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...

Yoga Curriculum

by | Sep 16, 2025

This unit was inspired by Nisha Arya’s book Yoga Tales: Asanas & Animal Fables from India (available at Amazon ). Nisha selected a collection of traditional Panchatantra animal fables and connected them to animal yoga poses. The fables are accompanied by fun...

FACTS School-Wide Folk Arts Residency Spiral Curriculum

by | Sep 16, 2025

Welcome to the Folk Arts – Cultural Treasures School (FACTS) and the Philadelphia Folklore Project’s (PFP) teachers’ guide for a school-wide folk arts residency. Here we share our experiences about an approach to education that we believe matters, our thinking about a...