our developing world has resources to make it easier for you to teach to the STANDARDS.
Posters to borrow
BY THEMES:
- African Americans
- Children and Community
- Health
- Indigenous
- Interdependence ⁄ Ecology
- Peace ⁄ Human Rights ⁄ Cesar Chavez ⁄ Martin Luther King Jr. Women
- Economic Globalization
BY COUNTRY OR REGION:
- African
- South Africa
- Asia
- China ⁄ VietnamCambodia ⁄ Kites of India
- Pakistan ⁄ Nepal ⁄ Korea ⁄ Bangladesh⁄Indonesia
- Central America ⁄ Honduras ⁄ Guatemala ⁄ Nicaragua
- Cuba
- Latin America
| K | Grade 1 | Grade 2 | Grade 3 | Grade 4 | Grade 5 | Grade 6 | Grade 7 | Grade 8 | Grade 9 | Grade 10 | Grade 11 | Grade 12 |
| K- Learning and working together now/long ago | |
| Rules ⁄ consequences, courage, honesty, determination, individual responsibility, stories and folklore | Folk tales from Latin America, Asia and Africa, Native America |
| Beliefs | Proverbs from many cultures |
| Tools | Story of Weavers: borrow miniature spindles, looms, weavings Farmers |
| Maps ⁄ community | Guatemala: Neighbors ⁄ Community Story, pictures and map, hand woven huipiles to try on and other pieces, masks. Map puzzle of El Salvador lesson on directions and giving directions: prelude to map making |
| Grade 1- Place in time and space Maps ⁄ globes | Lesson on directions and giving directions: prelude to map making |
| People around the world differences and similarities | Maps of Central America - lessons for workstations stories and pictures, dolls. Nicaragua: The Little Red Hen- story (with different ending), hen, puppet and lesson plan. Bonnie and Diego ⁄ Alit, Autobiography of Adam, a Salvadoran 8 year old boy. An American girl´s story of living in a poor rural village in El Salvador. Corn husk dolls from 3 continents, balancing toys from Central America and Africa. Many books on kids and families. |
| Thanksgiving | Multicultural Thanksgiving |
| MLK Jr. | MLK Jr. story, speeches, pictures. |
| Economy ⁄ trade, money and jobs | Seeding game (Mandala or Wari) uses Cowrey shells which were used for trading |
| Grade 2- People who make difference | Rigoberta Menchu - lesson plan and poster, Rosa Parks, MLK Jr, Mandela, Native Americans. |
| Ancestors | Almost Ancestors. |
| Maps Mexico Cuba | Aztec ele unit, calendar, story, slides, sample of shape of Aztec codices but made with homemade paper in Laos. Map of Indigenous of Mexico ⁄ Cuba music. |
| Food production and consumption, processors, distributors, weather, land and water recourses | Five basic grains making tortillas with lesson plan farming methods to conserve soil on hillsides: an outdoor lesson Corn husk dolls from three continents demonstrate basic foods ⁄ geography. |
| Buyers and sellers | Pictures of open markets where producers sell (like farmers´ markets) basket of fruit worn on head of vendor. |
| Limits on people to produce and consume | Highland Maya The Story of a Shirt The Story of Cotton, complete process with miniature samples. |
| Grade 3- Continuity and change geographical features in local region American Indian nations in California Indians ⁄ settlers | Earthquake map of SF Bay area See 4th grade for CA Indians |
| Grade 4- California a changing state | |
| California Indians | 3rd and 4th grades Round stone from a rancheria south of Hollister, tule doll, Hupa basket Map of Indigenous of CA Almost Ancestors, The Singing Feather (Tribal Remembrances from Round Valley) Grass Games and Moon Races (CA Indian games and toys) |
| Spanish exploration and colonization missions, presidios, ranchos and Mexican war Goldrush |
Missions unit, Presidio Unit Chinese migration from 1852: Golden Legacy binder of resources and lessons |
| Immigration 1850-1900 | Island Writings (Angel Island) Books and Photos |
| Depression, Dust Bowl and WW2 | Depression Story Lesson and manuals on Japanese internment. Red Clogs story with game and Japanese clothes. |
| Grade 5- US History and Geography ⁄ making a nation | Map of Indigenous Photos of Anazazi and stamps of designs |
