Quilt Of Cultures
AMERICA IS A QUILT OF CULTURES
TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR "QUILT OF CULTURES"
Learning Activities for Students Grades 3-4
"Quilt of Cultures" is a unit of activities designed to help students define culture especially in relationship to the African American culture during and after slavery.
Standards of Learning for Virginia Public Schools that are met by a visit to the site and the learning activities.
History and Social Science: 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.7, 4.1, and 4.3
Mathematics: 3.14, 3.21, 3.22, 4.13, and 4.19
English: 3.1, 4.1, 4.3, and 4.9
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Pre-Visit Activities
Designed to help students become familiar with the terms used in activities and on their trip.
After doing research, students will construct a bulletin board that has to do with different cultures.
Students will research different cultures.
Students will do a survey of the most popular music in your school. Results will be placed on a bar graph.
Students will immerse themselves in the study of a culture.
Post-Visit Activities
Students will bake cornbread.
Students will collect recipes from cultures around the world and hold a banquet so that others can sample their wares.
Students will identify people and terms brought forth in the program.
Students will learn several songs that would have been sung during Booker's boyhood.
Students will make a quilt that shows what they have learned about Booker T. Washington and the slave culture.