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Collections/ General Multicultural Lesson
Plans and Resources
Diversity
Council Lesson Plans and Activities
Many lesson plans organized by grade level.
Lesson Plans: Multicultural Awareness
Scroll down to the bottom of the page to find a large number of
lesson plans organized by grade level and subject.
Multicultural Lesson Plans - Ontario Curriculum
From the Thunder Bay Multicultural Association, they obviously
have a Canadian emphasis.
"Unite the School" Lesson
Plan
This is an interesting
interdisciplinary lesson
plan celebrating diversity.
America: A
Home for Every Culture
A lesson plan
for grades 3-4 consisting of ten 45-minute sessions.
Commonality
in Diversity
A WebQuest
for the secondary grades. See also
Immigration and
Cultural Diversity WebQuest.
Multicultural Lessons
Three lesson plans
provided as examples of curriculum integration of
multiculturalism in the classroom
Multicultural Pavilion
Provides a working
definition, original essays and articles,
a teacher's corner with classroom activities
and resources, as well as links to a variety of
multicultural sites.
Multicultural Education
Lesson plans from Mr. Donn including their original lesson plan.,
What Is Culture?
Changing Attitudes in America
Contains six lesson
plans related to racism as well as
a great deal of background information.
EDSITEment
Interesting lesson plans in a variety of subjects. Though
not all the lesson plans are multicultural,
they do all seem to be of high quality. Perhaps
a good source for holistic education ideas.
Multicultural Calendar
A calendar of holidays and events celebrated around the
world.
Teaching Tolerance
Classroom Activities from Tolerance.org
Many excellent activities for a variety of subjects
and lesson plans.
Five lesson ideas from Education World. See Teaching Tolerance: Additional Resources for a list of links to additional lesson plans.
Teaching Tolerance ~ Lesson Plans
Several lesson plans for a variety of grade levels from One World, One Heart Beating.
Tolerance Lessons and Materials
From the Tolerance Projsct.
Art Activities
and Lesson Plans for Exploring Tolerance
A long list.
An Approach to Teaching Religious Tolerance
A high school lesson plan.
Teaching
Tolerance and Diversity
A middle-school lesson plan using The
Diary of Anne Frank.
Understanding Stereotypes
A lesson plan for grades 9-12 from
Discovery Education.
Discrimination
A 6th-grade lesson plan from the
Social Studies School Service.
Multicultural Art Lessons
Melissa's Myriad
Scroll down the page to
find many art lesson plans
including some that are multicultural.
Multicultural Lesson Plans
Art lesson plans from Blick
Art Materials.
Multicultural Art
Lesson plans from the Huntsville City Schools.
Multicultural Art and Craft
Lesson Plans and Activities
From Kinder Art.
Art Activities
and Lesson Plans for Exploring Tolerance
A long list.
Language through Art
An ESL curriculum.
Romare Bearden-Style Collages
An art lesson plan based on the work of African American
artist
Romare Bearden.
Islamic Foil Art
This art activity, which is appropriate for many grade
levels, may be just what you need for your
multidisciplinary unit on Islam.
Sketches of the South Pacific: Multicultural Art Lesson
A middle-grade lesson plan from
Bright Hub Education.
Textured Pottery Using Self-Hardening Clay and Multicultural Designs
Using Aboriginal, Asian, Islamic, and Pre-Columbian Patterns
A lesson plan from
AMACO Products.
Japan: Images of People
A unit designed to help students understand Japanese painting
and culture.
Multicultural Literature/Language Arts Lessons
K-5 Language Arts Multicultural Education Curriculum Matrix
Lesson plans
from the School District of Palm Beech County Florida. See also their lesson
plans for
grades 6-8 and
9-12.
Global Diversity
Through Literature
A primary-grade lesson plan.
Examining African-American
Culture Through the Use of Children’s
Literature
A 3rd-grade unit plan.
America The Beautiful! :
Lesson Plan Using Multicultural Literature
A 3rd-grade lesson plan.
Rosa Parks
An on-line interview as well as lesson plans and resources.
Ruby Bridges
A 2nd or 3rd-grade unit on
Ruby Bridges
and her contributions to
the Civil Rights movement using Robert Coles'
The Story of Ruby Bridges.
Multicultural
Literature and Social Studies
A 3rd-grade lesson plan.
Opening Doors to Social Studies
with Children's Literature: Take a Seat or
Get off the Bus
A unit for 5th-grade using the book
Mississippi Bridge
by Mildred D. Taylor.
Teaching
Tolerance and Diversity
A middle-school lesson plan using The
Diary of Anne Frank.
