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The heritage project combines research with several ways to share learning. Students trace a family line, organize a six-paragraph culture essay, prepare a tri-fold display with four representative items and present at a cultural fair. The parent letter, draft outline and rubric help teachers explain the assignment and schedule preparation before fair day.
A bundle of community-helpers resources for a social studies unit: a differentiated emergent reader, a journal/activity workbook, and stick-puppet craft templates.
Children make a paper house that opens to reveal a drawing of their family. Two house-front options offer different door styles, with a personalized label area and directions for coloring, cutting, folding and gluing. Let learners choose the version before assembly and invite them to describe only the details from their drawing they wish to share.
Character-education practice book teaching Pre-K/Kindergarten students respect, responsibility, citizenship, and manners skills.
Activity booklet guiding students through exploring family history, traditions, and heritage via hands-on games, crafts, and interview/research activities, structured in a troop-meeting format working toward a 'My Family Story' badge
An early-learning geography activity where a child fills in a series of nested circles representing planet, continent, country, state, city, street address, and their own name to build understanding of geographic location.
One thing that builds classroom community amongst students is allowing them to share about themselves. As teachers, we often do this at the start of the school year. All About Me worksheets are usually the focus and then we don’t spend much else time on intentionally allowing students to share who they are. If you want to give students…
A bingo game for practicing recognition of community-helper occupation names/vocabulary as part of social studies/career exploration.
Students create a poster about a country and its culture using labeled spaces for an outline, flag, greeting, food, traditions and places. A completed U.S.A. example shows how the panels can be filled with drawing and writing. Plain, International Week and Culture Day versions offer different headings, while the longer-prompt version invites students to explain personal connections and preferences.
A social studies lesson teaching cultural concepts (culture, subcultures, cultural diffusion/assimilation, ethnocentrism, cultural relativism, globalization) through a slideshow plus the Barnga cross-cultural card game simulation.
Introduce students to the concept of culture and the difficulty of cross-cultural exchange using a simplified card game (Barnga) plus supporting note-taking and presentation materials.
Introduce young learners to the seven continents, oceans, and basic map skills using songs and videos.
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A world-cultures arts-and-crafts packet offering a themed craft or drawing project for each of several countries, connecting art-making to that country's culture, traditions, or history.
A collection of 30 leveled early-reading passages (Levels C-I) that pair beginning-reader phonics/sight-word practice with short social studies topics (US civics, history figures, holidays, geography terms).
Activity for practicing directional concepts (left, right, up, down) through a grid-navigation task.
A multi-week nonfiction research project in which students research a country other than the United States and build a booth exhibit for a class-hosted 'International Festival,' assessed across reading, writing, social studies, and speaking/listening.
A cultural-studies sub-plan/lesson that teaches grades 4-7 students about the Mexican holiday Día de los Muertos and compares it with the Hindu Shradh (Pitru Paksha) tradition, combining reading comprehension, discussion, and a craft activity.
A 5-lesson thematic unit teaching young students about diversity (ancestry/heritage, skin color, physical disabilities, and language) with differentiated activities for K-1 and grades 2-3.
Have students research a country's art, culture, and music and present it through a self-designed multi-phase project.
A 120-minute elementary lesson plan teaching what Mardi Gras is, its colors/traditions/foods, and its cultural and religious origins, combining direct instruction with hands-on crafts.
Introduce children to the Seven Grandfather Teachings of Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) culture - honesty, respect, bravery, love, truth, wisdom, humility - by pairing each teaching with an animal, a yoga pose, and a spoken affirmation.
A full-day set of substitute teacher lesson plans on the theme of cultural diversity for 5th/6th grade.
A themed word search worksheet activity introducing vocabulary related to Asian American / Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.