Lesson Plan Focus: Elementary
Lesson Plan Focus: Secondary
Arab American Stories is a 13-part series presented by Detroit Public Television that explores the diversity of the Arab-American experience. Hosted by NPR’s Neda Ulaby, each half-hour features three short, character-driven documentaries that profile Arab Americans making an impact in their community, their profession, their family, or the world at large. The accompanying viewing guides and lesson plans have been created to assist educators in positioning the episodes as part of lessons across
multiple disciplines. All lessons have been aligned to the new Common Core standards.
http://www.arabamericanstories.org/
multiple disciplines. All lessons have been aligned to the new Common Core standards.
http://www.arabamericanstories.org/
Children benefit most from their museum visit if educators infuse relevant lessons into their curriculum prior to and following the scheduled field trip. The Arab American National Museum created age-appropriate material that will assist teachers with integrating Arab culture and history into lessons that will facilitate student learning in the Arab American National Museum. Currently, the following lesson plans are available for educators scheduling a museum visit.
http://www.arabamericanmuseum.org/
http://www.arabamericanmuseum.org/
The assignment below is a fantastic cross-cultural examination created by the September 11th Anti-Bias Project, a joint initiative of the National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ) and the Chevron Texaco Foundation. The purpose of this booklet is to provide teachers with a framework to convey to their students an understanding of how prejudice, wartime hysteria and the actions of political leaders affected the lives of Arab Americans and Muslim Americans after September11, 2001. This understanding is illuminated by historic comparisons to the tragic experience of Japanese Americans following the attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Lesson plan focus: American Muslims
On February 14, 2002, Columbia University's Muslim Communities in New York City Project, supported by the Ford Foundation, hosted a one-day in-service training for over one hundred New York City high school teachers. This special program, (Re)embracing Diversity in New York City Public Schools: Educational Outreach for Muslim Sensitivity, provided teachers with a fully integrated mini-curriculum that addresses the problem of intolerance towards Arab-, South Asian- and Muslim-Americans in the wake of the tragic events of 9/11. Follow the link below for the helpful curriculum and website:
http://www.mei.columbia.edu/research.shtml
Lesson Plan Focus: the Middle East
Scholars from the University of Chicago developed this comprehensive teacher resource to provide an overview of Middle Eastern cultures and their contributions to the world.
http://teachmiddleeast.lib.uchicago.edu/
http://teachmiddleeast.lib.uchicago.edu/