Teaching Tools and Resources
CARTS
CARTS (Cultural Arts Resources for Teachers and Students), a site sponsored by City Lore and The National Task Force on Folk Arts & Education, provides a host of materials and information for teaching and learning.
Historical Speeches Archive
The Multicultural Pavilion hosts this collection of links to several defining speeches in human rights history.
Historical Speeches Archive
The Multicultural Pavilion hosts this collection of links to several defining speeches in human rights history.
International E-Mail Classroom Connections
This free service links teachers and their students to other classrooms around the world for e-mail exchanges and project collaborations.
Multicultural Resources for Children
The highlight of this collection of tools from the education school at James Madison University is a series of multicultural bibliographies by Wendy Lanehart and Inez Ramsey.
Multicultural Song Index
A collective of educators and activists collaborated to create this index of popular songs that can introduce dialogue on various multicultural issues in the classroom. Categories include "Race and Racism," "Gender and Sexism," "Social Class," "Religion," "Age," and "Education."
Vandergrift's Children's Literature Page
"An acquaintance with and an understanding of literary characters is one of the first ways a young chiuld has of making sense of what it is to be human." Kay Vandergrift offers a host of wonderful resources pertaining to children's literature including lists of books with positive portrayals of women, African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Hispanic Americans.