Teaching
Multicultural Literature in High School
Many interesting lesson plans from
Annenberg Learner.
Similarities Between African
Folktales and French Folktales
A unit for grades 7-12.
Understanding Hispanic/Latino
Culture and History Through Children’s
Literature
An elaborate unit plan with three sample lesson plans
and a bibliography.
Puerto Rican Folktales
A unit for grades 7-12.
The
House on Mango Street
A Teacher's Guide from Random House. See also Sandra
Cisneros@Web English Teacher for other lesson plans for this author.
Changing
Borders
Examining emigration form Europe
as well as Asia, this unit uses Coming
to America by
Betsy Maestro,
How Many Days To America by
Eve Bunting,
and The Long Way
To A New Land
by Joan Sandin.
Women in Traditional China
and their Portrayal in Chinese Folktales
A unit for grades 10-12.
Heroes and Heroines in the
Family
A grade 7-8 unit on American Indian, European, Puerto
Rican, Afro-American and
American tales showing the students the common themes
and the universal affirmation of man’s ability
to accomplish great feats by using a great
deal of brain power and some brawn.
Stories Around the World in Film and Literature
Ten units from the
Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
Teaching Responsibility to Children of Different Cultures through
Film and Literature Stories
A 4th-grade unit from the above site.
Race
and Ethnicity in Contemporary Art and Literature
Eleven Units from the
Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
Expanding Fifth Grade Ethnic
Awareness Through Literature
A unit on Native American and Latino literature from the
Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
American Girls Through Time
and Trial
An elementary unit focusing on women of different cultures,
races, and religions. It includes three
books featuring diverse American women
from specific time periods.
Twentieth Century Latin American
Writing
A collection of units for middle school and high school.
Crossing the Border: A Study
of Immigration Through Literature
A unit for grades 6-8.
See also
Children's Literature
for many multicultural literature
lesson plans.
Multicultural Math Activities
Frisbie's Multicultural
Math Fair
From Frisbie Middle School, this site provides information
about this event as well as specific information
about each learning station. See
Multicultural Fair 1999-2000
for descriptions of additional
activities.
Multicultural Math:
Lessons from the Mayas
Lesson plans, resources, online activities, and printables from NEA.
Maya Mathematics
Information on the
Mayan number system.
Egyptian Hieroglyphics
A 5th-grade lesson plan from the School District of Palm Beach County,
Florida. See their
4th-grade multicultural math curriculum.
Mathematicians and Scientists
Treasure Hunt
A grade 7-12 activity designed to help students learn
about a mathematician or scientist
who happens to be female or a person of color.
Marlys Henke's Cultural Relevance
Model
Seven lesson plans
developed by Marlys Henke, an award-winning
math teacher from St. Paul, that incorporate
the contributions of diverse cultures and people
into the regular math curriculum.
Multicultural Math Lessons
Five lesson plans created
by Patricia Donovan.
Classroom Activities: Culturally Diverse Lesson Plans
Two interesting activities including Sweat Shop Math!
Geometric
Art
A lesson plan examining Islamic mathematics and its relationship to modern
mathematics.
Money Makes the World Go Around
A 3rd-grade lesson plan from Core
Knowledge.
Minorities and Mathematics
Information from Math
Forum.
Diversity in Mathematics: Census Statistics in Utah
A pre-Algebra lesson plan.
Mathematicians of the African
Diaspora
Information on mathematicians
of African descent.
Play Mancala
An African math game.
See also
Mancala
for another online version
of this game.
Ancient Egyptian Mathematics
An activity dealing
with the calculation of pi.
See also
Egyptian Fractions,
An Odd Egyptian Puzzle,
and
Hypatia of Alexandria.
Native American Geometry
Information and resources
for teachers.
Mathematics in China
An annotated timeline
and a chronology of Chinese
mathematicians and mathematical works.
The Abacus
An award-winning site
with history, instructions for
using an abacus, etc.
Symmetry and Pattern: The
Art of Oriental Carpets
Information, a gallery,
and instructional activities.
Click on
Educational Resources
to find the activities.
Aztec Calendar
All sorts of information.
Teaching Mathematics Using a Multicultural Approach
A concise and informative article.
Women in Mathematics
You won't find lesson
plans at this site, but you will find an extensive
list of links to sites having to do with
women and math
Multicultural Music Lessons and Resources
Pick a Peck of Multicultural Music Lesson Plans
Several lesson plans from the National
Association of Music Education.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Fifty-plus music lesson plans, many of which have multicultural
elements.
Multicultural Music
Multicultural songs from
Songs for Teaching.
