Teaching Resources

Folk song collections for PreK-2 and 2-8 with Mari Schay's suggestions for teaching concepts and vocabulary, adding instruments, cultural info and performance tracks.

Barn Dance! by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault is the book to read. LeVar Burton visits a Tennessee hoedown, bluegrass music, and clogging lesson at an authentic barn dance.

The book by Jeanette Winter is the story of Peg Leg Pete and his work with the Underground Railroad. The video celebrates the road to freedom, and teaches about the history, heroes, stories and music of African-Americans.

In Eve Bunting's book a boy travels to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial with his father to seek his grandfather's name. 

In the book by Margaree King Mitchell, Uncle Jed, a black barber, struggles through the Great Depression to save enough money to open his own barbershop.

Hear the story of Peg Leg Pete and the Underground Railroad by Jeanette Winter and celebrate the culture that emerged from slavery with LeVar Burton on the DVD.