Visions of America: Learning Guides
Library and Museum Youth Programming Manual
Looking for simple hands-on workshops for children ages 5-13 to foster learning? PBS Books has you covered.
PBS Books partnered with the Institute of Museum and Library Services to create an award-winning series, Visions of America (VOA). VOA shares and celebrates lesser-known American stories as we approach America’s 250th anniversary—Cuban Americans, Asian Americans, Japanese Americans, African Americans, Arab Americans, and Native Americans. PBS Books designed one-hour workshops for children librarians and museum educators to offer hands-on experiences and enabling your young people to delve into the lives and culture of lesser-known Americans. Whether it is celebrating a heritage month or just sharing outstanding stories to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary, look at our Visions of America Library and Museum Youth Programming Manual for your next program idea. It is free and created by professionals like you who developed what they wanted to use in their classroom.
Classroom Learning Guide
Educators, this school year inspire your secondary school students with a classroom education guide including video clips, lesson plans, and student activities based on the Visions of America: All Stories, All People, All Places series.
The accompanying classroom educational guide was designed to provide Social Studies and English Language Arts teachers the opportunity to bring these unique voices and stories into their classrooms and has been arranged topically into standards-based learning plans to help teachers and their students meet learning objectives
Take students on a rich and diverse journey with video clip highlights featuring stories of Cuban Americans, Asian Pacific Americas, Negro Leagues Baseball, American Jazz, First Americans, and more while learning about the institutions that safeguard and share these uniquely American tales. Across 8 thematic sections such as Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens, Unity and Culture and Identity, students will be prompted to contemplate essential questions.
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Listen to the Visions of America Music Playlists
Music brings stories alive! Consider adding these curated playlists to your programs. There are many ways to use music to deepen connections with stories. You could have music playing while your audience assembles to view an episode. You could share the playlists on your social media. You could make a quiz game out of the song titles. To deepen engagement with the stories of each VISIONS OF AMERICA episode, enjoy these curated music playlists.
Instructions: How to Listen to the Playlists
Booklists
Read along with VISIONS OF AMERICA.
Freedom Tower – Youth Booklist
Wing Luke Museum – Booklist
Wing Luke Museum – Youth Booklist
18th and Vine – Booklist
18th and Vine – Youth Booklist