Comparing Native American and American Folk Music:
Grass Dance Song
An elementary lesson plan exploring
how aspects of Native American and American
folk music are alike and different.
The Clave Rhythm
A lesson plan for the elementary grades.
Music in Africa
A 2nd-grade lesson plan. See also
Exploring African Music and
African Music for similar lesson plans.
Spirituals
A high school lesson plan introducing studenst to the
role that spirituals have played in African American history and religion.
Musical Harlem
A K-4 lesson
plan in which students learn to identify musical forms
and musicians associated with Harlem.
What Does this
Song Really Say
Another K-4
lesson plan focusing on African-American spirituals.
Music as Social
Protest
A lesson plan from PBS.
Roots of
Rock
A lesson plan for grades 5-8 in which students
discover the common
element of rhythm in multi-cultural and rock music.
Blues Impulse
Eleven Units from the
Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
Jazz Lesson Plans
Five elementary lesson plans from PBS.
Music
in the South Pacific
An 8th-grade lesson plan.
Wild Sounds from South of the Border
Another 8th-grade lesson plan.
Multicultural Science Lessons and Resources
Alaska
Native Knowledge Network
Science units based on native ways of knowing. See their
new Handbook for Culturally Responsive Science
Curriculum.
A Multicultural
Approach to Teaching a Science Lesson
A lesson plan for grades 9-12 in which students learn about Earnest
Just and do an activity based on his work.
What
Makes a House a House?
A lesson plan for grades 2-3 in which students develop an
understanding how the environment
influences home design. See also
Homes Around the World
for a 1st-grade
WebQuest.
Second-Grade Science Lesson Plan - Dian Fossey
A lesson plan about Dian Fossey, who studied Gorillas.
Using Multicultural
Literature with Science
An Internet-based elementary lesson plan.
Myths, Legends, and Moon Phases
A multidisciplinary lesson plan for upper-elementary or
middle school from
New Horizons for Learning.
Environmental Racism
A lesson plan for grades 11-12.
Lead Contamination in Our Environment
A middle school unit.
Women in Science
A high school lesson plan from Education World. .
Hispanic/Latino Astronauts
A 5th-grade lesson plan focusing on the contributions
of Hispanic astronauts and planetary characteristics.
The First African American Woman in Space
A 7th-grade lesson plan.
African American Inventors
A lesson plan from Suite101.com.
African American Scientists
An Internet-based lesson plan for grades 5-8. See also
African Americans in Science.
Multicultural Social Studies Lessons and
Resources
(Additional lesson plans are listed on
the
Social Studies Page)
K-5 Social Studies Multicultural Curriculum Matrix
Lesson plans from the School District of Palm Beech County Florida. See also
their lesson plans for
grades 6-8 and
9-12.
Human Rights Lesson Plans
Several elementary lesson plans from Universal Voices
Online Human Rights Internet Guide.
Multicultural
Day/International Market
An elementary-grade lesson plan.
Multicultural
Literature and Social Studies
A 3rd-grade lesson plan.
Making a Multicultural
Brochure
A middle-grade activity.
Holidays Around the World
Lesson plans from Education World.
Columbus Day: Native American
Perspective
A lesson plan for 4th/5th grade.
Exploring Native Americans Across the Curriculum
Information and ideas for activities from
Education World.
Revisiting Pocahontas
A middle-grade or high school unit in which students engage
in a critique of the historical and cultural
accuracy of the Walt Disney film, "Pocahontas."
Understanding Treaties: Students Explore the Lives of Yakama People Before
and After Treaties
A lesson plan from the Washington State Historical Society.
The Fight for Equal Rights:
Black Soldiers in the Civil War
A lesson plan using historical documents available via
the Internet.
After Reconstruction: Problems
of African Americans in the South
A lesson plan from the Library of Congress using the Internet to access pamphlets and
other materials, most of which
were written by African American authors about
pressing issues of the day. See
other lesson plans from this source.
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B.
Dubois
A unit on the issues raised by the celebrated debate between
two famous African American leaders: Booker
T. Washington and W. E. B. DuBois.
Have Minorities Gained Acceptance?
A lesson plan in which students research and discuss the
impact of the Civil Rights Movement.
"Hispanic Celebration" Lesson
Plan
This is an interesting
lesson with many links and resources.
Cinco de Mayo
Lesson plans,
activities, and thematic units.
Delores Huerta
A mini-unit for the intermediate grades on this Mexican-American
labor activist. See also
Lessons on Delores Huerta.
Affidavit and Flyers from the Chinese Boycott Case
A lesson plan using historic documents
from the National Archives
- Teaching with Documents.
