In this activity, students use primary source documents in order to respond to this statement: "Assess the social, political, and economic impact of the development of the Federal Interstate Highway System from 1940 to the mid-1960s." Students will write an essay based on their analysis of the documents.
Immerse yourself in the lively mood of Samba and Carimbo. Learn the basic steps and dance along with the music. Identify the instruments and play along with others. Learn about the relationships of Samba and Carimbo with other musics such as jazz and swing.
Students are introduced to two contrasting dance traditions from
Argentina: the Chacarera and the Tango. Elements of the music used to accompany both types
of traditional dance will be explored.
Students and their teachers are introduced to the Kurdish people and their history and culture by
leading them on a Kurdish experience full of singing and dancing.
In this activity, students will analyze the letter Grace Bedell wrote to President Abraham Lincoln, then write and send their own letters to the president of the United States.
In this lesson, students learn about the Mirembe Kawomera Coffee Cooperative in Uganda, a movement designed to promote the sale of Ugandan coffe, and also to unite several culture groups, including Christians and Muslims, to promote a common cause of world peace. Students will explore the music found on the album created by members of the co-op.
In this activity, students will design his or her own money based on the idea that United States currency uses symbols to convey meaning.
This curricular unit introduces some difang yinyue (regional music of China) and encourages children to discover characteristics of Chinese music by "travelling" around the eastern region of this country.
In this lesson, students will read and analyze primary source documents that relate information about the March on Washington. Then, they will write a persuasive essay using evidence from the documents.
Students will practice using primary sources by to learn about slavery and the Underground Railroad by analyzing newspaper advertisements regarding runaway slaves from the Charleston Mercury
Students can explore the story behind one of America's pioneers of jazz music, Duke Ellington, through children's literature, museum collections, and hands-on activities.
In this lesson, students will learn about conditions of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression and will consider storytellling and persuasion in images.
In this lesson, students will learn about conditions of the Dust Bowl through song and examine one example of social protest through music.
In this lesson, students will understand examples of persuasive language and will learn about conditions in the Dust Bowl region in the mid-1930s by examining a speech by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and a letter written by farmer Caroline Henderson.
Students will experience the music of the Bedouin culture of Egypt. In the listening example,
they will hear two ancient traditional instruments; the rababa- a fretless stringed instrument,
and the darabuka- a conical percussion instrument. They will view examples of Egyptian scales
and rhythms and approximate the improvised sound of one of the scales and one of the
rhythms on western instruments. An extended activity will include the use of Egyptian Bedouin
music and student-improvised music within the structure of the ancient Egyptian art form,
Shadow Puppet Theatre.
Students are invited to sight-read (solfege), play recorder, listen critically, and create, all in exploration of traditional German children's songs. They take a further step in comparing these new songs to American children's songs with which they may be familiar.
This tutorial provides information about El Nino - its early warning signs, its ancient past, its global connections, and its impacts on the globe.
In this lesson, students will review primary sources to learn about the popular response to the airplane during the early 1900s. They will use their primary source study to understand how people felt about this new technology. Then, they will choose a technological invention of today and document the popular response to that invention.
This video shows Santorini and how it is impacted by plate tectonics.
Students will use an online game to learn how bartering works and why people chose to use money systems instead.