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The Hearst Museum provides resources that support Grades K-12 State History/Social Science Content Standards.
The Museum currently has five teaching kits available for loan to schools; California Indian Food and Culture, Ishi: A Yahi Indian, Yoruba Art and Culture, Mexican Folk Art, and Chinese Folk Art, Festivals, and Symbolism in Everyday Life.
To reserve a teaching kit, please call (510) 643-7649 Monday through Friday between 9:00 am - 5:00 pm or email lbruemmer@berkeley.edu Reserved kits can be picked-up and returned to the Museum during regular business hours (special arrangements may be made to pick up and drop off kits in the Museum Store on the weekends). A $25.00 late fee will be charged to any teaching kits returned after their scheduled due date.
California Indian Food and Culture
The contents include: an illustrated teaching guide; reproductions of objects used in food preparation and eating; an audio cassette recording of a traditional acorn song; a teacher's resource guide and bibliography. Additional copies of the curriculum guide are available for loan.
 California Indian Food and Culture (PDF)
(2.67 MB PDF)
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A California Indian Resource Guide 2003-2004
Activities and References for Teachers (PDF)
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Ishi: a Yahi Indian
The contents include: an illustrated teaching guide; an audio cassette recording of Ishi singing songs and telling stories; a reproduction of an arrow similar to one Ishi would have produced; a set of slides; Ishi's Tale of Lizard, translated by Leanne Hinton with illustrations by Susan Roth. Teacher resources include Ishi the Last Yahi: A Documentary History, edited by Robert F. Heizer and Theadora Kroeber and the VHS Documentary Ishi: The Last Yahi produced and directed by Jed Riffe and Pamela Roberts.
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This guide is also available online in PDF format for download. If you do not have adobe acrobat please download it here. www.adobe.com/products/acrobat
Ishi: A Yahi Indian (1.87 MB PDF).
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Yoruba Art and Culture
The Yoruba are one of the largest cultural groups in Africa. The Yoruba people live on the west coast of Africa in Nigeria and in the eastern Republics of Benin and Togo. The Yoruba have been living in advanced urban kingdoms for more than 1,500 years. They have created a strong economy through farming, trading and art production. Their outstanding and unique artistic traditions include woodcarving, sculpture, metal work, textiles and beadwork.
Because the majority of the slaves brought to the Americas were from West Africa, Yoruba descendants can also be found in Brazil, Cuba, the Caribbean and the United States. There are also many Yoruba living in Britain. Currently, there are about forty million Yoruba world-wide.
The contents include: a full color teaching guide with learning materials on early Yoruba history and culture; food, agriculture and employment; traditional religious beliefs; divination; music; dance and the Yoruba in modern day Nigeria and in the Diaspora. The kit also includes a tape of Yoruba music and a short video demonstrating the creation of traditional Yoruba woodcarving, weaving and pottery. Examples of teaching kit objects that students may handle in the classroom include various wood and calabash carvings along with leather and beaded bags.
Yoruba Teaching Kit (3.0 MB PDF).
Mexican Folk Art
The contents include: a full color teaching guide and various Mexican Folk Art objects to complement the guide.
Also included are the following publications: "Mexican Folk Art" a Dover Coloring Book; "Cut and Make Mexican Masks" by A.G. Smith and Josie Hazen; and "Magic Windows" by Carmen Lomas Garza.
*Please note: this teaching kit is also available in Spanish.*
Mexican Folk Art (5.0 MB PDF)
Mexican Folk Art in Spanish (5.0 MB PDF)
Chinese Folk Art, Festivals,
and Symbolism in Everyday Life
The contents include: a full color teaching guide with lessons on Chinese folk arts, symbolism, and
holidays. Objects in the kit include: New Year decorations, a pair of children's shoes, papercuts, lanterns, and more. Additional teacher resources include the books: Moonbeams, Dumplings and Dragon Boats (a treasury of Chinese holiday tales, activities, and recipes) by Niana Simonds, Leslie Swartz, and the Children’s Museum, Boston; Making Chinese Papercuts by Robert and Corinne Borja; Authentic Chinese Cut-Paper Designs, edited and arranged by Carol Belanger; Hands-on Heritage China (provides instruction, historical aids, and complete materials lists for learn-and-do activities) by Linda Milliken.
Funded by the Berkeley East Asia National Resource Center through its Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
Chinese Folk Art, Festivals,
and Symbolism in Everyday Life (4.45 MB PDF)
Vocabulary, Review Questions, and Suggested Resources for Teachers.
Once you have utilized a curriculum guide or teaching kit, please take the time to fill out the online evaluation form. Your evaluations help the Museum to develop resources that will best serve teachers and students.
Let us know what grade level and subject matter you teach and the types of kits you would like to see the Museum develop in the future. You will also receive announcements about upcoming events and programs at the Museum. Sign-up now.
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Links to other UC Berkeley Museum Education Sites:
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Essig Museum of Entomology
Lawrence Hall of Science
Museum of Paleontology
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
U. C. Botanical Gardens
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