Foodways Icebreaker

by | Jan 21, 2026

Have you ever heard something through the grapevine? Or been called a good egg? This activity highlights a variety of ways that food appears in our cultural expressions, and may introduce you to sayings you’ve never encountered before!

Two-Minute Interviews

by | Jan 21, 2026

Procedure • Divide the class into pairs. • Ask each pair to decide who will go first and second. • Tell students they’re going to listen to each other talk for two minutes about a particular topic. Select a topic that relates to a lesson theme or a cultural...

Mexican Puppetry

by | Oct 10, 2025

We have provided a level of detail in this curriculum that will give guidance to teachers working with a theater artist in your community in teaching the lessons with your students. Mexican Puppetry is a middle school ELL 34 lesson cross-curricular folk arts...

Liberian Storytelling

by | Oct 10, 2025

This folk arts integrated unit partners with a folk artist, Gbahtuo Combaye, who was born and raised in Liberia. He is in residence for 10 sessions to tell stories with each of our sixth grade English Language Arts (ELA) classes. The Sections of the Curriculum 1. Unit...