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Program Length 18:00
Grades 4-6
Episode Title Embracing Tradition
Episode Description
Embracing Tradition - Children in the Exploratorium begin to think about private traditions when they see three families engage in variations on a theme: an extended family's birthday celebration; a Mexican-American girl's fifteenth birthday, called a quinceañera; and a family's observance of the day their adopted son arrived from Russia, which they call Coming Home Day. Later, a visit to a family's hunting cabin illustrates how important regional rituals often are derived from Wisconsin's landscape, geography, and climate. Finally, an example of a public celebration spotlights the African World Festival in Milwaukee. There, African Americans, people from many African nations, and others gather to express and observe African and African American culture and heritage. Keywords: Culture/Cultural Diversity/Ethnic Diversity/Multicultural Education/Wisconsin
Note: Teacher materials available online.
Broadcast Air Dates
07-JAN-2010 at 10:32 am
13-MAR-2010 at 2:32 am
13-MAY-2010 at 10:32 am
Wisconsin Model Academic Standards for this Episode
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