Peoples of the Nation and World 4th/5th: Indicator #1

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Students will understand the diversity and commonality, human interdependence, and global cooperation of the people of the United States and the world through a multicultural and historical perspective.

In the context of Maryland up to contemporary times and United States history through 1790, students are able to do everything required at earlier grades and are able to:

Describe and compare the cultural characteristics of different groups of people.

A resource for information on different countries and cities
http://www.steveweb.com/80clicks/controls/TourIndex.html?1

A lesson plan that uses pictures to compare the lifestyles of Native Americans past to present. http://www.ncrtec.org/tl/camp/native/native1.htm                           

To understand culture, it is important to understand the important celebrations of the culture. This lesson plan helps to understand an important celebration from the Latin American culture
http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/TLresources/longterm/LessonPlans/Byrnes/Day.html
  

A lesson plan that teaches about cultural clues and understanding children and people from other cultures. Click on 'instructional resources' then 'lesson plans', and scroll to the title, "Clues to Cultural Values" for the lesson plan
http://www.askasia.org/for_educators/fe_frame.htm
 

A unit of lesson plans on cultural stereotyping. Click on 'instructional resources' then 'lesson plans', and scroll to the title, "An Integrated Unit on Cultural Stereotyping" for the lesson plans
http://www.askasia.org/for_educators/fe_frame.htm 

If you are going to do investigations of Native Americans, especially their technology, you will find a host of resources here:
http://www.nativeweb.org/NativeTech/

An electronic field trip of Colonial Williamsburg
http://www.pbs.org/williamsburg/voteasvoice/
 

The Maryland Historical Society provides information and tours to school groups and teachers. Information from their site and a visit to the Society will help to design learning activities for indicator #1
http://www.mdhs.org/edupub.html
 

Discovering History through Archeology lesson plans from the Smithsonian
http://educate.si.edu/resources/lessons/art-to-zoo/arch/cover.html
 

This lesson plan helps us to see how our culture uses Spanish words and terms to name our cities, towns, states etc.
http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/guides/honduras/honspanish.html

A virtual walking tour of Plimoth Plantation http://archnet.asu.edu/archnet/uconn_extras/historic/plimoth/plimoth.html

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