Folklife Resources for Educators
Materials Related to CelebrationThere are 13 titles in this list.
Bermuda Connections Cultural Resource Guide for Classrooms
by Ministry of Culture and Social Rehabilitation, Government of Bermuda http://www.communityandculture.bm/bermuda-connections
Educational guide for the K-12 curriculum with lesson plans, projects, and activities developed in connection with the 2001 Smithsonian Folklife Festival featuring the culture of Bermuda. The guide is composed of thirteen chapters introducing students to the cultural arts and heritage of Bermuda, including celebration, foodways, hospitality, play, performance, occupation, artistry, Bermudian identity, maritime life, musical traditions, and the effects of globalization. In addition, the guide provides guidance on doing interviews and fieldwork plus resources for further study and documentation of Bermudian community culture. Curriculum materials are intended for use in Bermuda, but could easily be adapted for classrooms elsewhere. (259 p. PDF)
Grade Level: K-2; 3-5; 6-8; 9-12 |
Curriculum: Performing Arts; Music; Language Arts; History and Social Studies; Art and Culture |
Resource Type: Lesson plans; Activities |
Language: English |
Subjects: Festivals; Occupations--Folklore; Music; Folk music; History; Bermuda--Social life and customs; Fieldwork (Educational method); Interviewing; Maritime culture; Holidays; Folklore; Foodways; Celebration; Play; Hospitality
Geographic locations: Bermuda |
Sponsoring Organization: Ministry of Culture and Social Rehabilitation, Government of Bermuda 81 Court Street Hamilton, Bermuda HM 12
(441) 292-1681 http://www.communityandculture.bm/
Other Organizations:
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Suite 2001 MRC 520 Washington DC 20024
(202) 633-6440 http://www.folklife.si.edu/
Choctaw Dances
by Echo: Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations http://www.echospace.org/articles/123/sections/189
Curriculum resources for exploring three types of Choctaw dances—social, animal, and war—that serve to bind Mississippi Chocktaw communities, honor the natural environment, and express cultural solidarity. An accompanying video illustrates some current traditional activities that connect the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians with their past, including dance, the use of traditional instruments, and participation in games such as stickball. Curriculum ideas can be used in the classroom for teaching social studies, dance, music, geography, and physical education.
Grade Level: All ages |
Curriculum: Performing Arts; Math; Language Arts; History and Social Studies; Art and Culture; Sports and Recreation |
Resource Type: Video recordings; Lesson plans |
Language: English |
Subjects: Music; Celebration; Dance; Mississippi--Social life and customs; Indians of North America; Choctaw Indians; Games; Musical instruments
Geographic locations: Mississippi |
Sponsoring Organization: Echo: Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations
http://www.echospace.org/
Cultural Protocols in Everyday Life
by Echo: Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations http://www.echospace.org/articles/353/sections/899
Middle and high school classroom activities and web-based resources for the study of the cultural protocols or preferred behaviors that everyone uses in their lives. Using the themes of cross-cultural communication and cultural change, curriculum ideas incorporate examples of celebration and cultural forms of conduct from native groups in Massachusetts and Hawaii that can be used in the classroom to discuss these issues in a wider context. Includes links to photographs, video clips, and documents drawn from several museum collections. Curriculum materials conform to National Standards for Geography and can be used for teaching Social Studies, Language Arts, and History.
Grade Level: 6-8; 9-12 |
Curriculum: Art and Culture; Geography; Language Arts; History and Social Studies |
Resource Type: Activities; Primary sources; Video recordings |
Language: English |
Subjects: Celebration; Intercultural communication; Wampanoag Indians; Culture; Hawaii--Social life and customs; Massachusetts--Social life and customs; Indians of North America
Geographic locations: United States; Massachusetts; Hawaii |
Sponsoring Organization: Echo: Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations
http://www.echospace.org/
Folklife and Folk Art Education Resource Guide
by Fife Folklore Archives http://library.usu.edu/Folklo/edresources/index.html
Guide created in 1997 with lesson plans and activities related to teaching a general folklife and folk art curriculum for the upper elementary school grades. It also provides background on the diverse ethnic, occupational, and regional traditions of the state of Utah. Included in the guide are sample cultural surveys for fourth and fifth graders to use in doing fieldwork plus activities such as hosting a folklife fair. Some of the many traditional arts areas explored are cowboy poetry, children's folklore, occupational folklore, foodways, celebrations, and verbal folklore genres.
