Culture
Cultural Anthropology is a subfield of anthropology that deals with culture. To introduce cultural anthropology, we teach the kids about morals, rites of passage, and symbols.
Lesson Plans
We recommend starting with Creating Culture: Building a Clan, as we use that as our introductory unit each year. We usually do a feast on the last day as a celebration of the end of our time together.
Creating Culture: Building a Clan
Documenting Culture: What is Ethnography?
Seeing Culture: Body Art and Modification
Creating Culture: Building a Clan
Documenting Culture: What is Ethnography?
Seeing Culture: Body Art and Modification
Common Core
Cultural anthropology would fall into the social studies subject. You can teach cultural relativism and ethnocentrism.
And example: 5th grade social studies curricula requires learning about the colonists and the founding of America. There was tension between Natives and Europeans because their cultural beliefs clashed. Europeans tended to be "ethnocentric" and thought of the native Americans as savages. Learn more about ethnocentrism in the Documenting Culture unit.
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And example: 5th grade social studies curricula requires learning about the colonists and the founding of America. There was tension between Natives and Europeans because their cultural beliefs clashed. Europeans tended to be "ethnocentric" and thought of the native Americans as savages. Learn more about ethnocentrism in the Documenting Culture unit.
Click here to learn more about Common Core.