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Web Resources
Lesson Plans
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Outreach World
A resource for teaching kids about the world. Comprehensive
one-stop resource for teaching international and area studies
and foreign languages in the precollegiate classroom. Search
for resource materials, view the Professional Development
calendar and more.
- Christiane
Clados: Reconstructing the Pre-Columbian World
A colorful, online an online curriculum on the Moche, Sican, Sipan,
Paracas, Tiwanaku, Maya, Nasca, Teotihuacan, and Aztecs. Click on
Teachers Guide.
- RETANET
Resources for teaching about the Americas. Search for lesson plans,
photos, and others. Subject areas include social science, art,
literature, and science and math. RetaNet is an outreach project of
the Latin America Data Base (LADB), a part of the Latin American
Institute at the University of New Mexico
- LASER
LASER, part of the University of Michigan, is a web site for middle and
high school teachers and students who are learning about Latin America
in social sciences and humanities classes. This site can be used to learn
more about Latin America and the Caribbean countries, to obtain information
to incorporate into their lessons about Latin America, to view actual
sample lesson plans, materials, and ideas for teaching about Latin America
and the Caribbean, and to access annotated and categorized resource lists.
- Latin America Activity Booklet (PDF Format)
CILAS Elementary School Lesson Plan.
General
- Teachers.net
Chat with other teachers on the chatboards, find a games,
and search for age/grade appropriate lesson plans.
Geography
- World Atlas
Maps by country and continent. Also includes outline maps for tests!
Math
- Currency Conversions
This site allows you to currency conversions for all countries of
the world. You convert to/from any currency and you can compare
different dates for the same country.
Music and the Arts
- Corridos
Corridos Sin Fronteras: A traveling exhibition and educational web
site celebrating the narrative songs known as corridos. Learn about
the history of corridos, listen to songs and write your own corrido!
- Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education
Lincoln Center Institute (LCI) is an arts and education organization whose approach is based on aesthetic education and the writings of such innovators as John Dewey and Maxine Greene. Students learn about and through the arts by focusing on works of art, including performing and visual arts, and architecture. LCI's principles support learning across the curriculum. The Institute works in partnership with pre-K through grade twelve educators and degree-granting teacher education programs, and provides numerous professional development opportunities.
- ArtsEdge
ArtsEdge—the National Arts and Education Network—supports the placement of the arts at the center of the curriculum and advocates creative use of technology to enhance the K-12 educational experience. ArtsEdge empowers educators to teach in, through, and about the arts by providing the tools to develop interdisciplinary curricula that fully integrate the arts with other academic subjects. ArtsEdge offers free, standards-based teaching materials for use in and out of the classroom, as well as professional development resources, student materials, and guidelines for arts-based instruction and assessment.
- Learning Laboratory School Network Article List
These articles come mainly from the Journal for Learning Through Music, published by the Research Center for Learning Through Music at New England Conservatory. Articles are organized by topic heading and can be downloaded in PDF format. Good resource for information on benefits and challenges of using music in the classroom.
Books
- Barahona Center
Looking for a book on a Latin American Topic? Check out the Barahona
Center. The Barahona Center is housed at California State San Marcos.
The site guides you through a search and gives you grade and
age-specific titles! Site is in English and in Spanish.
- ¡Zapatistas!
This site contains the full text of the book ¡Zapatistas! Documents of
the New Mexican Revolution. Detailed and printable.
Presentations & Workshop Material
News & Information
- Resource Center of the Americas.org
Great for last minute news from Latin American countries. You can also search the
archives for specific topics. "The Resource Center informs, educates and organizes
to promote human rights, democratic participation, economic justice and
cross-cultural understanding in the context of globalization in the Americas."
- Latin American Network Information
Center (LANIC)
Provides links to information by country or subject. Latin American Network Information
Center (LANIC) is affiliated with the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies
at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Zapatistas in Cyberspace, A Guide to Analysis & Information
This site is an excellent guide to the many sites on the Zapatista rebellion of
Chiapas, Mexico.
- The Smithsonian Latin Center
The Smithsonian Latino Center in partnership with the Mexican Cultural Institute and other organizations will offer a series of public programs in Washington, D.C., that highlight different aspects of Mexican and Mexican American culture and heritage.
- Ejército Zapatista de Liberación
Nacional
This site is in Spanish. Frequently asked questions, photos, and more. Great
for Spanish teachers.
- National Latino Writers Conference
This three-day annual conference will take place May 17-19, 2007 and invites all writers published and unpublished, to participate in workshops conducted by nationally and internationally known authors in the genres of poetry, fiction, screenwriting, playwriting and news writing. Panels of editors and publishers representing such presses as Arte Público Press, Warner Books, Curbstone Press, Simon and Schuster, University of New Mexico, Arizona and California Presses and many others will speak on the process of getting your work published. Agents will be available for consultation and interview.
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