Grade Level: 3-5; 6-8 |
Curriculum: Language Arts; History and Social Studies; Art and Culture |
Resource Type: Lesson plans; Activities |
Language: English |
Subjects: Crafts; Folklore; Material culture; Utah--Social life and customs; Children--Folklore; Cowboys--Poetry; Oral tradition; Fieldwork (Educational method); Folk art; Folklore--Fieldwork; Occupations--Folklore; Foodways; Celebration
Geographic locations: Utah; General |
Sponsoring Organization: Fife Folklore Archives Utah State University Libraries Logan UT 84322-3000
(435) 797-2869 http://library.usu.edu/Folklo/index.html
Food and Culture, Past and Present in Choctaw Culture
by Echo: Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations http://www.echospace.org/articles/173/sections/421
Curriculum resources for grades 4-12 that explore the effects of colonization, cultural interaction, and change on the local foodways of the Mississippi Choctaw culture. Topics covered include how food choices are influenced by the geography and ecosystems of a cultural group’s homeland, how cultural celebrations and ceremonies are related to available food resources, and how a group’s ways of obtaining food has changed since European contact. Curriculum suggestions and activities conform to National Standards for English Language Arts, Geography, and History.
Grade Level: 3-5; 6-8; 9-12 |
Curriculum: Art and Culture; Geography; History and Social Studies; Language Arts; Science |
Resource Type: Lesson plans; Activities |
Language: English |
Subjects: Ecology; Mississippi--Social life and customs; Celebration; History; Indians of North America; Health; Food; Foodways; Choctaw Indians; Intercultural communication; Ethnobotany
Geographic locations: Mississippi |
Sponsoring Organization: Echo: Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations
http://www.echospace.org/
Iñupiaq Whale Hunt
by Echo: Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations http://www.echospace.org/articles/137/sections/207
Curriculum resources for grades 5-8 that explore the role of the whale hunt among the Inupiat people along the Chukchi Sea of northern Alaska. Topics covered include how the whale hunt nourishes the Inupiaq people and sustains and builds community. An accompanying video with discussion questions illustrates Inupiaq subsistence hunting and fishing and demonstrates how whaling fulfills many of the nutritional, economic, social and cultural needs of Inupiaq life. Curriculum suggestions can be applied to the areas of social studies, history, language arts, and geography.
Grade Level: 3-5; 6-8 |
Curriculum: History and Social Studies; Geography; Art and Culture |
Resource Type: Video recordings; Lesson plans |
Language: English |
Subjects: Geography; Hunting; Whaling; Alaska--Social life and customs; Indians of North America; Inupiat; Food; Foodways; Celebration; Environmental sciences; Fishing
Geographic locations: Alaska |
Sponsoring Organization: Echo: Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations
http://www.echospace.org/
Jubilation! : African American Celebrations in the Southeast
by Digital Traditions http://www.digitaltraditions.net/html/J_Resources.cfm
Educator guide that explores the special nature of African-American celebrations within the family and community, and encourages students to discover their own cultural heritage. It focuses on rites of passage and community celebrations among African Americans in the Southeastern United States, with guidance in documenting celebrations and doing oral history. Includes lesson plans, activities, teacher background, and a bibliography of adult and children's literature. The guide is geared towards students in grades 3-12. (51 p. PDF)
Grade Level: 3-5; 6-8; 9-12 |
Curriculum: History and Social Studies; Art and Culture |
Resource Type: Lesson plans; Activities |
Language: English |
Subjects: United States--Social life and customs; Folklore--Fieldwork; Rites of passage; Southern States--Social life and customs; African Americans; Holidays; Family--Folklore; South Carolina--Social life and customs; North Carolina--Social life and customs; Celebration
Geographic locations: Southern States |
Sponsoring Organization: Digital Traditions Folklife Resource Center, McKissick Museum Columbia SC 29208
(803) 777-3714 http://www.digitaltraditions.net/Index.cfm
Other Organizations:
McKissick Museum University of South Carolina Columbia SC 29208
(803) 777-7251 http://www.cas.sc.edu/mcks/
Louisiana Voices : An Educator's Guide to Exploring our Communities and Traditions
by Paddy Bowman, Sylvia Bienvenu, Maida Owens http://www.louisianavoices.org/edu_get_start.html
Comprehensive resource guide for K-12 educators on the folklife of Louisiana. Although written for Louisiana, lessons and activities are adaptable to any region. The guide contains forty two lessons and many activities in nine units, correlated to Louisiana Content Standards, particularly those in English Language Arts and Social Studies. Units include: 1) Defining Terms; 2) Classroom Applications of Fieldwork; 3) Discovering the Obvious; 4) The State of Our Lives; 5) Oral Traditions; 6) Louisiana's Musical Landscape; 7) Material Culture; 8) The Worlds of Work and Play; and 9) The Seasonal Round and the Cycle of Life. It includes over 1000 pages, some in PDF-format, and links to many essays, slide shows, video and audio clips, and other web resources.
