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Diversity
Culture and
Diversity One World:
Connecting
Communities,
Cultures, and
Classrooms .
Multicultural
Art
America: A
Home for Every Culture
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 What Is Culture?
Changing Attitudes in America
Contains six lesson
plans related to racism as well as
a great deal of background information.
EDSITEment
Teaching Tolerance
Classroom Activities from Tolerance.org
Teaching Tolerance
Teaching Tolerance: Additional Resources for a list of links to
additional lesson plans. Museum of Tolerance:
Teacher's Guide
and Reources Teaching Tolerance ~ Lesson Plans
Tolerance in
Times of Trial A lesson plan for grades 6-12 from PBS America
Responds that explores "the problems inherent in assigning blame to
populations or nations of people."
Understanding Stereotypes
Multicultural Art Lessons
Melissa's Myriad
Scroll down the page to
find many art lesson plans
including some that are multicultural.Native American
Coil Pots Multicultural Art and Craft
Lesson Plans and Activities Pinterest Multicultural Art Lessons Multicultural
Art Language through Art
Romare Bearden-Style Collages
Romare Bearden.
Textured Pottery Using Self-Hardening Clay and Multicultural Designs
Multicultural Literature/Language Arts Lessons
Examining African-American
Culture Through the Use of Children’s
Literature America The Beautiful! :
Lesson Plan Using Multicultural Literature
Rosa Parks
Multicultural
Literature and Social Studies
Exploring Ann
Frank's Diary
Teaching
Multicultural Literature in High School
Multicultural Literature:
High School.
Similarities Between African
Folktales and French Folktales
Understanding Hispanic/Latino
Culture and History Through Children’s
Literature
Puerto Rican Folktales
The
House on Mango Street Sandra
Cisneros@Web English Teacher for other lesson plans for this author.
Women in Traditional China
and their Portrayal in Chinese Folktales
Heroes and Heroines in the
Family Stories Around the World in Film and Literature
Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
Teaching Responsibility to Children of Different Cultures through
Film and Literature Stories
Race
and Ethnicity in Contemporary Art and Literature
Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
Expanding Fifth Grade Ethnic
Awareness Through Literature
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
Crossing the Border: A Study
of Immigration Through Literature
See also
Children's Literature
for many multicultural literature
lesson plans.
Multicultural Math Activities
Mathematics Activities from
Diverse Cultures
Let's Multiply -
Maya Style
An activiy from
the Smithsonian.
Classroom Activities: Culturally Diverse Lesson Plans Money Makes the World Go Around
African-American
Mathematicians
Examining Racial
Diversity Across
School Districts
in U S States Diversity in Mathematics: Census Statistics in Utah
Mathematicians of the African
Diaspora Information on mathematicians
of African descent.
Play Mancala
An African math game
Egyptian Fractions
A set of link.
See also
and
An Odd Egyptian Puzzle.
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.
A Mathematics
Lesson Plan from
the Mayan
Civilization
Aztec and Maya Calendar
All sorts of information.
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 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Music
Ed - Multicultural Multicultural Music Comparing Native American and American Folk Music:
Grass Dance Song
The Music of
African American
History
African Music Musical Harlem
What Does this
Song Really Say Music as Social
Protest A lesson plan from PBS to be
used with
the film
"Sierra Leone's
Refugee All
Stars ."
Blues Impulse
Eleven Units from the
Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. Jazz in America The Blues and Jazz .
See also
Jazz Talk and
Learning with
Jazz .Multicultural Science Lessons and Resources Alaska
Native Knowledge Network Handbook for Culturally Responsive Science
Curriculum. Lead Contamination in Our Environment
Women in Science
Meet Four
Pioneering
African-American
Astronauts
African American
Inventors in
History
African American Scientists African Americans in Science .
Multicultural Social Studies Lessons and
Resources
Social Studies Page) Multicultural
Literature and Social Studies
Exploring Native Americans Across the Curriculum
Revisiting Pocahontas
The Fight for Equal Rights:
Black Soldiers in the Civil War
After Reconstruction: Problems
of African Americans in the South
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B.
Dubois Segregation: From Jim Crow To Linda Brown
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.
Cinco de Mayo
for Teachers
Affidavit and Flyers from the Chinese Boycott Case
A lesson plan using historic documents
from the National Archives
- Teaching with Documents.
Japanese Relocation and Internment During World War II ee
also
Japanese American Internment for
another lesson plan.
