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- Traditional weaving in Ecuador
- Photographs and text illustrate traditional weaving in Ecuador, from carding and spinning wool to selling finished products at the market.
- Format: slideshow (multiple pages)
- Traditional performing arts in Bali
- Photographs and text illustrate traditional performance in Bali, including music, theater, and dance.
- Format: slideshow (multiple pages)
- Crossing cultures I: Self awareness
- This online course helps teachers gain a greater awareness of their own cultural background, as well as acquire tools to interact appropriately and effectively with people from a variety of cultures.
- Format: article/online course
- Around the world with food
- In Food for thought: Elementary lessons on nutrition and healthy living, page 1.2
- Many traditional foods of different cultures have become staple foods that we eat in the United States, too. In this kindergarten lesson plan from the Food for Thought nutrition curriculum, students learn about the MyPyramid food groups and about foods of different cultures.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Healthful Living)
- Photo analysis: Focus on world pottery traditions
- A worksheet for students to use when analyzing photographs of pottery-making.
- Format: worksheet
- By Eric Eaton.
- Photo analysis: Focus on carpet weaving
- A worksheet for students to use when analyzing photographs of carpet weaving.
- Format: worksheet
- By Eric Eaton.
- The sounds of prayer in Southeast Asia
- This minilesson uses audio recordings of the prayers of three different religions as an introduction to the cultural diversity of Southeast Asia.
- Format: lesson plan
- By David Walbert.
- Food and culture
- In Food for thought: Elementary lessons on nutrition and healthy living, page 6.3
- We associate different kinds of cuisine with specific places in the world, but why do people eat what they eat? This lesson plan for the fifth-grade, from the Food for Thought nutrition curriculum, explores world cultures and ethnic groups and the foods in their diets.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Healthful Living)
- Crossing Cultures: Online course syllabus
- Crossing Cultures 1: Self Awareness, is a course to help teachers gain a greater awareness of their own cultural background, as well as acquire tools to interact appropriately and effectively with people from a variety of cultures.
- Format: syllabus
- Food for thought: Elementary lessons on nutrition and healthy living
- Teaching children about the importance of a healthy diet and plenty of exercise creates a basis for a healthy lifestyle. These lesson plans for grades K-5 provide fun activities to get them started on this path.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- Potter in India
- In India, a potter throws a pot on a wheel.
- Format: image/photograph
- Around the world in multimedia
- LEARN NC offers a collection of more than 2,000 high-resolution photographs and audio recordings from Asia and Latin America, with historical and cultural context and related lesson plans.
- Format: article/help
- Child and pottery in Nepal
- In Nepal, a child sits on a stoop near a number of clay pots.
- Format: image/photograph
- Around the world, a multicultural unit
- The students will listen to stories from different cultures. They will participate in directed discussion, followed by a related art activity.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts, Guidance, Healthful Living, and Social Studies)
- By Judy Cliver.
- Reading guide: The religious world of the Cherokee
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 2.6
- These questions will help to guide students' reading of "Maintaining Balance: The Religious World of the Cherokee" and encourage them to think critically about the text. The questions ask the students to consider Cherokee religious beliefs and how they may have affected interactions with the Europeans who arrived in the early 1700s.
- Format: /lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- In the spirit of... (museum post-visit)
- This is an integrated unit that focuses on masks in cultures as reflections of individual spirits. In the post-visit lesson, students will create plaster masks and write a brief description.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Visual Arts Education)
- By Tamela Davis.
- Multicultural cross-grade level unit plan
- This unit of study integrates reading, writing, math, and social studies. It is designed to help first and third grade students relate to other cultures of the world. They will understand and compare the similarities and differences of children, families, and communities in different times and places. They will analyze religious and other cultural traditions. They will apply basic geographic concepts.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–3 English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Social Studies)
- By Shirley Young.
- Topics in Social Studies Education
- In Preservice teacher education resources, page 2.2
- Resources Specific to Social Studies Social Studies Teaching Methods The Paideia Seminar Paideia embodies an educational approach...
- Format: article/teacher's guide
- Teaching world languages online - Carolina Online Teacher Program
- Participants in this online course will learn how to take advantage of technology tools and of the online environment to create a language-learning environment that fosters student self-direction through collaborative activities and a student-centered focus.
- Why is the past important?
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 1.2
- As an introduction to the study of North Carolina's archaeological heritage, students will use personally owned object to share the importance of their past and connect this importance with reasons why the human past is important.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Social Studies)
