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Every Community, Every Story, Every Voice Curriculum

Welcome to “Every Community, Every Story, Every Voice!” The Michigan State University Museum is delighted to offer this engaging, museum object-based set of learning experiences designed for students in Grades 6-8. The main goal is to help students learn about what communicating and understanding themselves and others means in the context of their lives and communities. The guide includes ready-to-use lesson plans, resource materials, and more. It incorporates multiple academic areas, including English language arts, science, social studies and history, and visual arts.

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Four Lessons: 

  1. Identity: More than a Single Story by Laura Allen
    This lesson is designed to increase students’ self-understanding and their empathy for others, resulting in a positive impact on class culture and students’ lifelong social-emotional development.
  2. Breaking Through Obstacles: Exploring the “Anyone Can Fly”
    Quilt by Ben Pineda
    The purpose of this lesson is to help students understand how challenges in life are inevitable and that they can be successfully addressed.
  3. Power of Voice: Communicating Environmental Injustice through Art by Bridget Booth
    This lesson is focused on Native American baskets, which will help students learn about environmental injustice faced by Indigenous people, both historically and currently.
  4. Stereotypes: Exploring New Ways to Respond by Denice Blair, PhD
    The purpose of this lesson is to help students understand what stereotypes are and how they can harm others and create division by exploring historical stereotype images on postcards and trade cards from the 1860s-1910s from the MSU Museum’s collections.