Japanese-American Internment
A high school
lesson plan. See also
Letters from the Japanese Internment,
Japanese Relocation and Internment During World War II,
and
Japanese American Internment for other lesson plans.
WW II: The Other Americans
A multicultural World War II lesson plan I developed as
an example for my students.
Women
4000 Years of Women in Science
Great site for information
on women in science.
Women in Science
A high school lesson plan from Education World.
Women in Math
A lesson plan for grades 9-12.
Women's
History Month Lesson Plans
Many lesson plans from the Lesson Plans Page. See also
Education World Women's History Month Lesson Plans and Activities.
Women in World History Curriculum
Sample lesson plans
for women's history.
Changing Gender Roles on the Home Front
A middle/high school lesson plan from
Smithsonian
Education. See also
Women's History Teaching Resources.
Gender Stereotyping
An activity for grades 7-9 from Tolerance.org.
Susan B. Anthony Day
A grade 3-4 mini-unit for celebrating Susan B. Anthony
Day (February 15).
Click here
for a grade 4-5 lesson plan
on Susan B. Anthony.
The Nineteenth Amendment
A lesson plan for grades 9-12.
Cultural Change
A high-quality lesson plan for grades 10-12 from
EDSITEment. See also
Women's Suffrage: Why the West Went First,
Voting Rights for Women: Pro- and Anti-Suffrage,
Who Were the Foremothers of Women's Equality, and
Women's Equality: Changing Attitudes and Beliefs for more lesson plans
from EDSITEment.
WWWomen.com
Links to sites about
women and women's issues.
Hispanics
Cultural Aspects of Spanish
in America
A unit for secondary Spanish language teachers.
New Movements For Social Justice:
The Latino Struggle for Equal Rights
An elaborate high school unit.
Twentieth Century Latin American Writing
Ten more units from the 1997 Yale-New Haven
Teachers Institute.
Hispanic Immigration: America
in the Year 2000
A high school unit.
Famous Hispanic Americans
A WebQuest for
ESL students.
The Hispanic World
A Internet-based unit for intermediate grades and up in
which students explore Spanish-speaking countries.
"Hispanic Celebration" Lesson
Plan
This is an interesting
lesson with many links and resources.
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month
Information and ideas for activities from Education World. See also
Hispanic Heritage Teaching Resources from Smithsonian Education.
The House on
Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros)
Teacher's Guide from Vintage Books. Also, see
Understanding
Hispanic/Latino Culture and History
Through Children’s Literature.
Crossing the Border: A Study
of Immigration through Literature
A middle school or
high school unit.
Who is Who in the Hispanic Web
An alphabetical Director.
Black History Month/African Americans (Additional
lesson plans are listed on
History
Lesson Plans and Resources)
African American History
and Heritage Site
Many resources for
African-American history including a
Teacher Toolkit for Grades
K-12.
See also
Black History Pages.
Association for
the Study of African American History and Life
From the founders of Black History Month,
this link takes you to their home page and provides a link to the
2012 National
Black History Theme. See themes
for
Past, Present, and Future National Black History Month
Themes.
Lessons
to Celebrate Black History Month
From Education World.
Black
History Month
New resources and activities from
Edsitement.
Teacher's Guide:
Black History Month
Many links from the University of Illinois Extension
Spirituals
A high school lesson plan from the above site introducing students to
the role that spirituals have played in African American
history and religion.
Stories to Tell: Curating a Black History Museum
Lesson plan from the NY Times.
African American Inventors
A lesson plan from Suite101.com.
Spirituals
A high school lesson plan introducing studenst to the
role that spirituals have played in African American history and religion.
The Civil Rights Movement
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from The
Discovery Channel School. See also
Learning to Respect Each Other for a K-5 lesson and
Civil Rights: An Investigation
for a high school lesson plan.
Teaching with
Documents: The Civil Rights Act of 1964
and the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission
This
excellent lesson plan from the NARA Digital
Classroom uses historical documents available on this site.
American Educational History:
A Hypertext Timeline
My latest Web project, this annotated,
clickable timeline of American educational
history extends from 1607 to the 21st Century.
See the accompanying activity,
American Educational History: What's Most
Important?
The Amistad Case: Teaching
Activities
A lesson plan that correlates to the National Standards
for History. See also
Teaching with Documents: The Amistad Case.
Learn About Slavery
A teaching/learning module from Digital History. See also
Slavery,
African Diaspora,
and
The Atlantic Slave Trade
and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record.
Harriet Tubman and the Underground
Railroad
A timeline, quiz, sketches, crossword puzzles, etc. all
put together by a 2nd-grade class!
