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Creating Family Memories While Making Bread
Young scholars work together to make fry bread. They measure out the correct amounts of each ingredient and reflect how it is part of their culture. Using the internet, they research recipes from different cultures and write about their...
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Jingle Bells
Second graders identify people of different ages, cultural backgrounds, traditions, and careers. They explain how they contribute to the community. Students sing a song to display the different Christmas traditions that are celebrated in...
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Hindu Festival - Let's Celebrate Diwali
Students explore characteristics, roles and cultural expressions of Indian community in New Zealand. They describe traditional practices of Diwali Festival, collect and record information, design open-ended questionnaire, create Diwali...
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Get To Know Others
Students study their own culture, traditions and ways of life. They compare and contrast their culture with other cultures.
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Designing Animal Masks
Middle schoolers explore cultural traditions. In this instructional activity, about culture, students understand beliefs and traditions of different civilizations. Middle schoolers analyze the meaning of animals to represent meaning to a...
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African Safari
Sixth graders gain an appreciation for the different cultures that inhabit the Earth by focusing on the people of Africa
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Mexican Masks
Young scholars explore the Mexican mask-making tradition and create maks that tell stories. They desribe how art tells stories and examine early Mexican culture in California.
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God's Life
Students explore the Huichole culture. They create a craft that is typical of the Huichole culture. Students partake in a variety of traditional Spanish foods and music. They use Spanish vocabulary while creating their craft.
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Arts of Asia in Reach
Students explore the traditions and celebrations of another culture and research a city or community in Japan. They then examine traditional Japanese music as well as practice several dance steps and discover their significance in...
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Global Story Book
Young scholars work with a school in another country to produce a Global Story Book. They write stories and design pictures that describe both cultures.
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The Maya
Students demonstrate an understanding of the Mayan Culture. This is done by developing and answering questions about cultural traditions. They also label geographical regions on a map to incorporate Geography.
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South Asians in Canada: Unity through diversity
Ninth graders explore the elements of culture and their role in a multicultural society. In this World History lesson, 9th graders examine the concepts of diversity.
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Japan
Seventh graders identify some key concepts, ideas, and facts about Japan. Students identify shared traits and differences of Japan as compared to other asian countries. Students identify how geography can affect the culture of a place....
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Love And Marriage
Fourth graders examine and compare Indian and American culture in order to develop a better understanding of both.
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Finding My Hat
Sixth graders explore the Korean culture through the book, Finding My Hat. They read and discuss the book in literature circles and write in response journals after each chapter. Comparing the main character to themselves, they note the...
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What Masks Reveal
Students explore the cultural significance of masks by investigating the role they play in ceremonies and on special occasions in societies from widely separated regions of the world.
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Quinceaneras
Students explore traditions which are celebrated in Quinceaneras. They examine the Latin American culture, its beliefs and value systems. Students analyze vocabulary words. They write a story about Quinceaneras.
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Social Studies: What Is Folklife?
Students read an essay about folklife and record their thoughts in journals. After discussing the terms associated with the topic, they complete worksheets on types of folklife, pop, elite, and folk cultures. Depending on the age group,...
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Music: The Earth Is My Mother
Pupils sing The Earth Is My Mother in English and discuss its meaning to the Oneida people. They copy the words in the Oneida language and practice singing it in their native tongue. Students discover how the song relates to the...
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All Our Relations: A Learning Experience
Students participate in a group activity in which they each represent various components of a story about culture, collective human rights, and indigenous rights. As the story is read they create a life-size story web with yarn. Then...
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Central Europe’s Glorious Ball Season Starts
Ninth graders examine the Ball season in Europe. In this European Culture ESL activity, 9th graders read an article and answer guided reading questions. Students complete a graphic organizer on going to a ball.
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African Art and Personal Adornment
Students explore the concept of personal adornment. They view and compile a list examples and compare personal adornment in American culture to that in African culture.
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Enter Through the Form: Explore Japan Treasure Hunt
Young scholars use the internet to take a virtual treasure hunt to Japan. Using other websites, they gather information on the country's values and beliefs along with its culture and geography. They relate Japan's culture to that of...
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South Korea
Students use primary and secondary resources in order to investigate the culture of South Korea. They use guiding questions that progressively lead them to higher order thinking to make connections from the information to how people live.