Folklife Resources for Educators
Materials Related to California
There are 6 items in this list. American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music
by Costa-Kim, Patricia http://americansabor.org/classroom
Classroom curriculum and educator resources for middle and high school students focused on Latino music and culture found in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Antonio, Miami, and New York City. Topics include the social and cultural history of Latino music, Latino music's impact on American popular culture, the vocabulary and styles of Latino music, and Latino musicians. Although created to accompany an exhibition of the same name, the educational materials can stand alone. The site includes lessons, activities, and word games, video and audio recordings, biographical information on Latino musicians, interpretive maps, and bilingual accompanying resources. Most of the materials on the site can be found in both Spanish and English and in PDF-format.
Grade Level: 3-5; 6-8; 9-12 |
Curriculum: Music; Language Arts; History and Social Studies; Geography; Art and Culture |
Resource Type: Video recordings; Primary sources; Lesson plans; Activities; Audio recordings |
Language: English; Spanish |
Subjects: United States--Social life and customs; Maps in education; Puerto Ricans; Mexican Americans; Hispanic Americans; Music; Popular music; New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs; Miami (Fla.)--Social life and customs; San Antonio (Tex.)--Social life and customs; San Francisco (Calif.)--Social life and customs; History; Hip hop; Salsa (Music); Rap (Music); Dance music; Dance; Immigrants; Cuban Americans; Merengue (Dance)
Geographic locations: United States; Texas; New York (N.Y.); Florida; California |
Sponsoring Organization: Experience Music Project 325 5th Avenue N Seattle WA 98109
(206) 770-2776 http://www.empmuseum.org/index.asp
Other Organizations:
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) 470 L'Enfant Plaza, SW, Suite 7103 Washington DC 22024
(202) 633-3168 http://www.sites.si.edu/
Indivisible Educator's Guide
by Center for Creative Photography http://www.indivisible.org/resources.htm
An educator's guide for K-12 students that combines photography and first-person narratives to explore community life, identity, and civic action (72 p. PDF). Lesson plans are available on taking documentary photographs, collecting oral histories, and analyzing gathered fieldwork documentation. It includes descriptions of twelve community documentation projects undertaken throughout the United States. Created in 2000 in connection with a national documentary project called "Indivisible: Stories of American Community." A selection of slides and an audio cd of excerpted project interviews accompanies the lessons.
Sponsoring Organization: Center for Creative Photography University of Arizona Libraries Tucson AZ 85721-0103
(520) 621-7968 http://www.creativephotography.org/
Other Organizations:
Center for Documentary Studies Duke University Durham NC 27705
(919) 660-3663 http://cds.aas.duke.edu/
Sacred Places: California Missions from Different Perspectives
by Carol Fischer http://www.getty.edu/education/teachers/classroom_resources/curricula/arts_lang_arts/a_la_lesson09.html
Curriculum guide for grades 3-5 which explores the concept of sacred places by looking at works of art representing sacred space and studying the California missions. Includes lesson plan, activities, and links to photographs and art works from the J. Paul Getty Museum's collections. The guide addresses California state standards for Visual arts, Language Arts, History, and Social Studies.
Grade Level: 3-5 |
Curriculum: Language Arts; History and Social Studies; Geography; Art and Culture |
Resource Type: Lesson plans; Activities; Primary sources |
Language: English |
Subjects: Spanish mission buildings; California--Social life and customs; History; Art; Religious life and customs; Decorative arts; Sacred space; Architecture; Hispanic Americans
Geographic locations: California |
Sponsoring Organization: J. Paul Getty Museum 1200 Getty Center Drive Los Angeles CA 90049-1687
(310) 440-7330 http://www.getty.edu/museum/
Red Alexander: Shipwright and Folk Artist - Study Guide
by Maria Hetherton http://www.folkstreams.net/context,279
Study guide for middle and high school students to accompany the film “Red Alexander: Shipwright and Folk Artist,” created by Archie Green and Chris Simon in 1998. The 25-minute film, available as streaming video on folkstreams.net, focuses on the life and craft of a retired shipwright whose exquisite models of working ships mirror his fifty-year career building ships on the Oakland Estuary in California. The guide can be integrated into social studies and language arts curricula and serves as an introduction for students to labor culture and history in its focus on an occupational community in the Bay Area.
Grade Level: 6-8; 9-12 |
Curriculum: Art and Culture; History and Social Studies; Language Arts |
Resource Type: Activities; Primary sources; Lesson plans; Video recordings |
Language: English |
Subjects: Ethnographic films; Ship models; Artisans; Folk artists; Labor history; Educational films; Occupations--Folklore; Older people; Oakland (Calif.)--Social life and customs; Oral history; Maritime culture; Shipwrights; Shipbuilding
Geographic locations: California |
Sponsoring Organization: Folkstreams
http://www.folkstreams.net/
Pilebutts: Working Under the Hammer – Study Guide
by Maria Hetherton http://www.folkstreams.net/context,267
Study guide for middle and high school students to accompany the film “Pilebutts: Working Under the Hammer,” created by Maria Brooks and Archie Green in 2003. The 28-minute film, available as streaming video on folkstreams.net, features the camaraderie and tough, risk-laden work of men and women of Oakland, California’s Pile Drivers Local Union Number 34, who drive the pilings for structures such as bridges, docks, freeways, and skyscrapers in the San Francisco Bay Area. The guide can be integrated into social studies and language arts curricula and serves as an introduction for students to labor culture and history in its focus on an occupational community in the Bay Area.
Grade Level: 6-8; 9-12 |
Curriculum: Language Arts; History and Social Studies |
Resource Type: Primary sources; Lesson plans; Activities |
Language: English |
Subjects: Pile drivers; Hazardous occupations; Ethnographic films; Labor unions; Labor history; Educational films; Construction workers; Oakland (Calif.)--Social life and customs; San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)--Social life and customs
Geographic locations: California |
Sponsoring Organization: Folkstreams
http://www.folkstreams.net/
Dust Bowl Migration -- Primary Source Set
by Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/dust-bowl-migration/
Photographs, recorded music, and song lyrics document the daily ordeals of rural migrant families from the Great Plains during a decade marked by both the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. The resources in this primary source set are intended for classroom use. Includes a Dust Bowl Migration Teacher Guide (8 p. PDF), photographs, and sound recordings collected at California migrant labor camps, and a link to primary source analysis tools.
Grade Level: 6-8; 9-12 |
Curriculum: History and Social Studies; Art and Culture; Music |
Resource Type: Primary sources; Audio recordings |
Language: English |
Subjects: United States--History--1933-1945; Labor history; United States--Social life and customs; Social history; Texas--Social life and customs; New Mexico--Social life and customs; Oklahoma--Social life and customs; California--Social life and customs; Music; Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939; Folk songs; Migration, Internal; Migrant agricultural laborers; New Deal, 1933-1939; Great Plains--Social life and customs
Geographic locations: Great Plains; United States; Texas; Oklahoma; New Mexico; California |
Sponsoring Organization: Library of Congress 101 Independence Avenue, SE Washington DC 20540-1300
(202) 707-5000 http://www.loc.gov/teachers/
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