Cultural Lesson Plans for Teachers about the ... - Brown University

LESSON PLAN TWO — TEACHER INSTRUCTIONS
Activity One: Readings
Depending on the reading levels of the students in your class, you may choose to use the
previous readings as information for yourself to present to the class. You may also use the
readings as shared, group, or independent reading exercises.
One option is to break the class up into teams of four to five students. Make each team
responsible for reading one cultural section. Each team will then discuss their reading and
list key points to present to the class.
Activity Two: Locating the Three Cultures on a Map
• As a class, have students locate Guatemala on a classroom map. Ask them to identify the
mountains where the Highland Maya live.
• Ask students to locate China, Laos, North Vietnam, and Thailand on a map. Ask them to
locate Mongolia, Siberia and Tibet, where the Hmong came from. Have them recall when
the Hmong lived in this area.
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• Ask them to locate the Mekong River on the border between Laos and Thailand. Have them
recall when the Hmong left Laos for Thailand and why.
• The Kiowa and Comanche lived in many different places in the western United States.
Using a map of the United States or a map of the western United States, have your students
find Montana, where the Kiowa originally lived. Then have them find South Dakota and the
Black Hills.
• To show your students where the Comanche lived, have them find the Rocky Mountains
and Colorado. Have them recall when the Kiowa and Comanche lived in the northern and
western Plains.
• See if they can find where the Arkansas River is in the mountains in Colorado. Next, have
them find Oklahoma. Have them find where the reservation was in Oklahoma on the
classroom map. Explain that although the reservation ended in 1906, many Kiowa and
Comanche people still live in the same lands allotted to them there.
• Mark these locations on your classroom map with pins so students can refer to the map
throughout this lesson.
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