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Lesson Plan
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "What's in a Name"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes helping students reflect on their value and self-worth, promoting appreciation of their individuality, ethnicity, and cultural heritage, and...
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Strategies for Empowering Students

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Use this site to focus on character education and building an understanding of diversity and cultural heritage. This excellent site provides classroom activity exercises for students in the primary, intermediate, and upper level. It is a...
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Website
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Strategies for Empowering Students

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Use this site to focus on character education and building an understanding of diversity and cultural heritage. This excellent site provides classroom activity exercises for students in the primary, intermediate, and upper level. It is a...
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Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Ed "Interpreting Maxims"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes motivating students to read, encouraging students to use critical thinking skills, cooperative learning and shared experiences, and appreciation...
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Other

Tokyo Broadcasting System Television: The World Heritage

For Students 9th - 10th
Japanese content. A companion site for the TV program, Sekaiisan, or The World Heritage. Episodes focus on cultural and "natural" heritage and are similar in feel to a National Geographic special. You can't watch the episode online but...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Arts and Humanities: Approaches to Art History

For Students 9th - 10th
A landing page for a course in Art History.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Colonialism

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students identify the Impacts of Colonialism - to include social, economic and political legacies and how these led to civil wars, dictators, and corrupt governments. Students grasp the complexity of...
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Other

The National Museum of Finland

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives a brief overview of the museum. Address and phone number are given with links to a little more information.
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Lesson Plan
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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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs: Lesson Plan: A Nation of Many Cultures

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan is based on the "America Responds" series where learners explore the concepts of valuing diversity and appreciation of cultural differences. An integrated art, social studies, and language arts lesson plan that is...