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The Mudcat Cafe: Gourd Rattlers
What is a calabash? Use this website and find out what it is but also how to make it. This gourd rattler can be constructed with the easy to follow directions.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Follow the Drinking Gourd
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is based upon the book, Follow the Drinking Gourd.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Drinking Gourd
After learning the song Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winters, students will use the Underground Railroad to identify with some goal or task in their own life.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Pumpkin Facts
NPR's Skunk Bear teaches us some fun facts about America's favorite decorative gourd. [3:28]
Other
Virtual Instrument Museum: Musical Instrument Materials
This interesting site is part of the Virtual Instrument Museum and it lists a variety of materials (clay, stone, wood, gourd, skin, and more) and then it lists a number of instruments created from that particular material. Each...
International Institute of Social History
International Institute of Social History: A High Tower of Winter Gourds
From the International Institute of Social History this is "May Day. All with Fidel on the Square of the Revolution" a Cuban political propaganda poster by an unknown designer, ca. 1965.
International Institute of Social History
International Institute of Social History: A High Tower of Winter Gourds
From the International Institute of Social History this is "Fourth anniversary of the revolution" a Cuban political propaganda poster by an unknown designer, 1963.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 19: Runaway Slaves
The Underground Railroad was a significant part of American History. It served as a lifeline to hundreds of slaves who risked their lives to escape the horrors of bondage. Through readings of primary sources and listening to music,...
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Popular Mexican Arts
This site has a curriculum unit for high school students on popular Mexican art. Provides four lesson plans, links, a bibliography, and even video suggestions.
PBS
Pbs: Independent Lens: Strange Fruit: Protest Music Past and Present
Listen to audio clips of songs of protest from eight eras of U.S. history. Explore the lyrics, learn about the songwriters, and gather background information on the music that served and continues to serve as a catalyst for thought,...
The Henry Ford
Living Under Enslavement: African Americans on Hermitage Plantation
This virtual tour of the slave quarters of the Hermitage Plantation tells of the family life of slaves, their skills, and their resistance to the institution of slavery.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Ganda
The Ganda are a group of people who live in the province of Buganda in Uganda. The Ganda are primarily an agricultural society; their staple crops are bananas and yams. Cotton was introduced as a market crop early in the twentieth...
Authors Calendar
Author's Calendar: Lorraine Hansberry
Site offers a good biographical sketch of Lorraine Hansberry, along with a link to more information and a list of selected works.
Scholastic
Scholastic Instructor: The Path to Freedom
Here is a great list of ideas for teachers to utilize in the classroom for lessons about the Underground Railroad. This site provides historical information, facts, reproductibles and more.
Nature Conservancy
Nature Conservancy: Nash Prairie Preserve
Explore the beauty of America's prairies and examine efforts to preserve this vanishing part of America's landscape.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Zora Neale Hurston
Encyclopaedia Britannica provides a biography of Zora Neale Hurston, a famous novelist and first African American graduate of Barnard College.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Slave Life and the Underground Railroad
A brief summary of the history of African American slavery and the Underground Railroad. Activities and books pertaining to slave life, plantations, and the Underground Railroad are suggested.
Yale University
Yale: Popular Mexican Arts
This unit on Mexican art comes with four lesson plans, art activities, a bibliography, video suggestions, and web links.
Other
Steven Mintz: Excerpts From Slave Narratives
A collection of exceperts from a wide variety of slave narratives.
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids: Guiro
Use this resource to learn about the percussion family of the orchestra and the guiro. This instrument is untuned and comes from South and Central America.