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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.
What's Included:
Unit Details:
✦ 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
You’ll Receive:
✦ 6 Cultural Identity Lesson Plans
✦ 8 Cultural Identity Projects and 14 Activities (more details below)
✦ 6 Slideshows with detailed discussion guidance built into the slides
✦ Quick-Grade Project Rubrics
✦ Answer Keys and Student Samples
✦ Editable Parent Letter
✦ Exclusive Unit Bonuses: Unit Pacing Guide, Unit Overview with Learning Targets, Standards Alignment Guide, Before/After Identity 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 pages
Answer Key Included with Rubric
Teaching Duration 2-3 Weeks
Here are a few of the MANY 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