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| Series Summary This 11-program series helps students think about culture in new ways as they explore their own complex and ever-evolving cultural identities, and discover Wisconsin's cultural heritage and diversity. Click Watch Now to view any 15-minute episode, or click Teacher Guide for a PDF version of the teacher guide for each program. |
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| 1 | Everywhere, Everyone | Find out that there are many ways to think of culture beyond race, ethnicity, or the arts. | 
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| 2 | Family Kaleidoscope | Examine the roles that various types of families play in establishing, sharing, and preserving culture. |
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| 3 | Places With Faces | Discover how the environment influences culture as people interact with natural and human-made places. |
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| 4 | Growing New Roots | Explore how and why people adapt their cultural identities when they move to a new place. |
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| 5 | Many Voices | Look at various ways people express their culture both verbally and non-verbally, including dance, clothing, and composing music. |
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| 6 | Embracing Traditions | Consider how private and public celebrations and traditions among ethnic groups are different and how they are the same. |
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| 7 | Look Again | Learn where stereotypes come from, how they affect people, and what can be done to stop them. |
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| 8 | The Journey | Study the journeys that immigrants, exiles, migrants, refugees, and slaves made as they traveled to Wisconsin and explore how these journeys have affected our cultural identities. |
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| 9 | From Melting Pot to Mosaic | Investigate how cultural identities change as people make choices about which aspects of their culture to keep, modify, or discard. |
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| 10 | Beyond Borders | Identify how people in Wisconsin are connected with people in other countries and how people can make the world a better place. |
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| 11 | New Dawn of Tradition | Experience this powwow held in 1998 by all the American Indian Nations living in Wisconsin to celebrate their history and culture with dancing, singing, and drumming. |
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