LibGuides: Multicultural Education: Lesson Plans

Lesson Plans

9 Fun Black History Month Activities for Elementary and Middle School Students
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.
Activities for Newcomers
Activity-based tips to help English language learners who are new to your classroom.
Asia Society: Education & Learning
A place to find lesson plans and classroom activities about Asia. Users can scroll through the list of plans to find those of interest to you. Many of these lessons include links to related readings, images, or classroom activities.
Carmen Sandiego in the Classroom: Cross-Curricular Solutions and Ideas
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.
Cultivate an Appreciation of French Cultures Through Their Holidays
Explore holidays and related activities with students as part of your spring world languages curriculum.
Cultivate an Appreciation of Spanish Cultures through Their Holidays
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.
Culturally Relevant Lesson for African American Students
Culturally relevant activity for grades 6-12 which can be incorporated into a unit based on the parallel struggles in South Africa and the United States. The content and instructional methods place the African Diaspora experience at the center of learning and provide a way for teachers to tap into the thinking of their students.
Heritage Teaching Resources from Smithsonian Education
The Smithsonian offers "thematically arranged teaching resources" that correspond to federally mandated Heritage Months.
Immigration: The New Americans
Based on the PBS Independent Lens mini-series, this site offers lesson plans for grades 7 through 12 on issues surrounding immigration.
Multicultural Day/International Market
Useful at all grade levels. Concepts taught are: looking up information, learning about other cultures, and money.
Native American Unit in the Classroom
Ideas for activities to study Native American history.
Native American Cultures Across the U.S.
eaching children about the First Americans in an accurate historical context while emphasizing their continuing presence and influence within the United States is important for developing a national and individual respect for the diverse American Indian peoples, and is necessary to understanding the history of this country.
Seasonal Round
"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."
Teaching Tolerance
This site offers classroom activities for all grade levels and subjects. Topics are inclusive and diverse, ranging from African American history to the truth about Islam, and from bullying gay students to debunking myths regarding immigration.
Learning to Respect Differences through Cultural Diversity in Literature: Teaching Acceptance
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."