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Mexico: One Land, Many Cultures
Students research and study the country of Mexico and complete a project about it. In this Mexico lesson plan, students research Mexico's geography, traditions, art, songs, stories, and legends that are native to Mexico.
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The Government: From Different Perspectives
Fifth graders investigate the importance of government by conducting a debate. For this U.S. Government lesson, 5th graders utilize their classroom as the setting for a two sided debate based on whether government is essential to a...
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Birthdays
Students recognize that there are different birthday customs unique to many countries.
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TE Activity: The Great Divide
Students simulate the distribution of nonrenewable energy resources using cookies. They determine how the world's growing population effects the equitable distribution of these resources. They look at how engineers work to develop...
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Biography of a river
Students compare and contrast facts about the development, history and importance of several rivers in the state. They research the history and development of one particular river and describe the deltas and their formation.
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The Awareness of Stereotyping
Students in ESL classes participate in role-playing activities to develop their awareness of stereotyping and understanding other cultures.
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BBC Learning English, Working Abroad/Speaking
In this working and speaking abroad worksheet, students develop specific questions related to given categories. Students are then asked to find classmates who fit into the categories and can answer the questions.
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Investigations in Aid: Identifying the Need
Students investigate the needs in emerging nations. For this emerging nations lesson, students research the conditions for needs in the given countries. Students are assigned to the country groups of Honduras, Nigeria, Bosnia, Cambodia,...
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It Takes a Village
Learners consider the contributions of the African Medical and Research Foundation (Amref). In this current events lesson plan, students research the listed Web sites that include information about Uganda's education, relief, and social...
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What's Rome Got to Do With it?
Sixth graders examine the government of ancient Rome as well as their home country. They discover the basic structure of the government of Rome, their country, and another country.
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Traveling for Water
Students explore global water contamination and water shortage problems. In this geography/ecology lesson plan, students gain information about the lack of safe drinking water in many countries. Students read, use websites, and complete...
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Multiple Viewpoints
First graders explore the concept of multiple viewpoints. In this perspective lesson, 1st graders discuss the differences and similarities found within different cultures. Students then write a narrative about how something they can do...
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The Path of Pollution
Students name and locate countries where radiation from the Chernobyl accident traveled, describe how air pollution travels from one area to another and list the travel of radiation in chronological order.
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National Sterotypes
Learners develop their own ideas about the world around them. This instructional activity helps them improve their descriptive adjective vocabulary while they discuss perceived differences between nations through stereotypes.
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Early Explorers, Early Settlements and the Beginning of Democracy
Eighth graders research and discuss the early explorers, why countries sent out explorers, where they explored, and what their cultural contributions are to our US culture today.
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Reporting in Letters
Students investigate the cultures and politics of different countries and write radio letters to listeners in those countries modeled after Alistair Cooke's "Letter from America."
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Global Job Hopping
Students examine basic trade terms and data about the economies of countries increasingly used as outsources for American jobs.
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Energy
Students see that energy is everywhere in nature - in the light of the sun, in wind, in falling water and erupting volcanoes. Without energy, there is no life. This lesson provides many good ideas across the curriculum to study energy.
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The Indian Way of Life
Students examine how Native Americans developed their lifestyles and houses based on geographic location.
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Back To Africa
Students analyze the massive immigration after 1850 and how new social patterns, conflicts, and ideas of national unity developed amid growing cultural diversity, and how the Progressive movement influenced different groups in American...
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National Park Project
Pupils develop a descriptive and informative brochure for a National Park. They focus on the history and geology of the park, environmental concerns, and visitor actions that could eliminate the environmental concerns.
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Weather Watch
Middle schoolers research severe weather conditions that occur in their region of the country and develop guidelines to deal with natural disaster-related emergencies.
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Nationalism
Tenth graders examine the causes and course of World War I. They read and discuss a handout, simulate the formation of a country, design a flag, develop a national slogan, and present their country's information to the class.
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Biography of a River
Students examine the importance of rivers. They conduct research on a select river, and develop a river biography that includes a century report, description, interviews, and an epitaph in the form of a Cinquain.