Education Standards
2. Who Are We - Appreciating Diverse Backgrounds and Cultures Through Music (editable)
SEL 3 Signature Practices Playbook | CASEL
SEL-Music Unit: Who Are We? Appreciating Diverse Backgrounds and Cultures Through Music
Overview
Through a sequence of activities using songs, creative movement, and picture books, students will learn about each others’ similarities and differences, gain an appreciation for cultural diversity, and identify ways that various social and cultural groups bring new ideas to society.
Unit Overview
Flexible Activities
The activities in this unit are deliberately presented in a flexible format, so teachers can take an idea and adjust it for their unique teaching situations. Each main activity is followed by suggested follow up ideas.
The broad state music standard listed here is “Performing,” but individual music teachers may prefer to adapt these activities to suit their own sequence and goals for their students.
The CASEL SEL 3 Signature Practices Playbook - A Tool That Supports Systemic SEL provides best practice guidance for creating lessons using the 3 Signature Practices.
Table of Contents
Lesson 1 - Same and Different
- Activity 1 - “Jump In, Jump Out!”
- Activity 2 - Same, Same, but Different
- Activity 3 - “Like” Charades
- Activity 4 - Magic Ears
Lesson 2 - Diverse Cultures
- Activity 1 - “We Like Spinach”
- Activity 2 - “Mary Wore Her Red Dress”
Attribution and License
Attribution
This lesson was developed by Betty Baeskens, Northshore School District.
SEL 3 Signature Practices Playbook copyright Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and developed by the 2016-2017 Oakland Unified School District SEL Team based on the 2013 work of CASEL Consultant Ann McKay Bryson. | License Agreement
Social Emotional Learning: Standards, Benchmarks, and Indicators developed for the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction by the SEL Workgroup is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Washington Arts K–12 Learning Standards by the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International License.
Cover image by Albrecht Fietz from Pixabay
License
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