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Want to build a stronger classroom community?
Build strong relationships with your students and their families!
Explore cultures and identity with this comprehensive Cultural Identity Unit. This unit includes everything you need to teach an engaging unit, where students explore the factors that contribute to their personal identities and build connections with their classmates and families.
Limited-Time Offer: $15.80 $13.40
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What’s Included?
✦ A 2 to 3-week-long comprehensive unit about cultural identity
✦ Over 200 pages of lessons, slideshows, projects, activities, and crafts
✦ 1 ZIP file organized into 6 lessons by topic
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6 Cultural Identity Lesson Plans
6 Slideshows with detailed discussion guidance built into the slides
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8 Cultural Identity Projects
14 Activities (more details below)
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Quick-Grade Project Rubrics
Answer Keys and Student Samples
Editable Parent Letter
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Unit Pacing Guide
Unit Overview with Learning Targets
Standards Alignment Guide
Before/After Unit Writing Reflection
Bonus ‘About Me’ Phone Feed Craft with Rubric
Lessons & Project-Based Learning
Lesson 1: What is my Cultural Identity
Create a foldable that shares aspects of cultural identity, like family, cuisine, geography, and more.
Lesson 2: My Name Story
Design a polaroid snapshot that folds up to share information about your name. Write the story of your name along with a self-portrait.
Lesson 3: Family History and Heritage
Design a Family Chronicle, with a family tree, family recipe, an interview with a family member, and family photos.
Lesson 4: Design a Uniform
Design a uniform for an international sporting event that reflects your culture.
Lesson 5: Draw Your Typical Lunch
Draw a typical lunch in your culture and reflect about the food traditions in your culture.
Lesson 6: Design a Home
Design a home for a mystery culture using clues, then write about how the house is built for the culture.
Unit Bonus: Craft and Writing Reflection
Total Pages 100 slides & 100 lesson pages
Answer Key Included with Rubric
Teaching Duration 2-3 Weeks
Here are a few of the MANY life skills that your students will learn:
✅ Explore and describe factors that contribute to their identity, like names, family, food, clothing, and homes
✅ Give examples of how experiences may be interpreted differently by people from different cultures
✅ Describe the ways that homes, clothing, families, and names serve as expressions of culture
✅ Develop personal identities in the context of their families, peers, schools, and communities
✅ Build community, and develop empathy and acceptance for classmates who may have different cultural practices
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FAQs
Q: What grades is this unit for?
This unit is designed for grades 3-5, although we've had positive reviews all the way through 10th grade.
Q: How much does it cost?
The unit is typically $15.80, but you can get 15% off with the code CULTURE15.
Q: How long is the unit?
It includes 16 lesson plans, each about 90 minutes long.
Q: Where does it fit in my curriculum?
This Cultural Identity Unit can be taught at any time during the year, but it’s a great way to build classroom community at the beginning of the year.
Q: What kinds of activities are included?
There are many fun activities, crafts, and projects for you to pick and choose from. Students will design a family tree and write a family recipe. They’ll research the origin story of their name. They’ll design a house for a mystery culture, and they’ll learn about foods eaten in different parts of the world. Each activity is designed to build life skills, like respect, discussion, critical thinking, and observation, that will support them throughout life.
Q: How much prep is this resource?
I've done the heavy lifting by creating the teaching content and breaking concepts down in a kid-friendly way. The unit includes:
Step-by-step lesson plans
Teaching slides with discussion questions to teach the content
Worksheets, activities, crafts, games, and projects to practice the concepts
Rubrics, answer keys, and student samples
Exclusive Unit Bonuses: Unit Pacing Guide, Unit Overview with Learning Targets, Standards Alignment Guide, Before/After Written Reflection, Bonus ‘About Me’ Phone Feed Craft with Rubric
Everything you need (except craft supplies)
Q: Will my students like this unit?
Teachers love this unit because it simplifies complex skills in a way that’s accessible for students and builds strong relationships between students, teachers, and families. Some of the projects involve families through interviews and family history projects. Try it and see why teachers love this unit!
Q: Can this resource be used with Google Slides?
The content is taught through teaching slides, discussions, and hands-on projects. You may upload the teaching slides into Google Slides via File > Import slides. The slide notes contain background information and discussion guidance for teachers.
Q: If I buy the full curriculum, will I get this unit for free?
Yes! If you purchase our full-year curriculum, this unit is included. Save 40% off when you buy our full-year social studies curriculum.