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Cirque Du Soleil a Brief Visit to a Tower of Babel

For Students 9th - 10th
An enlightening look at the world renowned Cirque de Soleil.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Achieving Group Diversity

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a cooperative grouping strategy. Students will learn communication skills in ethnically and culturally diverse groups.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Myths, Folktales and Fairy Tales

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Collection of folktales, myths, and fairy tales from around the world. Scholastic provides lesson plans and activities to help young scholars understand and even create their own myth, folktale, or fairy tale.
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Tv5 Monde

For Students 9th - 10th
French students can watch real French television news here by simply clicking on INFO.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Popular Culture

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an introduction to a unit on Popular Culture with focus on 21st century novels and expository writing.
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NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Jews & African Americans Built Tradition

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the history of the Freedom Seder, a Jewish and African-American tradition. Includes an audio version of the story and a video.
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Other

Lang Media: Language by Country Resources

For Students 9th - 10th
Links to country-specific multimedia presentations on numerous world languages, including video clips with transcripts and English translations. Sites also feature cultural information valuable to potential travelers. Includes video...
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The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this extensive Ezra-Jack Keats website. It gives a summary of the different books and looks at Keats as a person and author.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: 1st Grade Act. 10: Rock Art

For Teachers 1st
This module engages students in designing their own rock art. Teachers will engage students in a shared texts, The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush by Tomie dePaola and Mathematics from Many Cultures by Calvin Irons, James Burnett and...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Cinderella: A Character With Culture

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will engage in a Reader's Theater adaptation of Cinderella after reading several different versions that come from various cultures. Students will complete a graphic organizer with story elements that apply to the story Cinderella.
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Native Dance

For Students 9th - 10th
A wealth of material for students, teachers, and scholars researching native dance: interviews, articles, an image database, downloadable resource kits, and video footage.
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Oberlin: Arts of Asia in Reach (Lesson Plans)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A collection of 15 different lesson plans focusing on the art of Asia. Lessons that focus on a variety of different media are available for all age levels.
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Other

Anti Discrimination Committee: Arab Stereotypes & Educators

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site provides an analysis of stereotypes of Arabs in US pop culture and textbooks, the role of educators in combating these stereotypes, and the effects of such stereotypes on Arab American children. It includes a bibliography for...
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International Reading Association

Using Bilingual Books in Esl and Mainstreamed Classrooms

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The authors explain strategies for using bilingual books to foster literacy development with ESL learners. They argue that the presence of books in other languages in the classroom library sends a clear message about the value of...
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International Reading Association

Using Bilingual Books in Esl and Mainstreamed Classrooms

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The authors explain strategies for using bilingual books to foster literacy development with ESL learners. They argue that the presence of books in other languages in the classroom library sends a clear message about the value of...
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PBS

Arthur's World Neighborhood: Lesson Plans

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A variety of activities, resources, and tips designed to help kids explore cultural diversity within their own communities and around the world. All suggestions based on books from the "Arthur" series, which airs on most PBS stations....
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Escort: Educating Migrant Children

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
With links and resources, this organization uses federal funding (among other sources) to run a hotline for migrant farm workers and their families (National Migrant Education Hotline), to publish teaching kits (for teachers at all...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: World Cultures Collection

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Explore the world with PBS LearningMedia! This collection focuses on food, folktales, and other aspects of cultural heritage. With your class, hear stories, play through situations, and learn how to make crafts from cultures near and far.
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Equity and Social Justice Awareness Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
How sensitive are you to cultural and multicultural issues? Here a quick quiz, along with classroom discussion tips, to help you explore the answer. Available online or as a downloadable document (PDF, Word).
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Time Is Not on Our Side: Literacy and Literature for High School El Ls

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Given that teachers often have too much to teach and too little time, teacher Dana Dusbiber suggests an alternative approach to teaching literature for secondary ELLs: the introduction of more multicultural literature in the classroom.
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Everything ESL

Everything Esl: Harvest Festivals Around the World

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Use this activity to promote a multicultural discussion about the many different harvest celebrations around the world. Festivals in Ghana, China, Korea, Vietnam, and India are included!
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New York Times

New York Times: A Diverse First Family

For Students 9th - 10th
Investigate Barack Obama's family tree to discover his family's diverse multicultural roots.
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University of California

Multiverse

For Students 6th - 8th
Resource works to increase diversity in Earth and Space science through multicultural education.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Hope and Change

For Students 9th - 10th
In 2008, American voters, tired of war and dispirited by the economic downturn, elected a relative newcomer to the political scene who inspired them and made them believe that the United States could rise above political partisanship....

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