Click on
Classroom Activities
to access lesson plans and
units on Harriet Tubman from a variety
of sources.
After Reconstruction: Problems
of African Americans in the South
A lesson plan using the Internet to access pamphlets and other
materials, most of which were
written by African American authors about pressing
issues of the day. See also
Slavery in the United States: Primary Sources and the Historical Record
for another lesson plan from the same source.
George Washington Carver
A 3rd or 4th-grade unit.
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B.
Dubois
A unit on the issues raised by the celebrated debate between
two famous African American leaders:
Booker T. Washington
and
W. E. B. DuBois.
Harlem Renaissance Retrospective
A lesson plan for grades 9-12 examining this era between
1917-1935 which redefined African American expression
on all levels.
Sojourner Truth
A mini-unit for grades 4-5 about this woman who was the
first prominent African-American
directly associated with the women's suffrage
movement
Unforgiveable Blackness
An excellent video about Jack Johnson, the first Black
prizefighter..
Mary McLeod Bethune
A mini-unit for grades 4-5 on this African-American educator.
Famous Person: Andrew Young
A mini-unit for grades 4-5.
From Jim Crow To Linda Brown
An elaborate lesson involving a study of the famous court
case, Plessy v. Ferguson (1897); a
simulation of the Afro-American Council Meeting
in 1898 using African American Perspectives:
Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection,
1818-1907; and the creation of a similar meeting
of the Afro-American Council prior to the landmark
Brown v. the Board of Education case in 1954.
Teaching with Documents:
Documents Related to Brown
versus the Board of Education
From the National Archives,
this lesson plan uses historical documents available online. See also
Order of Argument in the
Case Brown v. Board
and
Dorothy Davis, et al, versus
County School Board of Prince Edward County, Virginia
for two more lesson plans using historical documents.
Brown v. Board: Where Are We Now?
Information and teaching activities from Tolerance.org.
A collaborative webquest on integration in schools. See also Little Rock Nine: Activities.
Tuskegee Tragedy
A WebQuest exploring this exploring this dark medical experiment
and its
victims.
Mosaic America: Patterns of
Racism
A 7th-grade unit. For other similar units see
Racism and Nativism in American Political Culture.
Lesson Plans and Resources
for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
A long list of lesson plans from my
History Page.
Institute for Urban and Minority Education
Information about teaching
urban and minority students.
Civil Rights
Historic Places of the Civil Rights
Movement
From the National Register of Historic Places, this page
would be an excellent resource for putting together
a WebQuest on the civil rights movement.
The Civil Rights Movement
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from The
Discovery Channel School. See also
Learning to Respect Each Other for a K-5 lesson and
Civil Rights: An Investigation
for a high school lesson plan.
Teaching with
Documents: The Civil Rights Act of 1964
and the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission
This
excellent lesson plan from the NARA Digital
Classroom uses historical documents available on this site.
A collaborative webquest on integration in schools. See also Little Rock Nine: Activities.
Tuskegee Tragedy
A WebQuest exploring this exploring this dark medical experiment
and its
victims.
Jackie Robinson, Civil Rights Advocate
Information, documents,
and lesson plans about Jackie Robinson's
role in the Civil Rights movement. Scroll
down the page for the lesson plans.
Documents Related to Brown v. Board of Education
An excellent lesson plan using historic
documents the National Archives that are available online.
See
Order of Argument in the Case, Brown v.
Board,
Brown v. Board: What It Means Today,
and
Frontiers in Civil Rights: Dorothy E. Davis et
al versus County School Board. of Prince Edward County, VA.
Civil Rights Movement Unit
Excellent 5-lesson unit for high school students that
uses primary sources of information.
US Civil Rights in the 1960s
Unit plan for US history grades 10-12. Consists of 16
lesson plans.
Famous Person: Rosa Louis
Parks
A unit for grades 3 or 4 using
The Story of Ruby Bridges.
See also
An Act of Courage, The Arrest Records of
Rosa Parks
for a lesson plan using historic documents
and Rosa Parks:
How I Fought for Civil Rights.
Before Rosa Parks
A high school lesson plan from Tolerance.org.
See
Classroom Activities
for similar lessons for middle and elementary
grades.
Ruby Bridges
A 2nd or 3rd-grade unit on
Ruby Bridges
and her contributions to
the Civil Rights movement.
Opening Doors to Social Studies
with Children's Literature: Take Seat or
Get off the Bus
A unit for 5th-grade using the book
Mississippi Bridge
by Mildred D. Taylor.
Lesson Plans and Resources
for Martin Luther King, Jr.