WW II: The Other Americans
Women
4000 Years of Women in Science
Great site for information
on women in science. Women in Science
Women in Math Education World Women's History Month Lesson Plans and Activities
Susan B. Anthony
Women in World History Curriculum
Sample lesson plans
for women's history.Gender Stereotyping
Awareness 19th
Amendment
Resources for
Teaching the
19th Amentment .
Women's
Suffrage:
Their
Rights
and
Nothing
Less
Women's Suffrage .Women's Equality: Changing Attitudes and Beliefs
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
for more lesson plans
from EDSITEment.
Hispanics Hispanic Heritage Month Begins Today Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Teacher's Guide and
24 Great Ideas for Hispanic Heritage Month (Scholastic) as well as
National Hispanic Heritage Month from EDSITEment. Mendez v. Westminster: Desegregating California's Schools A Tale of Two
Schools ,
Mendez v. Westminster -
Lesson Plans Based on Your Time
and
The Fight for Racial Equality in Education (click
pon high school
lesson plans to
access the
lesson).The
Lemon Grove Incident Cultural Aspects of Spanish
in America
Hispanic Identity: From Dreams to Civic Participation
New Movements For Social Justice:
The Latino Struggle for Equal Rights
Twentieth Century Latin American Writing
Hispanic Immigration: America
in the Year 2000
The Hispanic World
Crossing the Border: A Study
of Immigration through Literature A middle school or
high school unit.
Black History Month/African
Americans (Additional lesson plans are included in
History
Lesson Plans and Resources )
Black
History Month
African American History
and Heritage Site Teacher Toolkit for Grades
K-12. See also
Black History Pages.
Black History
Month 2023 Meaninh,
theme,events,
facts, and
significan
colours.
African American
History in the
United States Celebrate Black History Month Take
Part in the African American Read-In!
Stories to Tell:
Curating a Black
History Museum
Black Lives
Matter, the
Killing of
George Floyd,
and the Long
fight for Racial
Justice
Teaching about
the George Floyd
Murder Trial .
Black Live
Matter
Talking about
Race and
Privilege Lesson of the
Day: Teaching
about 'Critical;
Race theory: A
Brief History' NY
Times . See
also
Teaching about
the Critical
Race Theory
Debate .
Understaning The
American Civil Rights Movement
Teaching with
Documents: The Civil Rights Act of 1964
and the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission
American Educational History:
A Hypertext Timeline American Educational History: What's Most
Important?
Teaching with Documents: The Amistad Case.
Slavery
in America The Atlantic Slave Trade
and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record.
Juneteenth
National Freedom
Day
Celebrate
Juneteenth .
After Reconstruction: Problems
of African Americans in the South Slavery in the United States: Primary Sources and the Historical Record
for another lesson plan from the same source.
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B.
Dubois
Harlem Renaissance Retrospective
Unforgiveable Blackness
Segregation: From Jim Crow To Linda Brown
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?
Little
Rock 9, Integration 0?
Tuskegee Tragedy
Mosaic America: Patterns of
Racism Racism and Nativism in American Political Culture .
NAACP Homepage
Institute for Urban and Minority Education
Information about teaching
urban and minority students.
Civil Rights Lesson Plans and Resources
for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. History Page.
Travel Historic
Places of the
Civil Rights
Movement The Civil Rights Movement
Teaching with
Documents: The Civil Rights Act of 1964
and the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission
L ittle Rock Nine: Activities
Tuskegee Tragedy
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
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.
An Act of Courage, The Arrest Records of
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks:
How I Fought for Civil Rights. Before Rosa Parks:
Frances Watkins Harper
Before Rosa
Parks: Ida B. Wells .
National Civil Rights Museum
Educator Resources.
Gay/Lesbian/Sexual Preference
Is Your School Homophobic?
GLSEN Educator
Resources LGBT
Pride Month Guide for Educators .
LGBQT Timeline
Lesson Teaching and Learning about Gay History and Issues New York Times Learning Network.
Sexual
Orientation,
Identity and
Behavior
Gender Marriage Equality: Different Strategies for Attaining Equal Rights LGBT Awareness
Week
Understanding Families
with Gay and Lesbian Parents Stonewall and Beyond: Gay and Lesbian Issues
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights: A Human Rights Perspective
Asians Asian-Pacific Heritage Month May is Asian American Heritage Month
Asian American
History Teaching Guide .
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is in May! Lon Po Po: A Chinese Fairy Tale Hmong
Cultural Center Hmong Among Us N.Y.
