is best at removing bacteria. Groups culture cells from unwashed hands and add regular bar soap, regular liquid soap, anti-bacterial soap,...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Dream in Color, African American Heritage

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover the African American Culture and share the information through these lessons with your students. Choose from several different lesson plans and grade levels to help students learn about the African American Culture.
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Institute of Texan Cultures: Texans One and All

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This teaching guide presents 26 immigrant groups of Texas, along with activities. The groups are organized by the different types of push and pull factors that impacted on their decisions to immigrate, and a section on assimilation is...
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Organization for Community Networks

Ann Parish Elementary: Cultures of Our Nation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson plan teaches young children to celebrate and take pride in their cultural heritage.
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Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Tudor Society

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This slide show and the activities that follow focus on investigating the homes of different social groups in 16th century Tudor England using the inventory, a new type of evidence which began about 1640.
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Teach 21: Tell Me a Tale (Unit Plan)

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This fourteen instructional activity unit investigates reading and English language arts at a fifth grade level. The lessons display differences and similarities of cultures. The unit incorporates 21st century learning skills such as...
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Smithsonian Institution: Musica Del Pueblo

For Students 9th - 10th
Musica del Pueblo is a full-featured resource that explores the traditions of Latino music. Using a colorful mural titled "Song of Unity" as a navigation tool, visitors can watch videos of performances, listen to different varieties of...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Musical Travels for Children

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A series of lesson plans geared toward elementary learners. These lessons explore various musical cultures such as Germanic music, Korean songs, Ugandan music and Mexican music. You can use all of the lessons or simply choose which ones...
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Yesterday's Classics: Baldwin Project: More Jataka Tales: Table of Contents

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Links to twenty-one different fables from the book More Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt. Written in the Jataka tradition from India, these tales are interesting and teach life and character-building lessons to readers. An illustrated...
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade 2: Cinderella

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders explore versions of the Cinderella tale from various cultures around the world. Students create a Patterns in Cinderella Stories Chart to trace the connections and common ideas across the various tales. They further...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Family Art Guides

For Students 3rd - 8th
Even if you are miles away from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, these four-page downloadable family guides to the museum's collections make wonderful tools for teaching interesting things about art to children. Full-page illustrations...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 3: The Stories Julian Tells

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders learn that stories and books are important for learning about themselves and others. This unit allows students to learn how storytelling can be a way to learn about other cultures, pass on family history and traditions, and...
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Class Flow: Unit 1 Early Life in the Western Hemisphere

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a great unit for teaching how the early people migrated to the Americas through the Land Bridge Theory and some of the different characteristics of the Native America's culture.