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Culturally-Based Curriculum Resources
by Alaska Native Knowledge Network
http://ankn.uaf.edu/Resources/course/view.php?id=2

Culturally responsive curriculum resources for the study of Alaska native knowledge systems and ways of learning. Database includes units, lesson plans, activities, and background material for use in the K-12 classroom, geared primarily for use in the curriculum fields of math and science. The materials are created within a culturally aligned curriculum framework reflecting indigenous knowledge systems, and incorporate oral tradition, learned skills, traditional practice, folk medicine, and native ecological perspectives which make them valuable for application in social science and humanities curricula.

Grade Level: K-2; 3-5; 6-8; 9-12 Curriculum: Science; Performing Arts; Music; Math; Language Arts; History and Social Studies; Art and Culture
Resource Type: Lesson plans; Activities Language: English
Subjects: Land use; Traditional medicine; Environmental sciences; Alaska--Social life and customs; Plants; Human ecology; Material culture; Indians of North America; Maritime culture; Oral tradition; Weather; Fishing; Animals
Geographic locations: Alaska

Sponsoring Organization:
Alaska Native Knowledge Network
University of Alaska Fairbanks, PO Box 756730
Fairbanks AK 99775-6730
(907) 474-1902
http://ankn.uaf.edu/


Hmong Cultural Tour
by Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures
http://csumc.wisc.edu/cmct/HmongTour/themes/index.htm

Teacher's guide for organizing cultural tours for students in the upper elementary grades, developed as an educational resource for a Madison Children's Museum exhibit, Hmong at Heart, created in 2004. This site documents a class trip of 4th and 5th graders to seven cities in Wisconsin to introduce them to Hmong culture and communities firsthand. Includes a "How We Did It" section, to help teachers plan their own cultural field trips, and students' essays about the trip. Hmong traditions and history, including music, foodways, crafts, games, healing practices, and textile arts are described in the "Field Guide to Hmong Culture," (91 p. PDF). Links to the "Teachers' Guide to Local Culture" (69 p. PDF), which includes a generic lesson plan for grades 3-5, with adaptations for K-2, plus teaching strategies. Also links to the "Kids' Guide to Local Culture," (139 p. PDF), which includes student activities.

Grade Level: K-2; 3-5 Curriculum: Language Arts; History and Social Studies; Art and Culture
Resource Type: Activities Language: English
Subjects: Interviewing; Inquiry-based learning; Foodways; Traditional medicine; Music; Games; Textile fabrics; Folklore--Fieldwork; Community life; Storytelling; Fieldwork (Educational method); Hmong Americans; Wisconsin--Social life and customs; Crafts
Geographic locations: Wisconsin

Sponsoring Organization:
Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures
901 University Bay Drive
Madison WI 53705
(608) 262-8180
http://csumc.wisc.edu/

Other Organizations:
Madison Children's Museum
100 State Street
Madison WI 5370f3
(608) 256-6445
http://www.madisonchildrensmuseum.org/


Learn NC
by UNC School of Education
http://www.learnnc.org/

K-12 teaching and learning resources from the School of Education at the University of North Carolina. Includes lesson plans and learning materials (text and multimedia) on all curriculum areas for use by students independently or as part of classroom instruction. Resources can be browsed by grade level, subject area, and curriculum objective. Lesson plans include folklore, traditional culture, and many other topics. All lesson plans are aligned to the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.

Grade Level: K-2; 3-5; 6-8; 9-12 Curriculum: Sports and Recreation; Science; Performing Arts; Music; Math; Language Arts; History and Social Studies; Art and Culture
Resource Type: Video recordings; Lesson plans; Audio recordings; Activities; Primary sources Language: English
Subjects: Traditional medicine; Oral history; Music; Material culture; History; Foodways; Folklore; Folk art; Fieldwork (Educational method); Ethnic groups; Ethnic arts; Dance; Culture; Cultural geography; North Carolina--Social life and customs
Geographic locations: North Carolina; General

Sponsoring Organization:
LEARN North Carolina
The University of North Carolina, School of Education
Chapel Hill NC 27599-7216
(919) 962-8888
http://soe.unc.edu/


Our Arts, Our Land: A Young Reader's Guide to Selected Folk Arts of Hawaii
by Michael Schuster, Carl Hefner, J.W. Junker
http://www2.hawaii.edu/%7Ehefner/pages/index.htm

Music, photographs, and interviews of traditional master artists from Hawaii designed as an introduction to folk arts for young people. The audio recordings were originally aired on Hawaii Public Radio as part of the "Pacific Visions" radio series. Hawaiian traditional arts represented include chant, lauhala weaving, fishnet knotting, quilting, slack key and steel guitar music, medicinal herbs, gourd carving, and hula ki'i puppetry. Also included are practitioners of Chinese Opera, Okinawan koten music and dance, Filipino dance, Korean pansori singing, and Japanese Mingei pottery. A folk arts quiz is provided for students.

Grade Level: 3-5; 6-8; 9-12 Curriculum: Performing Arts; Music; Art and Culture
Resource Type: Audio recordings; Activities Language: English; Hawaiian
Subjects: Decorative arts; Asian Americans; Crafts; Basket making; Folk artists; Folk art; Fishing nets; Pottery; Weaving; Music; Quilting; Puppets; Traditional medicine; Chinese Americans; Hawaiians; Japanese Americans; Maritime culture; Korean Americans; Chinese Opera; Hawaii--Social life and customs; Needlework
Geographic locations: Hawaii; East Asia; Asia

Sponsoring Organization:
Hawai'i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts
250 South Hotel Street, 2nd floor
Honolulu HI 96813
(808) 586-0300
http://hawaii.gov/sfca/


 

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