Multicultural Education: Lesson Plans

Encourage students to engage in crafts, teach them about significant figures in Black history, and celebrate with your class using these Black History Month activities for elementary and middle school.

Carmen travels to many places around the globe. By tracing her trail, students can learn to read and follow a map. Along with using some of HMH’s free online resources, you can incorporate her travels into geography and history studies.

Explore holidays and related activities with students as part of your spring world languages curriculum.

Teaching about other cultures and their holidays is a fun way to incorporate activities into your World Languages curriculum and transport your students across the globe without leaving the classroom.

"The seasonal round provides a point of inquiry for students to examine in any subject area and can culminate in many projects, from developing weather graphs to choreographing a round dance. Students are introduced to the concept of the seasonal round, how traditions vary from season to season, and how the seasonal round contributes to the uniqueness of a place and a community."

A multicultural literature-based thematic unit. "Through books representing the following cultures: African-American in Sounder, Hispanic in Poems Across the Pavement, Japanese in Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, and Jewish in The Hiding Place, I hope to establish an appreciation and pride in my own students for their cultures and a respect for people of other cultures with which they are not familiar."