In these units, students can discover the Spanish and Mexican roots of American cowboy culture in this set of four lessons, divided into grades K–2, 3–5, 6–8, and 9–12. The youngest students look for the Spanish origins of cowboy words (lasso from lazo, for example). Older students do a bit of translation work: they compose a rhyming cowboy ballad based on a Mexican corrido.

Featured here are three traditional songs from England that call for opportunities to sing,
move, and listen attentively. Each song offers young children the opportunity to be
creative in their physical expressions while also following direction in a sequential order.
These experiences allow the teacher a straightforward means for taking folk and
traditional songs of England into classrooms of young children.

Students will read scientific text about top predators in Arctic marine ecosystems and how they may be affected by global climate change. Students will work individually or collaboratively to write a report based on the scientific text they have read and participate in a large-group discussion session based on their analysis.

Students will develop an understanding of the mode of Namdo Korean folksongs, as well as the call-and-response musical form. To illustrate these features, this lesson focuses on the 5,000 year-old Korean dance known as "Ganggangsullae" ("Kang-Kang-Soo-Woo-Nae"). This dance is typically performed by women under the full moon, and it incorporates singing, dancing, and playing. Within the cultural unit are various activities such as drawing, exercising melodic skills, singing the song form, writing lyrics, and dancing in a circle.

Students will be introduced to the music of India with a focus on introductory terminology, elemental concepts, and instrument identification through various singing, listening and playing opportunities.

Students will explore George Washington's portrait in detail, from three very different vantage points: the symbolic, the biographic, and the artistic.

Students can use their senses to see, smell, and feel what it would have been like to live on the prairie long ago.

In this lesson, students read and interpret George Washington's first and second inaugural addresses, comparing and contrasting the information of each speech. Then students will write an imaginative narrative based on the events of the two inauguration days.

In this lesson, students will think critically about advertising messages, techniques, and the importance of designing and pitching advertisements to target audiences. Students will first examine images of historical civil rights propaganda and then work collaboratively with other students to create a slogan or advertisement to motivate youth of varyng ages to vote at the school, local, state, national,or international level.

Students will explore how much they would weigh on a different world/planet and why their weight would be different.

Students can access links to hands-on activities and a list of recommended readings related to the topic of women's history. These links are associated with the Smithsonian Museum in the United States.

Students can learn abouth the Harvest Ceremony which is part of many Native American tribes.

Students and teachers can learn about the Haudenosaunee Alliance of various Native American groups including the Mohak from North Carolina.

Students are introduced to the culture and music of Mardi Gras Indians, an important African American phenomenon that takes place in New Orleans. Students will examine the tradition and its culture-bearers, listen to and analyze Mardi Gras Indian music, and examine the multiple cultural influences that have contributed to the tradition. Students will gain experience in listening, movement, and performance, which will enrich their sense of the musical and cultural complexity of this phenomenon.

Students will examine an historical newspaper, a piece of historical fiction, and their social studies textbooks for accounts of the civil rights movement, and then define 'equality' and 'discrimination'. They will then use these definitions to look for instances of equality and discrimination in modern society.

This lesson plan transforms students from radio listeners to radio writers. The students will create and produce their own radio shows to perform for the class.

In this lesson, students will have an opportunity to learn about sunflowers and plant sunflower seeds, a native plant of the North American prairie.

Students will learn about the different items which are used by firefighters and the role they play in the community.

Students will be able to explain the difference between primary and secondary sources, and explain how the value of using primary sources is important to history. By using primary sources to answer a series of questions, they will see that, much like detectives, historians have to prove that their answers are correct by providing evidence.

In this lesson, students learn about the conditions of African Americans in Mississippi during the summer of 1964 through reading excerpts from the Benton County Freedom Train newsletter. Students will then use the graphic/comic creation site Pixton.com to create a graphic strip of three or more panels to demonstrate their understanding of the excerpts.