teaching about other cultures HOW!!!

[singingmum]

I've not travelled and I don't know a lot about other countries and cultures.Can anyone reccomened any text books or just any websites etc that could help am at my wits end trying to figure this one out.Also does anyone know why hope educations websites down
need books from them but cannot get their website up.

Anyone? PLLLLEEEEEAAAASSSEEE!!!!

have you thought about finding keystage appropriate material based on a calendar which shows multiple celebrations for different cultures? eg. diwali (hindu) i think last weekend was the persian new yr, etc.

then designing an appropriate project to fit in with said theme. it is a way to combine say: religion or art or history and art.

or music and history.

also look for exhibitions in art galleries or museums, etc. which will be able tie in with groups.

even going to an thai restaurant can be the basis of multiculturalism - a mexican meal is a way of finding out what foods came from the Americas - and then to find out what foods were introduced from Europe and Africa to the americas.

i suppose this way you are promoting cultures tying them into topics you already have to teach. not making it another subject area.

I've got a good pop-up book about different religions. I'll see if I can find it.

Its called "All Kinds of People: A lift-the-Flap Book" by Emma Damon. Its good for younger ones and key stage 1.

here is a good place to start

bbc learning may be handy for all sorts of things so browse it.

what about channel 4 learning too?

Thanks.
Hardest thing is have ds12 and dd6.Teaching both age appropriate can be awkward and I just think it'll be good to teach them together sometiomes,this seemed to be the one subject where it may be possible.

here is another place to go to. i hope i am not pointing out the obvious.

you can give them age appropriate materials to read and then they do a project together?

or get the older one to do the reading and he must then design a piece of learning material for his younger sibling? eg, a poster which he then has to explain to the younger one what it is all about?

he is then learning other life skills by doing the teaching, including improving his knowledge by teaching it.

Not at all.Thanks.
Have looked before but always seemed to get confused.Norm fit in research for sites etc. between sounds of "Mum, where's the paint pots?" or
"Which book was I doing this time last week?"

Am not organised at mo due to spring cleaning.One day I might find everything.

Is this any good - Peace Corps site for kids . You can click on the country and then read about customs/daily life. It's not that detailed though.

aroundtheworld

go to the Fairtrade website as well for multicultural ideas. it ties in with food, healthy living - a current theme which ofsted is inspecting for in schools, RE and science as well as culture.

Something we have done in the past is to get a big map of the world and then look through the food cupboard and mark on the map where each item of food comes from. You can combine this with learning about each country that the items come from if you wish. Handas surprise is a good book to read with younger children, and we made it into a project by looking at different fruit, where they came from, cutting them open, finding seeds or pips etc, growing on from the seeds, looking at what animals might eat the fruit, looking at what people farm the fruit, you can do it to whatever level your children are at, so you might want to look at airmiles food travels and the environemental consequences of that with the older child, but more about how fruit disperses seeds with the younder etc.

I found the Dorling Kindersley books "A child just like me" invaluable, there are 2 or 3 in the series which have a page per child, telling about their life and their family and country, from all around the world.