Mexican Puppetry

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

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

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

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...
Culture, Community, and the Classroom: Beekeeping

Culture, Community, and the Classroom: Beekeeping

TITLE: Bee Yourself (Beneficial Bees) AUTHORS AND TEACHERS: Sarah Edwards and Nina Muto Sarah Edwards is an elementary art teacher at Windsor C.R. Weeks Elementary School in Windsor, NY. Nina Muto is a guidance counselor at Windsor C.R. Weeks Elementary School in...