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 learn about community celebrations and their importance to a community’s cultural heritage. Students compare different celebrations including place, time, purpose, history, food and drinks, activities, and other important ideas associated with culture.

Students will take a trip to explore the architecture in their communities, hunting for specific features from the Field Guide and using the suggested discussion questions.

This inquiry engages students in expanding their understandings of diverse cultures. Students examine diverse cultures and histories around the globe.

Students will discuss, investigate, reflect, and make a photograph connected to the American flag. They will then write a detailed description that responds to one or more prompt questions and share both photographs and descriptions online.

This is a chart used to record the elements of culture found within the various versions of Cinderella, or any other text.  I used this for my second grade students during our Culture Unit/How We Express Ourselves PYP Unit.  

This is a Bubble Map used to record the elements of culture found within different texts/ media. Credit to: Amity Davis

Students will watch and discuss a short video about an early American steam
locomotive, the John Bull.

Three simple and age appropriate activities on Spanish language and culture which focus on the family and the Spanish names for various family members.

In this classroom activity, students will recognize the Smithsonian Institution and be able to explain what a museum does. This is accomplished through the use of discussion questions and activities in which they relate stories from prior museum visits or share ideas for a museum that they would like to create.

This video series is broken up into two-part mini programs which each include a short video history lesson followed by a second video with a craft activity. These videos are designed to be viewed together to learn about history of Vance Birthplace State Historic Site in the mountains of North Carolina and life in the 1800s.

In this lesson, students will understand who we are (as a country) by examining the different foods and customs that represent the different cultures and geographic areas of the country. Students will understand that their families (ancestors) participated in making the country what it is today. Students will examine the diversity within their own class and in other locations throughout the country.

For this lesson, students gain an understanding of cultural foods while learning about the health benefits of some foods from around the world.

Students will cook one or more historical maritime recipes and then compare the foods they eat to what was served on ships in the past.

For this activity, students participate in activites to demonstrate how they 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 discusses the differences between common representations of Native Americans within the U.S. and a more differentiated view of historical and contemporary cultures of five American Indian tribes living in different geographical areas. Students will learn about customs and traditions such as housing, agriculture, and ceremonial dress for the Tlingit, Dinè, Lakota, Muscogee, and Iroquois peoples.

Students will have the opportunity to recreate their houses on paper and review architecture.