Grade Level: K-2; 3-5; 6-8; 9-12 |
Curriculum: Science; Music; Math; Language Arts; History and Social Studies; Art and Culture |
Resource Type: Lesson plans; Activities |
Language: English; French; Spanish |
Subjects: Interviewing; Play; Performance; Celebration; Seasons; Family--Folklore; Games; Place-based education; Inquiry-based learning; Folklore--Fieldwork; Folklore; Music; Foodways; Louisiana--Social life and customs; Oral tradition; Storytelling; Material culture; Occupations--Folklore; Rites of passage; Holidays; Crafts; Decorative arts
Geographic locations: Louisiana; General |
Sponsoring Organization: Louisiana Voices Louisiana Division of the Arts Baton Rouge LA 70804
(225) 342-8180 http://www.crt.state.la.us/arts/
The Men Who Dance the Giglio - Teaching Guide
by Paddy Bowman http://www.folkstreams.net/context,277
Teaching guide for grades 10-12 to accompany an excerpt of the film “The Men Who Dance the Giglio,” created by filmmaker Jeff Porter in 1995. Nine minutes of the 28-minute film are chosen as a focus for the teaching guide. The film excerpt documents the Saint Paulinus Festival and its 2.5-ton giglio statue carried by 125 men in a Catholic religious procession through the streets of the Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y. The teaching guide and film explore the topics of community and neighborhood festivals, Italian American culture, ethnicity, and sacred and secular celebrations found in urban areas. The entire film is also available as streaming video on folkstreams.net.
Grade Level: 9-12 |
Curriculum: Language Arts; History and Social Studies; Art and Culture; Music |
Resource Type: Activities; Lesson plans; Primary sources; Video recordings |
Language: English |
Subjects: Educational films; Ethnographic films; Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Social life and customs; Community life; Ethnicity; Religious processions; Italian American Catholics; Religious life and customs; Urban folklore; Festivals; Italian Americans; Celebration
Geographic locations: New York (N.Y.) |
Sponsoring Organization: Folkstreams
http://www.folkstreams.net/
Oral Traditions
by Echo: Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations http://www.echospace.org/articles/127/sections/193
Curriculum resources for the study of Tlingit oral traditions for grades 5-8. The materials focus on the interconnections of story and dance in the Tlingit culture of Southeastern Alaska and include a video that features Tlingit oral tradition. Topics covered include how oral tradition tells us who we are, where we came from, and how it serves to communicate important cultural values. It also focuses on how the Tlingit people use art, song, dance, and storytelling to express their identity. Curriculum suggestions conform to National Standards for English Language Arts.
