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Dick Blick Art Materials: Multicultural Lesson Plans

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Twelve teacher-tested lesson plans to integrate art from around the world into your classroom. Each activity comes with a list of materials you'll need, easy-to-follow explanations, and examples.
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Lin and Don Donn

Lin and Don Donn: u.s. History Lessons: Immigration

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This personal site provides a list of links and lesson plans related to immigration up to the current time.
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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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Lin and Don Donn

Lin and Don Donn: u.s. History Lessons: Holidays: Kwanzaa

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Site provides brief background information about Kwanzaa but is primarily a repository of lesson plan ideas, games and clip art.
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Teach 21: Tell Me a Tale (Unit Plan)

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This fourteen lesson unit investigates reading and English language arts at a fifth grade level. The lessons display differences and similarities of cultures. The unit incorporates 21st century learning skills such as communication,...
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Story Arts:storytelling Activities & Lesson Ideas

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Use this site to get pupils interested in and enthusiastic about storytelling with these cool lesson ideas. Look through these short descriptions of lesson ideas to help develop a lesson to fit your classroom needs.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Variations in Plot and Setting

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Although Disney's version of Cinderella is most popular in America, hundreds of versions exist across many cultures. This resource provides lessons, which examine the similarities and differences in literary elements among many versions...
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Peace Corps

Peace Corps: Looking at Ourselves and Others

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Adapted lesson plans, used by the Peace Corps to prepare their volunteers, are divided into three suggested grade grouping: 3-5, 6-9, 10-12. These activities introduce students to the concepts of perspective, culture, and cross-cultural...
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Learning for Justice

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A website aimed at teachers, parents, and students on ways to combat hateful words and actions. Teaching kids about tolerance is part of many curriculum units across many grades; this site has separate sections tailored to grade specific...
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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 students understand and even create their own myth, folktale, or fairy tale.
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Scholastic: Discussion Guide to the Novels of Pam Munoz Ryan

For Teachers 5th - 8th
This lesson plan site shares discussion guides for three books written by Pam Munoz Ryan. The discussion guides may be used with Esperanza Rising, Riding Freedom, and Becoming Naomi Leon.
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Building Community in the Classroom (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Exercise in which participants introduce themselves by sharing information about their ethnicities and backgrounds, highlighting the similarity and diversity among members of the class.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Multicultural Math Fair: Navajo Burntwater Designs

For Students 3rd - 8th
Simple instructional activity designed to help students learn the geometric concepts of translation, reflection, and symmetry by creating Navajo weaving patterns. Includes templates and instructions and is available in English and...
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Multicultural Math Fair: Sonya's Symmetry

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Straightforward lesson plan designed to introduce students to symmetry and reflection using MIRA mirrors. Includes two worksheets--instructions and activities are available in English and Spanish.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Multicultural Math Fair: Srinivasa's Spheres

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Straightforward instructional activity that introduces students to pi by letting them measure real objects and solve a challenge problem. Includes instructions and a "Data Sheet" for keeping track of measurements. Available in English...
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American Girl: For Parents & Teachers

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Meet the characters of Valerie Tripp's American Girl series, and learn cultural lessons through this collection of worksheets and guides (PDF, require Adobe Reader). Resources cover a variety of social issues including bullying,...
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Art Teacher on the Net: Art of Many Lands

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Dozens of resources for lessons and projects based on the art of various cultures. Included are ideas for Africa, France, America, Russia, India, and Australia.
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A Small Tall Tale From the Far Far North, by Peter Sis [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This lesson plan is for the book A Small Tall Tale from the Far Far North and is designed for students in grades 2?4. Teachers can use the ideas here for history, literature, art, social studies, geography, research skills, and to spark...
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Jewish Museum

Jewish Museum: Examining Identity in Contemporary Art and Photography [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This website contains photographs of many in the multicultural community of Jews in the United States. There are discussion questions and cross-curricular links for integration of culture into your curriculum. A glossary is also included.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Walter Dean Myers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Web English Teacher helps you to discover the world of author Walter Dean Myers. This resource features lesson plans for "Fallen Angels" and several other books.
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Reading Is Fundamental

Rif: Booklists: The Pirate of Kindergarten

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site features a description of George Ella Lyon's children's book entitled The Pirate of Kindergarten. A lesson plan and related activities are included for this book about a little girl who faces vision problems and must overcome...
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Choices Program, Brown University

The Choices Program: History and Current Events

For Students 9th - 10th
This page engages students in international issues. Curricular resources and instructional programs bring international public policy to life. Students engage in research and high-level thinking activities that revolve around what is in...
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Sacred Text Archive

Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends by "Aunt Naomi"

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the index page to the full text of a vivid collecton of Jewish folklore that entertains and teaches. This book, originally published in 1919, is based on tales from the Talmud and Midrash. While some of the themes are familiar...
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For Students Pre-K - 1st
Twelve teacher-tested lesson plans to integrate art from around the world into your classroom. Each activity comes with a list of materials you'll need, easy-to-follow explanations, and examples.

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