Combine your lesson on patriotism with a lesson on comparing and contrasting. Focusing on The Star Spangled Banner, Take Me Out to the Ballgame, and The Old Folks at Home, this lesson prompts learners to compare and contrast each song...

This was written for ESOL learners, but could work for any elementary class. Learners read about the American dance style known as Square Dancing. They explore its use in literature, write a friendly letter about it, and then use their...

Learners investigate the benefits of dance and participate in dances. In this dance lesson, students investigate a number of dances such as square dancing and clogging that are native to Appalachia. They use math concepts to determine...

What type of writing is this? Learners read a brief introduction to various types of text: instructions, explanations, poems, folk tales, novels, informative, and arguments. The introduction doesn't explain these, so...

Students create original examples of the ancient Chinese Folk Art technique of Paper-Cutting in this middle-level lesson highly adaptable for either the Art classroom or a Social Studies class.

In this word quilt worksheet, students use the word quilt template (available separately) to create a word quilt after discussing and recording what folklife means to them. Students work in groups of four.

Students examine the many types of folk art at a museum. They create their own theorem painting by following the steps given to them.

In this art activity, students make a folk-art style painting of a room in their home. Kids select a room. They choose a secret number and draw items in sets of the number they selected. Students are directed to keep their painting...

In this online scavenger hunt worksheet, students look for Louisiana folklife traditions on the Web. They must be prepared to describe their findings and tell where they found them.

Students complete activities to explore family folklore. In this folklore instructional activity, students define in writing family folklore, identify aspects of family folklife through discussions of their own traditions. Students...

Students listen to Caribbean folk music and discuss maracas and their role in music. They construct and design pairs of maracas using paper mache, then perform a Puerto Rican folk song using their maracas.

In this Louisiana folk artist worksheet, students match the names of Louisiana 8 folk artists listed with the folk groups and towns to which they most likely belong.

Young scholars create their own festival. In this folk life lesson plan, students research their folklore history by interviewing their parents and grandparents, organizing the data found, and presenting that material to the class. Young...

In this folk regions worksheet, students study the objects by visiting the URL links, and then decide whether each of the 25 belongs in the North Louisiana, South Louisiana, or New Orleans folk regions.

For this cultural processes in action worksheet, students explore their preconceptions surrounding folk, popular, and elite cultural processes. This is part of a series of worksheets on folklife.

Eighth graders collect and compare folk beliefs and sayings about health and healing as well as folk remedies. Then they investigate local graveyards, analyze their findings, and compare graveyards in Louisiana. Students also engage in...

In this musical movement worksheet, students explore folk music movement by answering short answer questions that accompany a video or performance.

In this Louisiana folk regions worksheet, students determine in which regions of the state they would be most likely to find the 33 listed traditions and provide a reason as proof for their answers.

In this geography, ecology, and folklife worksheet, students choose a region of the state of Louisiana and fill in the blanks with facts they have learned in class.

Students read African folk tales to learn about story elements and writing techniques. In this writing and reading skills lesson, students listen and retell African folk tales about Anansi the spider. Students complete four lessons to...

Students identify many genres of music and connect styles of music with various cultures. They watch "The Greatest TV Moments: Sesame Street Music A to Z" and list music styles: folk, jazz, rock, etc.

Fourth graders are introduced to the concept of the seasonal round and how folklife traditions vary from season to season. They begin charting dates of personal interest on seasonal round calendars by starting with birthdays. Students...

In this school customs instructional activity, learners answer 6 questions to enable them to consider the folklife of their school to inspire classroom discussion of the topic.

Click here to download a PDF of this lesson. (2.8 MB) Overview This lesson will enable teachers to use the blues to explore selected topics in African American folklore. Students will learn about some of the African American cultural...