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- 6th - 12th
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Students explore the historic transfer of the Panama Canal from the United States to Panama, investigating how this shift might affect various aspects of Panama's economy, relations with other countries, and international trade. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students identify conditions in Europe that relate to the independence movements in South America and list reasons why President Monroe gave for recognizing the indepence movement in South America. Full Review »
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- 6th - 10th
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Students research a South American Spanish speaking country, analyze and organize the information that they collect and present their findings to the class. Full Review »
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- 4th - 12th
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Students explore how to use library or Internet resources to chosen topics, comprehend the collected information, and structure the information with texts and graphics for presentation. They share their research with whole group. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students study a Latin American legend and discuss the belief systems present. They compare and contrast this legend to other cultures. They create a class mural showing the most important scene from the legend and act it out. They also compose their own legend and possibly publish it in the school newspaper. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students define multinational companies and describe their roles as key economic developers in developing countries, determine whether trade-off between surrendering control of a country's economy to foreign companies and economic development is worth political, social, and environmental risks and benefits to that developing country, and analyze influence of multinational company on the economies of Latin America. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students can participate in a number of different types of lesson provided in this curriculum framework for teaching. The goal of the units is to introduce Latin American culture into different schools across the United States. Each unit is standards based and includes activities and assessment guidelines. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 6th
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Students, after reading Chapter 1 in the book, "First Encounters Between Spain and the Americas: Two Worlds Meet," design and create a map of the Aztec Empire at the time of the first contract with the Spanish. They create the map from the perspective of an Aztec mapmaker. Full Review »
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- 9th
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Students study factors of the era of expansion that caused the era of imperialism. They watch a segment from one of the following movies: A Passage to India , or The Barbarian and the Geisha. They create an annotated bibliography off the Internet. Full Review »
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- 4th - 12th
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Students discuss the importance of communication and writing in their daily lives. In groups, they use the internet to research the development of letters, alphabets and writing materials. They trace the spread of the Latin language through trade and identify how it is still used today. Full Review »
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