Curriculum & Lesson Plans

 

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Arab American National Museum

Lesson Plans for Elementary, Middle and High School, including lessons such as:

  • From Homeland to Home: Arab American Immigration History
  • The Power of Representation: Arab and Arab American Stereotypes in the Media
  • Beyond Aladdin: Media Literacy and Stereotypes About Arabs and the Arab World

Pacific Preparatory School has an amazing page with links to many different ways to celebrate Arab American Heritage Month from Spotify playlists, dance tutorials on YouTube to book lists and multimedia resources

Free Lessons from Teachers Pay Teachers

PBS Learning Media Videos & Lessons written by Edward Curtis and have been peer reviewed by multiple curriculum designers

  • Arab Hoosiers who Shaped Indianapolis
  • Arab American Food Traditions
  • Arab American Immigration, 1880-World War I
  • Anti-Immigrant Discrimination in the Early 1900s
  • The Founding of St. George Syrian Orthodox Church
  • Arab American Military Service in World War II
  • Helen Corey: Arab American Political Pioneer in the 1960s
  • The Long History of Arab American Physicians
  • Contemporary Anti-Arab Prejudice and Discrimination

 

American Federation of Teachers – has a collection of many different lessons from Share My Lessons, Reimagining Migration, and Lee & Low Books

 

New York City Public Schools – Arab American Heritage Month

Book List

 

1001 Inventions- Discover a Golden AgeGoogle Arts & Culture

Banu Musa and the Science of Tricks

Imagining the House of Wisdom

Ibn Al-Haytham: The Man Who Discovered How We See

Al-Jazari’s Elephant Clock

And more!

 

Podcasts

 

Subscription Boxes

 

Museums

Arab American National Museum