Postcard Museum

by | Jan 21, 2026

Invite people to stand in a circle. Hand each person a postcard and instruct people to examine the front, which will be visible to all, and the back, which may provide further information that only they see. Explain that everyone is going to build a museum exhibit...

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...

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...

Art and Narrative

by | Sep 18, 2024

This curriculum guide explores the relationship arts education and teaching with primary sources that come out of ethnographic documentation and often feature folk and traditional arts. Learning Objectives Access new primary source sets developed with Visual Arts and...

Oral History in Interpretation and Museum Education

by | Sep 18, 2024

This Curriculum Packet was designed for a Teaching with Primary Sources workshop titled “Oral History and Interpretation” offered by Local Learning in partnership with Vermont Folklife and Washington State Parks. Learning Objectives Access new primary...