Diversity in Second Grade
Michelle Hunt
Linda Hicks
ED 417
Ohio Strands
Contents
1. American Heritage Activities
2. American Heritage Web Sites
3. People in Societies Activities
4. People in Societies Web Sites
5. World Interactions Activities
6. World Interactions Web Sites
7. Decision Making & Resources Activities
Contents
8. Decision Making & Resources Web Sites
9. Democratic Process Activities
10. Democratic Process Web Sites
11. Citizen’s Rights & Responsibilities Activities
12. Citizen’s Rights & Responsibilities Web Sites
13. Science, Technology, & Society Activities
14. Science, Technology, & Society Web Sites
American Heritage Activities
1.) Chart occurrences of different cultures into similar
times.
2.) Place special occasions of a culture on a time line.
3.) Develop a group project for display in a multi-cultural
festival.
4.) Compare and contrast a student’s current culture to
the same culture 100 years ago.
5.) Explain the daily life of a historical figure of cultural
diversity when they were a child.
American Heritage Web Sites
1.) http://www.ausbcomp.com/redman/hopi.htm
A site about Indian holidays and historical figures.
2.) http://www.shakunage.org/
Info on the Japanese culture.
3.) http://www.ubp.com/
Site of African American info on art, culture, and figures.
4.) http://www.hispanic.com/
Famous Hispanics.
5.) http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/slavedata/index.html
Information on the slave movement..
People & Societies Activities
1.) Create a Venn Diagram of two individual cultures.
2.) Participate in festivals of a culture, exploring games,
food, and traditions.
3.) Using a map students will show where a culture
originated from and the path taken to America.
4.) Explain what would change in a student’s life if they
lived in a culture other than their own.
5.) Explore individual governments of different cultures
and explain how they work.
People & Societies Web Sites
1.) http://link.lanic.utexas.edu/menic/
Site for mid east w/ maps, language, etc.
2.) http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/
Info on Native Americans.
3.) http://www.maps.com/?AID=41160&PID=186662
Maps and games about countries.
4.) http://jin.jcic.or.jp/kidsweb/index.html
Kids page with information on Japan.
5.) http://www.jewfaq.org/toc.htm
Tons of facts on Judaism.
World Interaction Activities
1.) Draw a map of a country and give directions for
another student to “travel” from one place to another.
2.) Draw a map of a country and surrounding countries,
then cut them apart to make a puzzle.
3.) Draw a map of a country and of America in relation to
it. Trace the route immigrants took to get to America.
4.) Describe a natural disaster in another country and how
if affected the people and environment.
5.) Describe changes a student would experience coming
to Dayton, Ohio from another country.
World Interactions Web Sites
1.) http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maps/mapmenu.html
Native American information including maps.
2.) http://nationalatlas.gov/natlas/natlasstart.asp
Making maps of U.S.
3.) http://www.pacificnet.net//jue/docs/asam.html
Asian American facts on historical people and the culture.
4.) http://www.etown.edu/vl/
Resource for searching International info.
5.) http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east.html
Maps of the Middle East.
Decision Making & Resources
Activities
1.) Make a list of resources obtained from another country
and explain how those resources are or are not helpful to
America.
2.) Make a bar graph showing how many students in the
class use a particular resource from another country.
3.) Make-up a resource to sell and devise a plan to
promote and sell the product.
4.) Name a resource from another country and explain
how our area would be affected if it no longer existed.
5.) Describe what could be substituted for a resource if
that resource was no longer available.
Decision Making & Resources
Web Sites
1.) http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/countries/china/societyandculture/
Yahoo search for Chinese facts.
2.) http://www.encarta.msn.com/products/info/Africana.asp
Encarta’s search for African information.
3.) http://www.lib.uci.edu/rrsc/sasian.html
Resources about countries and people of South East Asia.
4.) http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/faces.html
Site of African Americans in Science.
5.) http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~mideast/inMEres/inMEres.html
TONS of info on Arab American issues.
Democratic Process Activities
1.) List some laws from another country and explain why
they were made.
2.) Explain how laws are enforced in another country.
3.) Create a simulation of the government of a country
and demonstrate the creation and passing of a law.
4.) Compare and contrast the law process of another
country to that of America.
5.) Explain what would happen if a particular law was
eliminated.
Democratic Process Web Sites
1.) http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/
Info on Native Americans.
2.) http://www.jinjapan.org/
Info on Japan.
3.) http://www.msnbc.com/news/AFRICA_Front.asp
MSNBC site for Africa info.
4.) http://www.viet.net/
Vietnamese web site.
5.) http://www.shakunage.org/
Info on the Japanese culture.
Citizenship Rights &
Responsibilities Activities
1.) Explain a crisis or hardship felt in a country and tell
what you would do to help ease the problem.
2.) Develop a travel poster for a country working with a
group of students.
3.) Students will delegate jobs to each other while
researching topics about a country.
4.) Explain the type of government of another country.
Tell if that way is fair to all the people who live there.
5.) Create your own government and have other students
tell if your way is fair to all people.
Citizenship Rights &
Responsibilities Web Sites
1.) http://www.thehawksnest.com/html/nativein.html
Index of Native Americans.
2.) http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/maria/Apachewomen.html
Info on Apache women and their accomplishments.
3.) http://www.hispaniconline.com/
Hispanic current events.
4.) http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/meres.htm
Documents on Middle Eastern issues.
5.) http://www.kamilat.org/
Issues that affect Muslim women.
Science, Technology, &
Society Activities
1.) Research the internet on an invention invented outside
of the U.S.
2.) Create a word search on the internet using a list of
vocabulary words from the study of a country.
3.) Explain the weather pattern of another country and
compare it to the weather in the U.S.
4.) Research a historical figure from a country on the
internet and explain how they affected history.
5.) Become a pen pal with a student in another English
speaking country.
Science, Technology, &
Society Web Sites
1.) http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/
Make word searches.
2.)http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/ethnicstudies/jewish_american_res
ources.html
Info on resources about Jewish Americans.
3.) http://www.cacf.org/
Coalition for Asian American children and families.
4.) http://www.pacificnet.net//jue/docs/asam.html
Asian American facts on historical people and the culture.
5.) http://www.weather.com/
The Weather Channel site.
Conclusion
The activities and web sites listed previously could be
organized into weekly activities with each week
focusing on a particular country or culture. The
activities are to promote the awareness and acceptance
of cultural differences among all people.