Level: All School – Rally Level – Fun, Energetic, Celebratory
Grades: K-2
School Quarter: 3
Related Grade Level Activities:
All-School Cultural Festival
Activity: Show and Share: Discovering Personal and Cultural Uniqueness
Inspired conversation topics:
- What’s a tradition?
- Bring or draw an object that is related to a tradition you like.
- Tell the class about the tradition
- How is New Mexico unique?
- What makes you unique?
Theme Alignment: Historical Reflection and Progress
Contemplating where New Mexico and the nation were 250 years ago, where we are today, and the journey taken to get here; and history as a lens to inform our futures.
Toolkit Overview (In this toolkit):
- Background
- Step-by-step guide or how-to checklist to implement a schoolwide festival
- Resources
Background:
In 1776, New Mexico already had multiple cultures contributing to the unique character of the region. Since then, people from all over the world have come to call New Mexico home.
How To:
Link to Implementation / How to
Resources
- NM History Museum Timeline
- NM Culture coloring pages links
In Classroom Activities:
- Overview of diversity of New Mexico’s population
- Point out lesser known histories, including black colony established in 1900s, Buffalo Soldiers
- European groups, including Italian and German
- Asian, particularly Vietnamese (after fall of Saigon), Korean, Filipino, Chinese, South Asian