American History Toolkit

Items

• Understanding Arab Refugees Unit Plan
  CreatorThe Arab American National Museum, located in Dearborn, Michigan, is the nation's only museum focused on connecting people to Arab Americans' history, art, and culture.

  PublisherEnglish
• Day in The Life of An Arab Youth: A Lesson Plan Using Stories to Learn About Places
  SOCIAL STUDIES: 2 – G4.0.3 Use components of culture to describe diversity in the local community.
  DescriptionSOCIAL STUDIES: 2 – G4.0.3 Use components of culture to describe diversity in the local community. 3 – G4.0.3 Describe some of the current movements of goods, people, jobs, or information to, from, or within Michigan and explain reasons for the movements.4 – G4.0.1 Use a case study or story about migration within or to the United States to identify push and pull factors (why they left, why they came) that influenced the migration.CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K-5.2 Determine the central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

  PublisherArab American National Museum
• Beyond Aladdin Unit Plan
  K – C5.0.1 Describe situations in which they demonstrated self-discipline and individual responsibility.
  DescriptionK – C5.0.1 Describe situations in which they demonstrated self-discipline and individual responsibility. 1 – G4.0.1 Use components of culture to describe diversity in family life. 2 – G4.0.3 Use components of culture to describe diversity in the local community. 3 – G4.0.2 Describe diverse groups that have migrated into a region of Michigan and reasons why they came (push/pull factors.) 4 – C5.0.3 Describe ways in which people can work together to promote the values and principles of American democracy.ELA-LITERACY: RI.K-5.2: Determine the central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas. RI.K-5.9: Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes/topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.

  PublisherArab American National Museum
• At Risk of Prejudice: The Arab American Community
  PublisherNational Council for the Social Studies
• Asian American Education Resource Database
  AHT note: all standards listed in the database are from Illinois. It is our hope that we will be able to align each resource in this database to Michigan standards, but we haven't had the opportunity yet.
  DescriptionAHT note: all standards listed in the database are from Illinois. It is our hope that we will be able to align each resource in this database to Michigan standards, but we haven't had the opportunity yet.

  PublisherAsian Americans Advancing Justice: Chicago