Multicultural Topics

• Multicultural Children's Literature

  This site provides links to some of the best multicultural Children’s Literature sites on the Web.

• Paper Clip Movie

  Information and clips from a powerful movie on tolerance! Changing the World… One classroom at a time.

  Something amazing happened in the town of Whitwell, TN; a town where the population peaks at about 2,000 people and where the word “skyline” is epitomized in breathtaking views of the rustic Smoky Mountains. The citizens of this rural Tennessee community are almost exclusively white and Christian; the town was not accustomed to cultural diversity. But in 1998 that all changed with a classroom project at Whitwell Middle School. The “Paper Clips” project sparked one of the most inspirational and profound lessons in tolerance, in one of the most least likely places.

• Paper Clip Project Information

  This is what Wikipedia says about the Paper Clip Project.

• Awesome Library-great resource for all!

  This site is universally appealing for all stakeholders-teachers like new lessons, parents, students,etc. You will really like the A-Z topics! Plus there is lots of reading practice for students with neat visuals.

• Celebrating Cultural Diversity

  This web site contains links to annotated bibliographies of children’s multicultural books appropriate for the elementary grades (kindergarten through grade six). Cultural groups currently listed include: African Americans, Chinese Americans, Latino/Hispanic Americans, Japanese Americans, Jewish Americans, Native Americans, and Korean Americans.

• How to Select Multicultural Literature

  Great information to get started on this topic!

• Hands-on Mathematics + Multicultural Education = Student Success

  The instructional vehicles for teaching multicultural education and basic math concepts … and to see the use of fractions beyond textbooks and math worksheets…