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Korean Culture
Sixth graders complete a research project for the sixth grade Big Book that is to be shared with the 5th graders. Students should take their time because the project represents them and the whole class.
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History and Artistry
Students explore the ways masks are used in various occupations and cultural ceremonies through readings, a play performance and guest speakers. They create a clay mask and a found art mask using principles of symmetry. After creating...
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Word Search Puzzles: Chinese Cultural Words
Young scholars complete a set of word searches about Chinese foods, geography and culture. Follow-up, extension and modifications to the lesson are given and include illustrating words of the puzzle, making original puzzles on another...
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Oral Interviews on Traditions and Celebrations
Students practice speaking in a target language through the use of oral interview techniques. They engage in conversations with peers using a certain theme of celebration and tradition. Students plan questions that they use in the...
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Social Studies: Countries and Technology
Learners participate in a travel simulation and have just arrived in Canada. After choosing activities to research, they define their methods of exploration and development on plan sheets. Among the scenarios from which they choose...
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Food and Languages of the World
Students listen to the story "No Blue Food" in this lesson. They then discuss Allegra, the main character, and her hesitation to try new foods. They participate in a matching game in which they match cards to determine a fruit topping...
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Italian Culture
Students are exposed to a part of Italian little "c": Cuisine. They learn the different kinds of pasta and some ingredients to make the sauce.
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Japanese Haiku and the American Experience
Twelfth graders research the history to Haiku Poetry. They read classical haiku to comprehend their special sensibility and form. Students encounter the Buddhist philosophical background of this poetry and its roots. They write original...
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American Transcendentalism and Buddhism:
Students study American transcendentalism through readings of Emerson and Thoreau. They make cognitive connections to the similarities to Buddhism in these writings. The connection of the literary movement is explained in the art of the...
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Global Music Lesson Plans: Singing Games - UK and Botswana
Students perform and compare two singing games from Botswana and from the United Kingdom. In this singing games lesson, students identify and respond to singing games and their changes in meter. Students compare the two singing games...
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Multi-cultural and Multiple Perspectives Literacy Lesson
Third graders compare their thoughts about Africa before and after reading an associated book. For this cultural understanding lesson, 3rd graders write down their thoughts about Africa. They receive information from the book, Somewhere...
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British Romanticism: An Introduction to the Social/Cultural Contexts
The major tenets of British Neoclassicism and Romanticism are listed in a presentation that also notes the significant consequences of industrialization. No context is provided for the slides of the paintings.
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Food and Languages of the World
Young scholars examine Japanese culture. In this multicultural lesson, students taste rice crackers and create Japanese fans from paper and paint.
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Talking About Travel and Culture
In this ESL worksheet, students study words associated with travel and culture. Students focus on 9 pictures and fill in the blank with the appropriate vocabulary. Students then use the pictures for speaking and...
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The War of the Worlds and Fear of Invasion
Learners examine how the state of politics and cultural context affect a work of science fiction. They study the power of the media to influence the public as they visit the museum.
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The Language Bank
Students work on the Internet to listen, read, and practice writing in a foreign language. They focus on the use of idiom and humor in other languages.