| Paul Robeson singing "Ballad For Americans" with Chorus and Orchestra. Eleven minutes of music and visuals of historic people and the wonderfully diverse people who built our country. Its was sung at a Republican Convention in the ´40s, when "Ballad For Americans" was sung on the radio it received more mail than any other radio production | |
| Cliff Dwellers, Pueblo, Pacific Northwest and nomadic Great Plains | Photos, stories and paper models of Navajo, Northwest and Plains dwellings, NW design pendant Pueblo drum, dream catcher with story and lesson, potsherd from Navajo land, Papago and Hopi baskets, Navajo rugs, rattle, etc. |
| Immigration | Writings of Immigrants from many continents during several waves of immigration |
| Aztec | Aztec Teaching Unit and story. Sample of shape of Aztec codices but made with homemade paper in Laos |
| Grade 6- World History and geography ⁄ ancient civilizations | Work of Louis, Mary and MD Leaky: "3.6 Million Year Old Footprints in the Ashes of Time" |
| Early man, hunter, gatherer, artist and Shaman | Post cards, "Burial Mounds", "A Family Tree for Modern Man", "Stone Age Oldavai Gorge" Hand-woven rug from Namibia (SW Africa) with replica of Ancient Saharan murals (10,000 years ago) Tanzanian newspaper article: Stone tools discovered Intro lesson before chronological study of ancient history A Road Map of History (world time line) The Tree Where Man Was Born |
| Mesopotamia | Earliest Recorded Hero: The Epic of Gilgamesh Lesson plan |
| Kush | Resource material Bibliography for 6th grade |
| Egypt | Women´s rights: Ancient Egypt and the US now England in Middle Ages Slides, basket from Luxor The Living Past |
| Greece | Spindle Stories II (women in classical Greece) and lessons: spindle, unspun cotton, hand-woven cotton, puppet, hand-woven rug Greek Myths, slides from Greece Greece: A Great Adventure Teaching Unit with special help for teaching to English as a second School language Learners |
| Rome | Roman Myths The Living Past Spindle Stories I Roman Pompei |
| China | Bronzes, posters of terra cotta Sian warriors, scrolls, Chinese poetry, language lesson, rubbings from ancient vessels Chinese Mythology Stories, Lessons, visuals |
| Grade 7 | |
| Islam | Video: Mosque, lessons, activity, examples of discrimination, stories |
| Early Modern Times | China: clothing, artifacts, stories, lessons, scroll Japan: clothing, artifacts, stories Africa: lessons, clothing, textiles, artifacts, visuals, stories, stamps for stamping cloth from Ghana and India |
| Religions of China | References ⁄ stories Confucianism and Buddhism, India and Japan, carved Buddhist figure in the peace ⁄ non-violence position |
| Grade 8- Us History and Geography ⁄ constitution | |
| Paul Robeson singing "Ballad For Americans" with Chorus and Orchestra. Eleven minutes of music and visuals of historic people and the wonderfully diverse people who built our country. Its was sung at a Republican Convention in the ´40s, when "Ballad For Americans" was sung on the radio it received more mail than any other radio production | |
| Bill of Rights Slavery Civil War ⁄ Abolitionists Immigration |
Lessons, cartoons Lessons artifacts from Africa demonstrating culture wrenched away when Africans were shackled by slave traders. Lessons ⁄ biography´s of Abolitionists Immigrants from many countries tell their stories many by youth, including mixed backgrounds. |
| Indian removal ⁄ Jackson 1828, Lewis and Clark | References |
| Cherokees | Before the Trail of Tears culture lesson and village model. |
| Mexican settlements ⁄ slavery landgrants | Land grants ⁄ video: The Milagro Bean Field War |
| Civil War ⁄ Abolitionist | Stories |
| Industrial revolution ⁄ child labor, working conditions, laissez-faire policies toward labor movement, strikes, protests over labor conditions | Simulation of Assembly Line ⁄ child labor today. Videos of overseas sweat shops |
