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...
Vermont Folklife in the Seasonal Round

Vermont Folklife in the Seasonal Round

by | Sep 30, 2024

Student Research and Discovery: Sense of Place through the 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 interviewing community members....

Folk Sources and New Narratives in Oklahoma

by | Sep 20, 2024

This packet represents one part of a three-year study engaging the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre through primary sources. Included in these lesson plans and units of study are discoveries, tools for teaching, activity prompts, and deep pedagogical engagement from oral...