A long list of lesson plans from my
History Lesson Plans Page.
Timeline of Selected Events
of the Civil Rights Movement
From the Greensboro Sit-Ins
Page.
National Civil Rights Museum
See their Teacher Resources.
Gay/Lesbian/Sexual Preference
Is Your School Homophobic?
Take this quiz to find out.
GLSEN Educator Library
Many resources regarding
gay/lesbian issues for teachers including the high school lesson
plan,
"What do 'Faggot and 'Dyke' Mean."
See their
other lesson plans.
At Issue: Mariage
- Exploring the Debate Over Rights for Same-Sex Couples
Six lesson plans
and a curriculum guide from GLSEN.
Constitutional Ammendments
and Gay Marriage
A discussion-based hgh
school lesson plan utilizing online background documents.
A lesson plan for grades K-6.
Stonewall and Beyond: Gay and Lesbian Issues
A lesson plan for grades 9-12 focusing on issues related to the quest for gay and lesbian equal rights.
The Rights of Passage for Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Teenagers
A unit in pdf format for grades 9-12 that examines the coming-of-age experiences of straight, gay, and lesbian youth.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights: A Human Rights Perspective
A curriculum with nine lesson plans from the Human Rights Resource Center.
Gender Variance
An interesting lesson plan from the U.K for students 15 and up designed to teach students about the diversity of human sex and gender.
Asians
Asian Pacific American Heritage Teaching Resources
From the Smithsonian.
May is Asian American Heritage Month
Lesson plans, articles, and resources from Scholastic. See also Asian American History Teacher's Guide.
Lon Po Po: A Chinese Fairy Tale
An elementary-grade lesson plan from the above site.
Dream in Color - Asian American Heritage in the Classroom
Lesson plans for a variety of grade levels from the Asian Pacific Fund.
Asian Pacific Heritage Month is May!
Information and classroom activities from Read-Write-Think.
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
Lesson plans and resources from the Lesson Plans Page.
Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
More lesson plans and resources from Education World.
Hmong Culture
From the Saint Paul, MN Public Library. See also WWW Hmong Home Page.
Ties that Bind Folk Art Lesson Plan
A lesson plan for grades 2 and above in which students learn about Hmong history and culture.
Hmong Among Us
A lesson plan for grades 6-12 from the N.Y. Daily Times.
Among the Hmong
One lesson plan from using the PBS series "Postcards from Buster." Go to the Teacher's Guide and other lesson plans.
Hmong Struggle
A high school lesson plan from the Wisconsin Historical Society which uses primary documents to help students learn about Hmong immigration to Wisconsin. See also Oral History Training for the Hmong Oral History Project.
The Hmong in Our Midst
A resource for ELT classrooms.
Teaching Hmong History And Culture Through Story Cloths
See also Dia's Story Cloth: The Hmong People's Journey to Freedom and Stories in Quilts.
The Hmong People in America
Historical information and a long list of links.
See also The
Hmong People - Who Are They?
Asia
Society Resources for Schools
Resources and lesson plans (both
elementary and
secondary) for learning about Asia and Asian
Americans.
Chinese Inventions
An elementary lesson plan from the above site.
Asian Indian Immigration
A 10-lesson 4th-grade unit exploring the concept of immigration
through the in-depth study of Indian
immigrants and their effect on the culture
of the United States.
In the Year of the
Boar and Jackie Robinson
A 5th-grade lesson plan using this book about an immigrant Chinese girl by
Bette Bao Lord.
Japanese-American Internment
A high school lesson plan. See also
Japanese-American Internment
for another secondary lesson plan.
Yushiko Uchida
An elementary unit on Japanese culture and how it influenced
the life of Yushiko Uchida, a Japanese-American
author of The Bracelet.
Click here
for a 5th-grade lesson plan
using this book.
Culture of Japan
Links.
Discovering
Angel Island: The
Story Behind the Poems
Lesson plan units were developed to work with the video-short
Discovering Angel Island: The Story Behind the Poems. See also Central Pacific Railroad
Photographic History Museum,
which tells the story of
the Central Pacific Railroad (which was
built almost entirely through the labor of
Chinese immigrants).
Immigration
Immigration Lesson Plans and
Resources
Many lesson plans from
my
Social Studies Page.
The Immigrant
Experience in America
A lesson plan
for grades 5-8.
A Nation of Immigrants
This 11th-grade lesson plan from CUNY explores the Immigration Act of 1965. For more
information on this important legislation, see
Immigration & Naturalization Act of 1965: Origin of Modern American Society.
