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- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students explore the benefits and drawbacks of free trade from the perspective of the United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile and Mexico. For homework, they each write a letter to the editor expressing their personal viewpoint on trade. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students use maps and globes to travel through Mesoamerica. They identify major landforms and bodies of water. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st
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Students explore the cultures of the Maya, Aztec and Inca civilizations. They discuss how their inventions influenced the people of today. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students investigate the use of cloth-based art forms intended to pass down traditions and history. They research types of quilts, quilt characteristics and then identify how Freedom Quilts were historically used in the US. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students examine how quilts record the cultural history of a particular place and time. They view and discuss images of quilts, identify colors, shapes, patterns, and symbols, read stories about quilts, and create a class story quilt. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students watch and respond to a Bill Moyers Now video on the Chilean author, Isabel Allende. They brainstorm a list of recent events that might inspire writers and choose one to write about in poetic, diary, or short story form. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 12th
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Students create an art piece that expresses their opinions while circumventing hypothetical government restrictions in this lesson on art and government censorship. Emphasis is placed upon historical instances of censorship around the world. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students begin the lesson by identifying how and why the Native Americans came to North America. Using the internet, they examine how their culture spread throughout the continent and in groups they discuss the stereotypes between the Europeans and Native Americans. They end the lesson by discussing how Native Americans today are trying to preserve their culture. Full Review »
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- 7th
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Students make comparisons to clothing that is worn in Ohio during different seasons to those worn by the natives of the country of Chile. The comparisons are presented in the form of an original project or poster. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st
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Students communicate and respond to specific information they have gleaned from a narrated story about music instruments in the target language. The lesson is also meant to reinforce listening skills essential for foreign language learning. Full Review »
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