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Description: Students will compare the major world religions of Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Daoism, and Islam.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Susan Smith
Nigeria's Ethnic Challenges
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The first part of this lesson focuses on the pre-colonial ethnic history of Nigeria. The second part looks at how European colonization impacted the area’s development. The third part shifts the focus to modern times and the north-south conflicts of today.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Janet Hall
Ancient World First Aid Culture Kit
Description: The goal of this lesson is for students to identify the four main, ancient cultural hearths and their relative locations.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: OAS, GFL Produced By: Teresa Potter
Take Your Peck
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Description: Physical characteristics associated with ethnic background and cultures develop over time through a process known as natural selection. In this lesson students will explore this process through an activity that simulates the natural selection process in birds. Students will later analyze the physical characteristics of people from various countries by exploring photos from the “Photo of the Day” project from National Geographic.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Tiffany Neill
Cultural Caravan
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Description: Students may encounter differences in cultures through the course of their lives, but they may not fully recognize how cultures develop. Some cultures share characteristics while some aspects about a culture are distinctly different. Through this lesson students will explore the processes that influence cultural characteristics. Students will also have an opportunity to explore and present cultures connected to their own families and backgrounds.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Tiffany Neill
A Cultural Look at India
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Description: Students will discover and evaluate cultural life in India through fictional literature.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Heather Braucher
Life in a Spanish Mission: A Comparative View of Different Cultures
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Description: Students will discover the daily trials of life for all people who lived in the Spanish missions in California in the 1800s by analyzing the diary entries and accounts from a family living in Monterey, California, in 1838. The students will compare and contrast the range of feelings among the different groups by analyzing the diary entries as well as determine the cultural influences, good and bad, that the Spanish had on the Native Americans of the time.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Denise Aquilar
Geo-Dancing Around the World
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Description: We live in different geographic locations with special celebrations, cultural influences and traditions in history. This lesson will help students understand the relationships of these features by using the different types of dances that are performed all around the world. How do people dance in different parts of the world? Why are dance traditions different? What kind of dancing do you do? What characteristics of specific countries determine the type of dances for that region?
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Dianne Hill
Hindu Coming-of-Age Ritual
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Description: In this lesson, students learn about a coming-of-age ritual for upper-caste Hindu boy, and practice textual analysis in small groups.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Janet Hall
Culture of Comix
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Description: Students will be able to apply cultural characteristics to a graphic novel with a storyline which has a logical beginning and end.
Grade level(s): Middle Standards: PASS, GFL Produced By: Heather Braucher