MAY 2003

Regional Focus:Mexico/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 MY.1:Why We Celebrate Cinco de Mayo in America*
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RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Monday, May 5
9:30a.m. or 12:30p.m.
Grades:9-12 *Pre-College Lecture Format
TEKS Strands:Citizenship; Culture; Economics; Geography; Government; History; Social Studies (See correlation in Appendix)
TEKS Skills:Making Decisions; Analyzing Information
Content:Lecture, PowerPoint, and Question and Answer
Presenter:Dr. Jorge Iber, Associate Professor, Department of History, Texas Tech University

This informative and timely Pre-College Lecture Format presentation will deal with issues of identity formation and change in identity over time. Dr. Iber will provide a brief overview of French interference in Mexico and the historic and psychological significance of the events of May 5, 1862 for Mexicans, and Mexican Americans. The primary focus of the presentation will be how barrio dwellers in the United States celebrated this holiday and how these observances varied from location to location (throughout the Midwest and Southwest) and over time (from 1900 to the present).

Program MY.2:Calculation Across Cultures and History*
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*Interactive Student Participation
*Duration 2 hours
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Tuesday, May 6
9:30a.m.
Grades:4-6
TEKS Strands:Arithmetic, Culture, Geography (See correlation in Appendix)
TEKS Skills:Number and Operation
Core Knowledge Correlation:Math 4th-6th
Content: PowerPoint Presentation, Primary Source Materials, Interactive Participation
Presenters:Include Dr. Padmanabhan Seshaiyer, Assistant Professor, and Dr. Carl Seaquist, Associate Professor, both of the
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech University with help from the undergraduate and graduate mathematics clubs at Texas Tech University.

Methods for organizing arithmetical calculations have varied across cultures and history. Students will move from one center to participate in the following: learning different ways to keep track of “borrowing” when doing subtraction, how to organize long division, practice learning to use both the Russian and the Oriental abacus, and learning to use specially marked rulers to do addition and multiplication. Facilitators will emphasis historical, language, and cultural aspects of the techniques taught.

Program MY.3:Experience Japan!*
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*Interactive Student Participation
*Duration 1½ hours
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Wednesday, May 7
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; Analyzing Information; Solving Problems
Core Knowledge Correlation:History/Geography 2nd
Content: Presentation, Video, Artifacts, Music, Arts & Crafts, Interactive Group Activities, Question and Answer
Presenter: Mrs. Dianne Crowley, DPE Educational Coordinator

Dianne Crowley studied Japanese culture and visited Japanese schools during her tour of Japan through the Fulbright Memorial Fund Program. She spent two weeks on the northern island of Hokkaido and a week in Tokyo. Mrs. Crowley presents a program that includes traditional Japanese games, both modern and traditional Japanese music, and demonstrations of Japanese cultural artifacts such as dolls, toys, kimonos, and artwork. Students will experience the sights and sounds of Japan through photographs and video. This will include scenes taken from elementary, junior high and high schools she visited on her tour. Hands-on, make and take activities may include: geography activity, learning to use chopsticks, Origami and math activities with Japanese currency. This highly interactive program will stimulate the senses as the students take a virtual tour of “Japan, Land of the Rising Sun.”

Program MY.4:Texas Tech Recognizes Electrical Safety Month – Be Safe Through Knowledge! – Presented by the South Plains Electric Cooperative (SPEC)*
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED *Space is limited with reservations taken on a first-come-first-served basis only by calling the DPE at 742-0426 or fax at 742-1347. This program will take place at the Lubbock office of the South Plains Cooperative located at 110 North I-27 – maps will be provided with confirmed reservations and lunch will be provided free of charge courtesy of SPEC.
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Friday, May 9
One program only - 9:30a.m.–1:00p.m. (Duration 3½ hours-lunch included-space is limited)
Grades:3-6
TEKS Strands:Culture; Geography; History; Science, Technology and Society; Social Studies (See correlation in Appendix)
TEKS Skills:Making Decisions; Analyzing Information
Content:Video, Live Demonstrations, Question and Answer and Lunch
Presenters:Employees of the South Plains Electric Cooperative (SPEC) office

During a four-part program presented by the South Plains Electric Cooperative (SPEC) office, SPEC employees will perform a skit to demonstrate the danger of overhead power lines when fishing, hunting or flying kites. They will use a mini-transformer/power line rig to teach the different dangers of contacting overhead power lines. The unit produces 5,000 volts, which is less than what's produced by a power line, although the sparks and fire generated are used to show the students the danger of electricity. Other SPEC employees will demonstrate pole top and bucket truck rescues. This part of the program is designed to illustrate the techniques that crewmembers use when an accident occurs. Rounding out the four-part presentation will be an electrical safety video presentation. The program, which includes a generous lunch courtesy of SPEC, helps SPEC promote May as electric safety month. SPEC, which was organized in 1937, serves 38,000 connected meters in 6,600 square miles of Childress, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Foard, Garza, Hale, Hall, Hardeman, Hockley, Kent, King, Lamb, Lubbock and Lynn counties. The Division of Public Education of Texas Tech University is grateful to the employees of SPEC for this opportunity to collaborate to increase awareness of the dangers of electricity for students on the South Plains.

Program MY.5:Experience Stories From Around the World with Texas Commission on the Arts Touring Artist Loralee Cooley
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RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Monday, May 12
9:30a.m. or 12:30p.m.
Tuesday, May 13
9:30a.m. or 12:30p.m.
Grades:K-6 - Age-Appropriate Groupings will be established based on reservations made and program will be
adjusted to grade-level ability.
TEKS Strands:Culture; Geography; History; Social Studies
TEKS Skills:Making Decisions; Analyzing Information
Content:Storytelling and Participation
Presenter:Ms. Loralee Cooley, Storyteller, Texas Commission on the Arts Touring Artist Roster

Returning to the International Cultural Center by popular demand, Texas Commission on the Arts storyteller Loralee Cooley brings stories alive with her vivid and exciting storytelling techniques. Come and join us as we travel the world, covering every populated continent, by visiting one country from each continent including Australia, China, France, Mexico and Liberia. Hear a story, sing a song, and learn a few words from another language....all in this exciting journey. Flags and maps will be displayed to involve students in the journey as they learn the meaning of the popular Australian folksong “Waltzing Matilda,” hear a newly-discovered story from China entitled “Phantom Bride,” and visualize the Mayan story “The Rainplayer” among other exciting storytelling treats.

Program MY.6:Gateway to America - The Immigrant Experience on Ellis Island*
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*Interactive Student Participation
*Duration 1½ hours
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Monday, May 19
9:30a.m. or 12:30p.m.
Tuesday, May 20
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.