See also
A Nation of Immigrants: Immigration Act of 1924,
Immigration Access/Legality, and
Race and Immigration for other lesson plans from this unit as well
as
A Nation of Immigrants - Curriculum to access additional lesson
plans from CUNY.
Immigration Oral History
A lesson plan in which students
conduct interviews to gather first-hand stories about immigrant
experiences.
Immigration Resources
Lesson plans for a variety
of grade levels from the American Immigration
Law Foundation.
National Discussion and Debate Series: Immigration
A "packet" providing a variety of activities to help students gain the
knowledge and background necessary to engage in a meaningful debate about
immigration policies and issues.
American Immigration Past and Present
A simulation activity.
New Kids on the Block
A 7th-grade lesson plan on teen immigrants and the difficulties they sometimes have transitioning into American culture.
Immigration:
Stories of Yesterday and Today
An online activity
complete with a teacher's guide.
Hispanic Immigration: America
in the Year 2000
A high school unit.
Ellis Island
A unit and electronic field
trip for intermediate, middle, or high
school students.
German Immigrants: Their Contributions
to the Upper Midwest
A lesson plan in which students
answer questions and practice their German
while viewing photographs and documents
from the
American
Memory
of the Library of Congress.
Where I Come From
A high-quality 5th-grade
lesson plan.
Homelessness/Refugees
Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless -
Curriculum
Information and lesson plans for grades K-8.
See also National
Coalition for the Homeless
for additional information
and resources and the
Homeless Education Learning Page
for personal stories, expressions,
history, causes, and solutions.
Homeless Education Services - Title I
Scroll down the page to find lesson plans for all grades.
Ending Homelessness
A lesson plan for grades 9-12.
Stereotypes about Homelessness
A discussion-based lesson plan for grades 6-12.
A Day in
the Life of a Homeless Person
A lesson plan for grades 3-5 from Learning to Give.
Homelessness in Our Community
A four-day lesson plan for grade 3.
Maniac Magee
A Novel Guide from Class Zone. See also
Sample Unit:
The Legend of Maniac Magee.
Jane Addams
A mini-unit connecting the historic work of Jane Addams
to the current issue of homelessness
in America.
Human Rights and Refugees
Many lesson plans from the
UNHCR. See also
The
Rights of Refugees.
Lesson Plan on Refugees
From the United Nations. See also
Geography: Refugees - Who,
Where, and Why? for a lesson plan from the UNHCR.
Learning Resources
Five lesson plans from Doctors without Borders designed to help students
understand the challenges 42 million refugees and internally displaced
people face worldwide.
Lesson Plan on Refugee Children
One lesson plan from
Human Rights Education Associates.
Refugees and Children in Our World
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from
Learning to Give.
The Status
and Rights of Refugees
A lesson plan from
Amnesty International USA.
Through the Eyes of Refugee
A high school lesson plan. See also
The Challenges of Refugee Resettlement for another high school lesson
plan.
Teenage Refugees: Comparing Life Experiences
A high school lesson plan from
Beyond the Fire
in which students
fill out a chart comparing the experiences
of teen war refugees with their own experiences, and
then use the chart as the basis for writing essays
or for group discussions and presentations.
See
Child Soldiers
for another lesson plan from this same source.
Native Americans
Exploring
Native Americans Across the Curriculum
Information and Activities from Education World.
See also
Activities to Celebrate Native American Heritage.
Native American Heritage Month
High quality lesson plans from EDSITEment. See the lesson plans in the
right-side index.
American Indian Heritage Teaching Resources
From the Smithsonian!
November is National American Indian Heritage Month
Resources and lesson plans from Read-Write-Think.
Native American and Alaska Native Heritage Month, Grades K-5
From NEA. See also
Grades 6-8 and
Grades 9-12.
Native American
Lessons and Units
A long list of Native American lessons and units from Mr. Donn's site.
Native
American Heritage Month
Resources for teachers. See also
Native American Heritage Month
from Thinfinity.
Traditions
and Languages of Three Native Cultures: Tlingit, Lakota, and Cherokee
A high-quality lesson plan in which students understand the importance of
maintaining the traditions and languages of native cultures, they also learn
to say a few words in each of the above languages.
Bison: Their Influence on World Cultures
Interesting site on Bison and the Plains Indians complete with lesson
plans.
Trails of Understanding:
The Earliest Immigrants
A middle-grade lesson plan examining theories about the origins of the first
inhabitants of North America.
Yours and My Trail of Tears
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from Education World. See also
The Trail of Tears;
Its Grief and Loss
for a 5th-grade lesson plan and
Trail of Tears Lesson Plan (4th grade).
