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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)
- 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.
- Crossing Cultures: Online course syllabus
- Syllabus for Crossing Cultures, 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
- Potter in India
- In India, a potter throws a pot on a wheel.
- Format: image/photograph
- 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 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
- 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, 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 3–5 Visual Arts Education)
- By Tamela Davis.
- Girl posing near Dogubayazit, Turkey
- A young girl poses for the camera in front of a pile of dark colored rocks near Dougbayazit, Turkey. The dark skinned, smiling girl is wearing an orange corduroy tunic with her hair tied up turban-like in a purple scarf.
- Format: image/photograph
- 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 English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Social Studies)
- By Shirley Young.
- 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 4 Social Studies)
- To market, to market: Photograph analysis
- In this lesson, students analyze photos of markets from around the world to gain an understanding of the similarities and differences between geographically distant places, to learn about the economic and cultural significance of markets, and to improve visual literacy skills.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Eric Eaton.
- Understanding the Columbian Exchange
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 5.1
- This lesson will help students think about the effects of the Columbian Exchange, particularly the exchange of disease as it affected the psychology of the Europeans and Native populations in the early settlement of the Americas.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Wife inheritance and the AIDS epidemic in Africa
- When an African man dies, it is the responsibility of his brother to inherit his widow. This has become a key factor in the spread of the AIDS virus. This plan looks at this tradition and the AIDS epidemic in African countries and students will discuss possible solutions in a Paideia seminar.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Greg Mitchell.
- Why study a foreign language?
- Foreign language study enhances academic skills, raises SAT scores, and prepares students for careers.
- By Bernadette Morris.
- Man selling goods in Istanbul, Turkey
- An older man sits on a curb with a table of bottles in front of him. The bottles are filled with a variety of substances in several colors. The man has on a dark suit, with a round, dark green hat exposing his ears and face, the lower half of which is covered...
- Format: image/photograph
