Using Ethnography to Explore Culture in the Natural and Built Environments is an enrichment program for the middle school grades, home schooled students, and beyond. Students are provided classroom and field experiences to develop skills used by anthropologists and ethnographers to research culture. The program focuses on strengthening intercultural awareness by demonstrating the relationship that exists between man and his environment. This basic objective is accomplished by giving students the opportunity for direct observation and experience. Student activity includes observation in the...

The Student Ethnography Handbook is designed to accompany the enrichment program Using Ethnography to Explore Culture in the Natural and Built Environments. The enrichment program provides middle school and home schooled students with a carefully sequenced set of experiences aimed at developing a specific set of ethnographic research skills. The entire program is intended as a creative guide for teachers and students. Although It is not intended as a curriculum prescription to be followed in a lock step fashion, specific goals and lesson plans are provided. The program assumes that it will be...