For this activity, students develop social skills and become more group-oriented by exploring the culture of their friends.

Each student will create a book about themselves using the book template. They will identify how people are similar and different.

In this lesson, students will participate in a class activity to observe their similarities and differences using the common theme of birthday celebrations. Students and their families will fill out a brief homework questionnaire about their family birthday traditions to be shared with the class. A reproducible copy of the questionnaire is included in the lesson. Students will also create a class graph of birthday months and write/draw a page for a class book about birthday celebrations.

In this lesson, students learn facts about the country of Ireland and its legends.

In this lesson, students will learn about different family traditions and holiday celebrations from around the world.

Students learn about what makes a celebration. They brainstorm celebrations they have experienced and classify them into categories. Students focus on national holidays and learn about two holidays celebrated in our national community: Veterans Day and Independence Day.

In this lesson, students compare the similarities and differences between themselves and their classmates by helping to create a class quilt. Each student will contribute a square of the quilt by drawing a picture of an important event or special time in their lives. Each student will have a turn to describe their square, then the class will examine and discuss the quilt together. The class idscussion will highlight the similarities and differences among classmates' squares.

Students will understand how their families are similar and different in respect to kinship, laws, and religion, as well as the music they enjoy, the clothing they wear, and the food they eat.

Students gain an understanding that families have similarities and differences and that members of families share the customs and traditions unique to their family.

Students explore the customs and traditions celebrated in their own homes, as well as interview invited guests to learn about other customs and traditions.

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.

In this lesson, students will gain knowledge about various birthday traditions from other countries around the world. The students will help the teacher make a chart of the most liked birthday traditions from the countries shared in the story.The students will also give similarities and differences they notice about birthday traditions around the world. This lesson was developed by LaToya Dawson as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

In this lesson, students will learn about birthdays around the world. Students will listen and learn about the diversity of people, food, games and birthday traditions globally. This lesson was developed by LaToya Dawson as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

Students will learn about the similarities and differences of birthday celebrations around the world. This lesson was developed by Tracey Dix as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

Students will review what they learned about birthday traditions and celebrations around the world. They will apply what they learned to their writings and share what they learned with their classmates. This lesson was developed by Tracey Dix as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

Students will learn about birthday celebrations in the Netherlands. Students will have the opportunity to play a traditional Dutch birthday game. This lesson was developed by Tracey Dix as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

Students will learn about Chinese birthday traditions. Students will celebrate the diversity of people, food, games and traditions globally. This lesson was developed by Leslie Montgomery as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

This lesson allows students to investigate birthdays around the world by using text to explore different celebrations and traditions in the world in which we live. The students will listen and learn about the diversity of people, food, games and traditions globally. This lesson was developed by Leslie Montgomery as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

This lesson reviews what the students have learned throughout this unit. During this lesson, the students have the opportunity to take action by writing and drawing in their journals to reflect on what they have learned about birthday celebrations around the world. The final part of this unit is for the students to share their work with the class to give their perspectives on different traditions around the world. This lesson was developed by Leslie Montgomery as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

Students will take action for our unit on needs and wants by starting a can food drive for our local food pantry. The students will do jobs/chores at home to earn the can food they bring in to donate.This lesson was developed by Michelle Allen as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

In this lesson, students gain an understanding that families have similarities and differences and that members of families share the customs and traditions unique to their family.

In this lesson, students learn how to say hello in five different languages.

Students will learn how to say hello in five different languages. This activity focuses on the different cultural languages spoken throughout the world. Students will learn how to say, ?Hello? in five different languages?Spanish, Portuguese, French, Swahili, and Japanese. (Adjust this to the diversity of the students in your class or area you wish to study.) Just as there are differences in the way we look around the world, there are also differences in the way we speak.

Discuss how people live in countries all over the world. People Celebrate many holidays. Those people who celebrate Christmas havesimilar, but different traditions, ways and things they do to celebrate Christmas.

