January 2003

Regional Focus:All Nations
*All programs last 1 hour and 15 minutes unless otherwise specified.
**Supplemental curriculum information and a fax registration form may be found on our website: www.iaff.ttu.edu

Program J.1:Flags – Their Significance and Symbolism*
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*Interactive Student Participation
*Duration 1½ hours
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Wednesday, January 22
9:30a.m. or 12:30p.m.
Thursday, January 23
9:30a.m. or 12:30p.m.
Grades:3-6
TEKS Strands:Citizenship; Culture; Geography; Government; History; Social Studies (See correlation in Appendix)
TEKS Skills:Solving Problems and Making Decisions; Reading and Writing; Locating and Analyzing Information
Content:Cooperative Learning; Hands-On Participation; Research; Arts and Crafts; PowerPoint Presentation; Student
Presentation of Completed Project
Presenters:Ms. Sylvia Jones, DPE Assistant Director, Dr. Lari Dianne Young, DPE Senior Director, and Mrs. Dianne Crowley,
DPE Educational Coordinator

Students attending this program will have their work displayed in the galleries of the International Cultural Center (ICC) and will be invited with their families to a reception honoring their work during the month of March for “Art in the Schools Month.” This highly interactive, multisensory research-based program is a three-fold project engaging the students’ knowledge and imagination. First, the students will attend a short PowerPoint lecture on the “History and Significance of Flags” throughout the world and will be introduced to traditional flag components and design. The students will then proceed to the inspiring Hall of Nations to work in discussion groups to create their own country and design its flag based on information supplied to each group by the DPE. The student groups will discuss and define their country’s form of government, language, ethnic base, climate, location, population, economy, history, etc. and how they feel those elements determine the design of their flag. After designing and creating their flag, each group will present and describe their new country and flag to the entire group of students in attendance. This program will involve the critical higher order thinking skills including comprehension, synthesis, analysis, application and evaluation.

Program J.2:From Stones to the Euro – Money through the Ages*(FY2003 Debut DPE Signature Program)
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*Interactive Student Participation
*Duration 1½ hours
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Tuesday, January 28
9:30a.m. or 12:30p.m.
Grades:2-6 - Age-Appropriate Groupings will be established based on reservations made and program will be
adjusted to grade-level ability.
TEKS Strands: (See correlation in Appendix)
TEKS Skills:Solving Problems and Making Decisions; Reading and Writing; Locating and Analyzing Information
Content:Cooperative Learning; Hands-On Participation; Research; Arts and Crafts; PowerPoint Presentation
Presenters:Ms. Sylvia Jones, DPE Assistant Director, Dr. Lari Dianne Young, DPE Senior Director, and Mrs. Dianne Crowley,
DPE Educational Coordinator

In our newest DPE Signature Program, From Stones to the Euro – Money through the Ages, your students will begin the program by viewing a short PowerPoint presentation giving a brief outline on the history of money. They will then encounter the Euro, a new currency introduced on January 1, 2002 in 12 countries of the European Union, and will conclude the program by participating in a group project to create a new currency for the Americas. Students will learn that following the domestication of cattle and cultivation of crops between 11,000 and 8,000 years ago, some societies used the cattle as capital. Other ancient societies traded rice, tea or cocoa beans, or whales' teeth, cowrie shells and stones. As the Roman Empire covered much of the known world, our monetary vocabulary is derived mainly from Latin. The early colonists adopted the use of wampum from the Native Americans, and, during the 18th century, tobacco leaves, salt, dried fish and feathers became legal tender. Barter systems existed in parts of the world until the 1960s, but today trade is carried out worldwide in currencies.

Program J.3:Gateway to America - The Immigrant Experience on Ellis Island*
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*Interactive Student Participation
*Duration 1½ hours
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Wednesday, January 29
9:30a.m. or 12:30p.m.
Thursday, January 30
9:30a.m. or 12:30p.m.
Grades:2-8
TEKS Strands:Citizenship; Culture; Geography; Government; History; Social Studies (See correlation in Appendix)
TEKS Skills:Making Decisions; Reading and Writing; Using Technology; Locating and Analyzing Information
Core Knowledge Correlation:History/Geography 2nd, History/Geography 6th
Content:Cooperative Learning; Primary Source Materials; Role-Playing/Interactive Participation; Video; PowerPoint
Presentation; Student involvement throughout the program
Presenters:Various Facilitators Including: Former Immigration Officer Mr. James Nesmith, DPE Senior Director Dr. Lari Dianne
Young, DPE Assistant Director Ms. Sylvia Jones, and DPE Educational Coordinator Mrs. Dianne Crowley

Ellis Island is a symbol of America’s immigrant heritage. For more than six decades-1892-1954-the immigrant depot processed the greatest tide of incoming humanity in the nation’s history. Fleeing hardships such as poverty, religious persecution, or political unrest in their homelands, they journeyed to the United States in search of freedom and opportunity. Some twelve million people landed at Ellis Island; today their descendents account for almost 40% of this country’s population. This highly interactive, creative and research-based program will find students matriculating through a “Virtual Ellis Island” created within the International Cultural Center of Texas Tech University. As incoming immigrants from Europe at the turn of the century, students will receive passports or papers as they enter the facility which will serve as their identity during their visit and will determine which class of immigrant they are and where they are from which, in turn, will determine their experience during matriculation. Students will then use their papers to be matriculated through the Cultural Center as they would through Ellis Island as immigrants and will use what they have learned to guide them successfully through the process of becoming an landed immigrant. Finally, students will view primary-source footage of the actual process the immigrants went through as the students reflect on their similar experience at the ICC. This program incorporates primary source materials and involves the critical higher order thinking skills including comprehension, synthesis, analysis, application and evaluation.