Revisiting Pocahontas
A middle-grade or high school unit in which students engage in a critique
of the historical and cultural accuracy of the Walt Disney film,
"Pocahontas."
Columbus Day: Native American Perspective
A lesson plan for 4th/5th grade.
First Nations Land Treaties
A lesson plan for grades 7-8.
The Indian Removal Act
A high school lesson plan from
Digital History.
Native
Americans in the Natural World
A WebQuest. See also
Native American WebQuest.
Native Tech
An excellent site with resources and
information about many aspects of Native American life. A sub-site of
Native Web.
Index of Native American
Resources
See also
Alphabetical List of
Federally Recognized Native American Tribes.
Jewish Americans
Confronting Anti-Semitism
A sample lesson plan from the Anti-Defamation League's Confronting
Anti-Semitism Project.
Remembering the Holocaust and Combating Xenophobia on January 27th
A classroom activity and discussion questions for junior and senior high
school students from Yad Vashem. See
their
other lesson plans on anti-semitism.
One
Survivor Remembers: Anti Semitism
A lesson plan for grades 6 + based on the incredible life story of Holocaust
survivor Gerda Weissman Klein.
Jewish
American Heritage Month
From EDSITEment. See their
Featured Lessons.
The Jewish
Americans
Four lesson plans from PBS.
350 Years of Jewish-American History
Scroll down the page to find
12 lesson plans.
Immigration to the Golden Land: Jewish Life in America
A lesson plan designed to give students an understanding of the experiences
of Jewish immigrants to the United States. See also
The History of Jews in America.
Torah Network
Information and links to sites about
Judaism.
Judaism and Christianity - Creatively
A 6th-grade unit.
Medieval Anti-Semitism and Connection to Intolerance in America
A secondary lesson plan in pdf format.
New Excuses. Old
Hatred: Worldwide Anti-Semitism in the Wake of 9/11
A high school lesson plan.
New Years Around the
World
Scroll through the lesson plans in
this elementary unit to find the Lesson Plan Days 5 and 6: The Jewish New
Year.
For many lesson plans on the Holocaust, go to
the history lesson
plans and resources page.
Russian Americans
Magical
World of Russian fairy Tales
A lesson plan for grades 3-5.
Russian and American Folktales
A 1st-grade lesson plan from
The Museum of
Russian Icons. Scroll down the page to see their many other lesson
plans.
Russian-Jewish Immigration 1880-1920:
A Resource Guide for Teachers
Hyphenated Russian-Americans
Facts and figures from Harvard. See also
Russian American.
A Russian Settlement in Alaska: A Community at the Meeting of Frontiers
A high school lesson plan.
The
Russian Steamer Politkofsy: A Russian-American Legend
A teacher's resource manual.
Russia (Window to Russia)
Arab Americans/Moslems
Who
Are the Arab Americans?
An activity from Tolerance.org.
Arab-American National Museum
Many lesson plans for all grade levels.
Arab Americans: In the Aftermath of the Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.
A lesson plan for grades 6-12 from P.B.S.
Anti-Arab Stereotypes,
Discrimination and Hate Crimes
A lesson plan from the Arab-American
Anti-Discrimination Committee.
Arab Culture and Society
Another lesson plan from the American Arab Anti
Discrimination Committee (ADC.org) that provides suggestions for
Arab-Americans who are speaking to K-12 students/classrooms. Many
of the ideas and much of the information could be adapted to an introductory
lesson plan on Arab culture.
The Arab Culture in
Review: A Global Perspective
An Internet-based project in which students assume various roles within and
related to the Arab culture. It consists of five activities and an
assessment.
Interpreting Women in Islam
An Internet-based high school lesson plan from PBS.
Arabic Language
Many lesson plans and resources from my
World Languages page.
A Moroccan Fairy Tale vs. European Folk/Fairy Tale
An elementary-grade lesson plan.
Arab American Chamber of Commerce
Council on
Islamic Education: Online Lesson Plans
Many lesson plans and resources.
Jihad
between Secularism and Piety
One lesson plan from the Council on Islamic
Education.
The Growth
of Islam
A SCORE Cyberguide providing a 7th-grade Internet-based activity.
Islamic Scientific Contributions to Civilization
Internet-based lesson plan.
Islam
A lesson plan for grades 9-12 from Discovery Education. See also
Islam: History, Society, and Civivlization for a middle school lesson
plan from this same source.
Islam 101 Online
Course
An online course complete with tests.
Click here for the Islam 101 main page.
World
Religions Lesson Plans
Many lesson plans from my
Theology/Religion
Page.
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