Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Anglo Saxon Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the Anglo-Saxon culture including how the pagen Germanic tribes were converted to Christianity by St. Augustine, creating the first English bishopric in Canterbury. It offers links to an overview of Anglo- Saxon...
Handout
Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Fipa

For Students 9th - 10th
The Fipa are a Bantu-speaking people of southwestern Tanzania in East-Central Africa. The name "Fipa" appears to have been bestowed on them by nineteenth-century traders and means "people of the escarpment." It was later adopted by...
PPT
Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: 50 Years of the Elysee Treaty 50 Years of the Fgyo

For Students 9th - 10th
50 years of the Elysee Treaty and the Franco-German Youth Office are portrayed in this photographic exhibit.
PPT
Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: The Siege of Leningrad

For Students 9th - 10th
A pictorial account of the Siege of Leningrad by the German Army during World War II.
PPT
Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: Remember

For Students 9th - 10th
Online multimedia exhibit represents three sides to the World War II tragedy: the Nazi perpetrator, the victim of the Nazis, and the Soviet liberator. Find out what could have happened if German Nazism had won.
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Other

Huayu World: Global Chinese Language and Culture Center

For Students 9th - 10th
Good resource for exploring Chinese culture and language. Learn about Taiwanese lantern riddles, Chinese folklore, clothing, poetry and fables, papercutting, Chinese New Year, and Chinese festival and every-day cooking. Multimedia makes...
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Goethe-Institut

German Design and Fashion From Goethe Institut

For Students 9th - 10th
The Goethe-Institut provides a wonderful resource leading to many German design and fashion sites on the web. Sites include current national topics in German design and fashion, home and furniture designs from Germany, German designs of...
Primary
Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: Years of Change

For Students 9th - 10th
A visual chronology of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the Cold War, in East Germany from diary excerpts, historical snippets, and photographs. The German Reunification period ran from 1989-1991.
Handout
United Nations

Unesco: Longobards in Italy: Places of Power (568 774 Ad)

For Students 9th - 10th
The Longoboards buildings reflect the accomplishments of the Lombards, a Germanic culture originally from northern Europe. These early medieval buildings are located across the Italian Peninsula and date from the 6th to 8th centuries....
Handout
Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Afrikaners

For Students 9th - 10th
The Afrikaners are descendants, to a great extent, of Dutch, German, and French Huguenot settlers, and, to a lesser extent, of English, Scottish, Irish, and other settlers of South Africa. The Dutch language of the first White settlers...
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Other

Die Zeit

For Students 9th - 10th
Die Zeit is a daily national and international newspaper serving the country of Germany. Content includes top national and international news, politics, sports, economics, culture, and much more.
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National Geographic Kids

National Geographic Kids: Germany

For Students 3rd - 8th
Click-through facts-and-photo file about Germany's geography, nature, history, people, culture, and government.
PPT
Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: "The Eternal Jew"

For Students 9th - 10th
Photographic exhibit tells the story of Hitler's regime's humiliation of Jews and events leading to Kristallnacht, often referred to as the beginning of the Holocaust.
PPT
Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: "Faith in the Human Spirit Is Not Lost"

For Students 9th - 10th
Pictorial exhibit commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Righteous Program founded by Yad Vashem to honor rescuers who protected Jews from death and deportation during the Holocaust.
Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: German 3, Semester 1: Gesund Ieben

For Students 10th - 12th
A learning module through which students learn German words and phrases used to discuss routing daily activities, family members, body parts, and culture. Students will also learn the genitive case and review the forms and uses of all...
Handout
Other

Quick Dic: Free German English Online Dictionary

For Students 9th - 10th
This bilingual dictionary includes support for cultural expressions.
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Other

The German American Fulbright Commission

For Students 9th - 10th
German-American Fulbright Commission website seeks to promote academic excellence and cultural understanding between the United States and Germany through scholarly exchanges. Find information about funding, commission news, events,...
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Food and Drink in German: Rags to Riches Game

For Students 9th - 10th
This take off on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" tests how well participants can cope with food-related situations in German.
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Other

Rhein Neckar Zeitung Heidelberg (Rnz)

For Students 9th - 10th
RNZ is a local area newspaper serving the city of Heidelberg, Germany. Content includes local, regional, and national news, as well as political and economics coverage, sports, culture, science, health, and more. Written in German.
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Other

Rhein Neckar Zeitung Heidelberg (Rnz)

For Students 9th - 10th
RNZ is a local area newspaper serving the city of Heidelberg, Germany. Content includes local, regional, and national news, as well as political and economics coverage, sports, culture, science, health, and more. Written in German.
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Other

Government of Batavia: Homepage

For Students 9th - 10th
The Free State of Bavaria (Freistaat Bayern) in Germany profiles its political, cultural and economic features.
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1800 1840: Irish and German Immigration

For Students 9th - 10th
Famine and political revolution in Europe led millions of Irish and German citizens to immigrate to America in the mid-nineteenth century.
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Other

Free State of Thuringia: Freistaat Thuringen

For Students 9th - 10th
English version of the public relations site for the German free state of Thuringia. Sections cover political, regional, cultural, business and tourist topics. Click on the German flag on the left side of the page to access the original...
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Other

Free State of Saxony

For Students 9th - 10th
English version of the public relations site for the German state of Saxony. Sections cover Citizens and Free State, State and People, Economy and Environment, Knowledge and Education, Culture and Leisure. Click on the "languages" link...