"Thank you so much for letting us use the kit! The experimental
value of letting students familiarize themselves with cultural
artifacts of the Middle East is like no other. Again, from myself and
14 Western Pennsylvania area school districts, thank you." -- Magie
Hall, World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh
Request a Curriculum Kit
Our newest resource for educators features the New Year traditions of
the Persian cultural world. The Celebrating Nowruz kit consists of a
twenty-page curriculum text that introduces the holiday with several
hands-on activities that extend the curriculum's themes and allows for
students to reflect on their own traditions. The physical kit comes
with several books and a DVD for younger students, as well as some
specialty items for use with the curriculum's activities.
To download the curriculum text, please click here.
This kit can be customized to either elementary or junior high/high
school grades. The kit contains clothing from different countries,
artifacts, jewelry, music, videos, and maps. The elementary kit
includes workbooks, coloring books, puzzles, picture/story books,
non-fiction books about Arab lands and people, while the junior
high/high school kit contains music, books about teen life and pop
culture in the Arab world, and DVDs and videos about the ancient and
modern Arab world. Both kits contain a manual for teachers packed with
informational background notes, curriculum materials and student
activities.
The Outreach Center has created a curriculum kit in multiple copies
that can be sent to elementary and high school classrooms to encourage
educators and schools to include treatment of Ramadan in schools'
celebrations of multicultural holidays. The kits are broken down into
elementary and junior high/high school and includes literature and
lesson plans appropriate for grade levels, an explanation and activity
for understanding the lunar cycle and timing of Ramadan, descriptions
of festivities around the Muslim world with recipes from different
cultures traditionally prepared during Ramadan, and a craft project
based on the Egyptian fanoos, or Ramadan lantern.
To download the elementary curriculum text, please click here.
To download the junior high/high school curriculum text, please click here.
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