Daily Times .The Hmong in Our Midst
Teaching Hmong History And Culture Through Story Cloths Dia's
Story Cloth: The Hmong People's Journey to Freedom and
Stories
in Quilts . Tragedy of the
Hmong Hmong
Timeline .
Asia
Society Resources for Educators elementary and
secondary ) for learning about Asia and Asian
Americans.Chinese Inventions Asian Immigration
Southeast Asian Refugees
Japanese-American Internment
Japanese-American Internment
for another secondary lesson plan.
Discovering
Angel Island: The
Story Behind the Poems 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.
Energy of a
Nation:
Immigrants on
America, 3rd
Edition
Undocumented
Immigrants
Immigration Law:
Deport or Not?
You Decide
Immigration:
Stories,
Struggles, and
Debates The Immigrant
Experience in America Immigration to the United States
A
Nation of
Immigrants
A lesson plan
about the
Immigration Act
of 1965 for
grades 7-8. See
also
The 1965
Immigration Act
and thje myth of
the Model
Minority
and
50 Years On, The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act Continues to
Reshape America .
Understanding
Immigration
Reform
Immigration
and Oral History
Pathways to
America:
Teaching about
Immigration NY
Times .Asian Immigration
Immigration:
Stories of Yesterday and Today An online activity
complete with a teacher's guide.
Hispanic Immigration: America
in the Year 2000
Ellis Island
Teacher
Resources
Ellis Island
German Immigrants: Their Contributions
to the Upper Midwest American
Memory
of the Library of Congress.
Where I Come From
Homelessness/Refugees National
Coalition for the Homeless
National
Center
for
Homeless
Education .
Homelessness: A Bottom-Line Issue Stereotypes about Homelessness
Homelessness in Our Community
Maniac Magee
A Novel Guide from Class Zone. See also
Sample Unit:
The Legend of Maniac Magee.
Refugee
discussion Guide UNHCR
Teaching about
Refugees
Lesson Plans for
ages 9-11 in
Human Rights and
refugees: To Be
a Refugee .Geography: Refugees - Who,
Where, and Why?
Lesson Plans -
Refugees The Global
Refugee Crisis
Native Americans Exploring
Native Americans Across the Curriculum Activities to Celebrate Native American Heritage.
American
Inmdian History
and Heritage
Native American
Lessons and Units Native American
Heritage Month November is National American Indian Heritage Month
Native American
Cultures Across
the U.S.
Trails of Understanding:
The Earliest Immigrants Yours and My Trail of Tears The Trail of Tears;
Its Grief and Loss
for a 5th-grade lesson plan.
Revisiting Pocahontas
Indian
Removal
Act
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 Alphabetical List of
Federally Recognized Native American Tribes .
Jewish Americans Jewish American Heritage Month
Resources Jewish American
Heritage Month Jews in American
History: A
Teacher's Guide
Challenging
Anti-Semitism:
Debunking the
Myths and
Responding with
Facts
Everyday Bias
Teaching about
the Holocaust
through
Children's
Diaries
Childhood Before
and During the
Holocaust The Jewish
Americans
Teaching about
the Israel Hamas
War NY Times .
See also
Resources for
Discussing the
Israel Hamas War
with Students .
Teaching the
Arab-Israeli
Conflict Immigration to the Golden Land: Jewish Life in America
US Holocaust Museum
For many lesson
plans on the
Holocaust, go to
my
history lesson
plans and resources page.
Russian Americans Magical
World of Russian fairy Tales Russian America: Interpreting Primary Source Information A Russian Settlement in Alaska: A Community at the Meeting of Frontiers
Arab Americans/Moslems
Celebrating Arab American Heritage Month For Arab-American
Heritage Month, appreciate our accomplishments .
Lesson Plans for
Arab-American
Heritage Month
Teaching the
Arab-Israeli
Conflict
Teaching about
the Israel Hamas
War NY Times .
See also
Resources for
Discussing the
Israel Hamas War
with Students .
Who
Are the Arab Americans? Anti-Arab
Discrimination:
What Can
Teachers Do
Arab Stereotypes
and American
Educators .
The Arab Culture in
Review: A Global Perspective Women in
Islam Muslim
Women
through
Time .Arabic Language
Arab American Chamber of Commerce World
Religions Lesson Plans Theology/Religion
Page.
Somali
Americans
The Somali
Migration
Mapping Lesson
Understanding
Somali Culture A
lesson plan for
grades 9-12.
The Challenges
of Refugee
Resettlement
Somali History,
Language, &
Culture
Crisis in the
Horn of Africa :
Understanding
the Famine in
Somalia NY
Times .
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