The Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards in Social Studies represent the work of the Social Studies Standards Review Committee. This committee included K-12 teachers, administrators, college faculty, and representatives of educational and community organizations. Beginning in 2020, the Social Studies Standards Review Committee reviewed the 2011…

Presents a case study of the development of a multicultural-education class in Minnesota that was designed to help preservice teachers make their future classrooms multicultural. It briefly highlights the development of a college and school collaborative, presents student reactions to the program, and reveals follow-up activities to expand the…

Produced for college students, five bibliographies list emigration and immigration sources related to the peopling of Minnesota by Scandanavian groups (Swedes, Danes, Finns, Icelanders, and Norwegians). Over 400 citations identify books, articles, conference papers, diaries, personal papers of families, and historical society papers from the late…

The Indian Resource unit, a project of the Minneapolis Public Schools funded under a grant from Title III E.S.E.A., designed for upper elementary and/or secondary students, provides sound-filmstrip presentations of Minnesota Indian people so that teachers and students may develop a more relevant understanding of the Indian-American way of life.…

The Native American (NATAM) Curriculum Series, designed to serve non-Indian teachers conducting classrooms without American Indian students present, is described in this overview. Presented in outline form are samples of the units prepared by public school teachers from the Columbia Heights, Minnesota, school system who were enrolled in an Indian…

As 1 in a series of 24 American Indian biographies written for youth at the secondary level, this book details the social and professional development of George Morrison, an internationally known American Indian artist, who was born in a small Chippewa community in Northern Minnesota (1919) and began teaching art and American Indian Studies at the…

This paper examines the training requirements in the areas of multiculturalism and human relations for elementary and secondary teacher education candidates in South Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. The paper first briefly reviews the gradual inclusion of multicultural and human relations requirements on a national level. Requirements in the…

As a part of a final report of the National Study of American Indian Education, this survey was conducted among 8 elementary schools in Bloomington, Minnesota. The study was concerned primarily with conceptions held by white elementary school children about the American Indians. Secondly, it was hoped that the survey would provide broader insights…

Development of projects designed to improve curriculum programs of schools with American Indian student populations in Minnesota and to train teachers and adults to improve educational programs for Indians is discussed in this report by the University of Minnesota Training Center for Community Programs (TCCP). Among the major developments…