Cross-Cultural Activities in the Classroom
These learning activities are based on an Indigenous Aztec framework of learning and are taught at our partner schools in Uganda and Colorado. The goals of these activities focus on sharing and understanding the differences and similarities between students, families, and cultures in both places. The projects lead to understanding the importance of community, global awareness, and action.
Pre-K & Kindergarten
Starting with the youngest children, students learn to understand simple attributes about themselves and who they are to discover their own person.
First & Second Grade
First and Second-grade topics cover understanding the importance of belonging and connectedness within families, schools, communities, and other places students spend time.
Third - Fifth Grade
Third-grade students use art and writing to show and explain attributes of who they are. This activity helps students to understand the importance of where people come from and how specific life events shape who they are. Fourth-grade students begin to learn how they can look at their communities, country, and world to understand and recognize the need for change and how they can make a difference. Students in fifth grade engage in self-reflection to express how they have connected to their families, schools, and communities, and see the growth they have made through the years.
Middle School
Middle school students have the opportunity to complete our “upper primary” lessons that are used in Uganda, which focus on life transitions from childhood to adulthood and intentional forward-thinking processes.