| Inventors | African American Inventors |
| Grade 9- Elective Courses in History-Social Science | |
| Our State in the Twentieth Century | Materials from Vietnam National Memorials including books and poetry. More material from Vietnam: photos, legends, artifacts, instruments |
| Physical Geography World Regional Geography The Humanities Comparative World Religions |
Use corn husk dolls from around the world as intro Literature from Africa, Latin America Material on Islam, Christianity, Buddhism etc. |
| Area Studies: Cultures | Stories, novels, proverbs, artifacts, visuals, slides, lessons from Central America, Mexico, China, South East Asia, Southern Africa, West Africa, East Africa Oldevai Gorge, etc. Cave painting replica from Africa in picture and on rug. fossil rocks |
| Anthropology Psychology Sociology Women in Our History Ethnic Studies |
East Africa Intro Subsistence or Survival, a Simulation Activity Posters, bio´s Native American, Chinese, South East Asians, Africans, Indigenous Latin Americans |
| Law-Related Education | Material related to Bill of Rights ⁄ Constitutional Law |
| Grade 10- World history, culture, geography ⁄ the modern world | |
| Vietnam War | Materials from Vietnam National Memorials including books and poetry |
| Western; Greek | Puppet made by Greek prisoners during Fascist reign with pattern so it can be replicated, spindle and cotton, hand-woven cloth, rug, slides |
| Human rights | Reference materials on Human Rights Abuses in many parts of the world. Many videos on sweatshop labor, child labor, etc |
| Africa, Mexico, China and Latin America | Artifacts, stories, slides, lessons from Africa, Mexico, China and Latin America |
| Grade 11- Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century | History of the ouster of Jews from Spain for royalty to get money for Columbus ..Some went to Mexico |
| Role of religion | Maryknoll´s perspective on the history of Christian Missionaries in the world |
| Intolerance: Mormons, Catholics and Jews
WW2 ⁄ integration of defense industry and armed forces |
Primary Source story of Mormons flight West and life of non-Mormon (Jack Mormon) family in a Mormon rural town in Utah. Also tells the transformation when factories come to town from a woman´s perspective. |
| Civil Rights 19th and 24th amendments of 1965 Races in California in the 1960s Immigration from 1960 |
Video on Civil Rights Movement, bios of many participants, visualsAudio of origins of women's rights (Seneca Falls) Changing Demographics Recent Immigrants Stories including teens |
| Vietnam War | Materials from Vietnam National Memorials including books and poetry |
| Grade 12- Principles of American democracy and economics | |
| Structure meaning from the forms of illegitimate power that 20th century African, Asian, and Latin American dictators used to gain and hold office,and the conditions and interests that supported them | Felt board lesson to demonstrate how people in power talk to each other and make decisions that benefit them but not the majority of the people List of US interventions in Latin America Grass roots economics activities |
| Uncover the ideologies, causes,stages and outcomes of major Mexican, Central and South American revolutions of the 19th and 20th centuries | Nicaragua: a case study...primary sources, artifacts and references and resources from Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala as well. |
| Rate the successes of relatively new democracies in Africa, Asia and Latin America and the ideas, leaders and general societal conditions that have launched and sustained or failed to sustain them. |
Hunger activities demonstrate the failures and the role dominant nations play, and results of international debt. Activities that young people have done to make a difference |
| Economics; world trade and WTO | Many participatory economics lessons, plus lesson on WTO with posters, clippings and photos and first hand experiences in Seattle |