Grade Level: 6-8 |
Curriculum: Performing Arts; Music; Language Arts; History and Social Studies; Geography; Art and Culture |
Resource Type: Video recordings; Lesson plans |
Language: English |
Subjects: Celebration; Tales; Dance; Music; Intercultural communication; Storytelling; Oral tradition; Alaska--Social life and customs; Tlingit Indians; Clothing and dress; Material culture; Indians of North America
Geographic locations: Alaska |
Sponsoring Organization: Echo: Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations
http://www.echospace.org/
The Seasonal Round
by Local Learning: The National Network for Folk Arts in Education http://locallearningnetwork.org/the-seasonal-round/
Curriculum unit that provides a point of inquiry for K-12 students to explore how seasonal changes reflect and influence daily life and culture, holidays, festivals, and personal, family and community celebrations. Includes ideas and activities for examining and documenting how traditions vary from season to season, affected by weather, agricultural patterns, ecology, religious practice, and the recurrent yearly cycles of human life.
Grade Level: K-2; 3-5; 6-8; 9-12 |
Curriculum: Science; Language Arts; History and Social Studies; Art and Culture |
Resource Type: Activities |
Language: English |
Subjects: Rites of passage; Farm life; Weather--Folklore; Foodways; Folklore--Fieldwork; Fieldwork (Educational method); Holidays; Festivals; Birthdays; Ecology; Family--Folklore; Seasons; Weather; Agriculture; Occupations--Folklore; Celebration
Geographic locations: [No specific location] |
Sponsoring Organization: Local Learning: The National Network for Folk Arts in Education c/o City Lore 72 East First Street
New York NY 10003 http://locallearningnetwork.org/
Show-Me Traditions: An Educators Guide to Teaching Folk Arts and Folklife in Missouri Schools
by Eleutario, Susan http://maa.missouri.edu/mfap/articles/showme_new.pdf
Educational guide with eight lesson plans and accompanying activities for fourth and fifth grade students that introduces concepts of folk arts and folklife in general and Missouri traditional art forms and artists in specific. The guide is organized as follows: Section I: Defining Folk Arts and Folklife; Section II: Discovering Folk Arts in Everyday Life; and Section III: Folk Artists in Missouri. Background information is provided on Missouri traditional arts and artists from the fields of Bluegrass music, Colombian-American dance and costume, Ozark riverways and boats, Irish-American music and dance, cowboy and spoken word poetry, German-American bobbin lace making, Missouri fiddling and old-time dance, and African-American storytelling. Site includes links to audio and video recordings plus additional background resources. Missouri curriculum connections are noted for Communication Arts, Social Studies, Fine Arts, Music, and Physical Education. (56 p. PDF)
Grade Level: 3-5 |
Curriculum: Sports and Recreation; Music; Language Arts; History and Social Studies; Art and Culture |
Resource Type: Lesson plans; Audio recordings; Activities; Video recordings; Primary sources |
Language: English |
Subjects: Fiddle tunes; Cowboys--Poetry; German Americans; Boats and boating; Fiddlers; Clothing and dress; Bluegrass music; Lace and lace making; Poetry; Ozark Mountains Region--Social life and customs; Storytelling; Folk music; Folk artists; Missouri--Social life and customs; Folklore; Folk art; Family--Folklore; Folk songs; Material culture; Celebration; Festivals; Dance; Legends; Oral tradition; Foodways; Community life; Place names; Colombian Americans; African Americans; Irish Americans; Interviewing; Names, Personal
Geographic locations: Ozark Mountains Region; Missouri |
Sponsoring Organization: Missouri Folk Arts Program 21 Parker Hall Columbia MO 65211-2330
(573) 882-6296 http://maa.missouri.edu/mfap/
Ways to the Heart: Food and Foodways in Hawai'i
by Echo: Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations http://www.echospace.org/articles/171/sections/401
Classroom activities, lesson plans, and background information for the study of Hawaiian foodways, food resources, and the cultural importance of food. Curriculum ideas cover the topics of how food serves as a means for survival, builds community, marks cultural identity, and provides comfort. Materials include links to other web-based resources on the topic. Curriculum suggestions can be used in the teaching of geography, cultural anthropology, and history.
Grade Level: 6-8; 9-12 |
Curriculum: Art and Culture; Geography; History and Social Studies |
Resource Type: Activities; Lesson plans |
Language: English |
Subjects: Plants; Hawaii--Social life and customs; Celebration; Foodways; Food; Culture
Geographic locations: Hawaii |
Sponsoring Organization: Echo: Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations
http://www.echospace.org/
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