This inquiry engages students in expanding their understandings of families in general and the idea that families can be both similar and different. Although much of family life may be shared - language, religion, culture, and traditions - there are important differences across these elements. The compelling question "How can families be the same and different?" offers students opportunities to explore a range of family dimensions - structure, activities, and traditions.

Lesson one sets the foundation for the students to understand how their families are similar and different in respect to kinship, laws, and religion, as well as the music they enjoy, the clothing they wear, and the food they eat.

In this lesson, students explore the customs and traditions celebrated in their own homes, as well as interview invited guests to learn about other customs and traditions.

Lesson four expands on the idea of family similaritiesto include customs and traditions. Just as families celebrate customs and traditions in their home, community members celebrate customs and traditions in their neighborhood. These neighborhood celebrations often include a variety of events and activities such as parades, sport games, and festivals that include music, clothing, and food. These customs and traditions help define the community, and contribute to a spirit of belonging and togetherness.

In this lesson, students learn about what makes a celebration. They brainstorm celebrations they have experienced and classify them into categories. Students focus on national holidays and learn about two holidays celebrated in our national community: Veterans Day and Independence Day.

In this lesson, students utilize their understanding of local celebrations to create a proposal for a celebration based on their school community. The celebration will focus on what is important to the school. Students learn the decision making process and work in planning groups to determine key aspects of the celebration and write a letter explaining the proposal to an authority figure in the school, such as the school principal. Students use voting as a way to make a group decision.

This is a great lesson plan to use to keep you on track. It includes what your principals/elevators are looking for during observations, and even gives a section for you to reflect on your lesson. It can also be utilized by subs if written correctly.
This would also be a good tool to use with a substitute. It would be easy enough for a substitute to follow and give feedback on how the students completed the day.
Added through Remixing: A reflection piece was added for a teacher to examine how culturally relevant teaching principles are included in the lesson plan template. Also an indication of the grade level was added as well.

In this lesson, students will learn about the Maori culture in the New Zealand area and play the Maori Stick Game. It will help them to understand how individuals are similar and different.

For this activity, students identify different aspects of culture and interview a family member to learn about their cultural history. Students also identify why aspects and traditions of their cultural history are important and how they contribute to society, understand, appreciate and respect differences and similaritiies among classmates' cultures.

This lesson will focus on how to sculpt a functional object in clay. By sculpting a cup, students will learn routines for working with clay and strategies to create a successful sculpted object. They will also learn that people long ago in Guatemala used similar cups to drink hot chocolate. Essential question asked:
How can we use clay to create a usable object?

Students utilize their understanding of local celebrations to create a proposal for a celebration based on their school community. The celebration will focus on what is important to the school. Students learn the decision making process and work in planning groups to determine key aspects of the celebration and write a letter explaining the proposal to an authority figure in the school, such as the school principal. Students use voting as a way to make a group decision.

After reading books about different cultures (the differences/similarities in language, dress, homes, food, art), the teacher and class will discuss how people in different cultures dress differently, eat different foods or foods that are made in different ways, live in different homes, and have different celebrations.  The teacher could make a simple slide show or get some images from the internet to show students different cultures and their dress, foods, celebrations, etc.  The higher level students will read Don’t Laugh at Me by Steve Seskin and Allen Shamblin and participate in a seminar discussion.  This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

After reading books about different cultures (the differences/similarities in language, dress, homes, food, art), the teacher and class can create a Prezi or physical poster to show different cultures around the world. Students can compare and contrast their culture with different cultures around the world.  This could be done using a Venn Diagram as well. Then higher-level students will be expected to create their own slideshow of one culture around the world including language, dress, homes, food, art, holidays, and anything that makes the culture special and unique. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

This activity focuses on being an individual and reminds students that it is okay to be different. Differences such as skin color, eye color, hair color, emotions, families, etc., will be discussed.

In this activity, students explore what students in other countries eat for lunch. They will then use art supplies to make a poster or game board that presents their findings.