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LEARN NC, a program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Center for Diversity Education
Asheville, NC (http://www.diversityed.org/)
Resource summary
- Appropriate grades: 3–12
- Subjects: English language arts (story telling), healthful living (family life and human relations), social studies (civics and government, North Carolina), thinking skills (higher order thinking)
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- All About ME: Likenesses & Differences This lesson will help to enhance the self-esteem of the students by focusing on each child's individual differences.
- Stories From the Holocaust This lesson is designed to supplement a study of World War II. Students will read first hand accounts of individuals who escaped Nazi persecution and eventually settled in Asheville, North Carolina. This lesson may be used as an 8th grade Social Studies or English project(It could also be used as an integrated project), 10th grade English, or 11th grade US History. This lesson use the NCEcho portal to access the material.
More on the web
- Seeds of Change Garden Students can build their own Seeds of Change garden to learn about plants, foods of different cultures, and more.
- Indivisible: Stories of American Community Discover community life in America through photographs and interviews that represent the breadth and depth of the local American experience through diverse voices and images, in which members of the public will be able to see and hear aspects of their own experiences.
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The center provides area schools the means to increase the ways diversity is explored in the curriculum. Through exhibits, traveling trunks, road shows, and staff development programs, teachers and students learn the critical role diversity plays in a healthy democracy and assists them in acquiring the skills necessary for its maintenance.
The Center for Diversity Education is located located on the University of North Carolina Asheville campus at Zageir Hall, room 222. Call 828-232-5024 for more information.