Students explore how the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has impacted the people and economies of North America and Mexico.

Students examine the benefits and problems of U.S. participation in the North American Free Trade Agreement. In two groups, students represent the campaign team for a presidential candidate, one for and one against NAFTA, and research...

Learners learn the how trade impacted the colonial economy. They analyze the the benefits of NAFTA and learn the advantages to both the United States and Mexico.

Build literacy through social studies and reading strategies. This lesson focuses on using pre-reading, vocabulary building, and comprehension questions to boost literacy while educating learners on international trade, NAFTA, and...

Students analyze the effects of outsourcing. In this globalization lesson, students listen to their instructor present a lecture regarding the outsourcing of American jobs to other countries. Students respond to discussion questions and...

Students research the geography, economics and government of Canada and how that affects US/Canadian trade relations. In this NAFTA activity, students play a game, read about Canadian history, and creat a graph.

Students study the social justice issues of the immigration debate. In this immigration lesson, students examine the role of undocumented Latino workers as they explore how trade policies and competition influence immigration and...

Using the Declaration of Human Rights and the United States Constitution as reference tools, class members examine 14 scenarios to decide if the situation represents a violation of human rights, and if these same rights...

Twelfth graders investigate whether Turkey will join the European Union. For this government structures lesson, 12th graders prepare for and participate in a debate over expansion within the European Union.

Students apply United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the United States Constitution to contemporary situations, and predict possible United Nations responses to violations of the UDHR.

Learners examine presidential powers. In this checks and balances activity, students identify the constitutional and informal restraints of the president and consider the reasons for the limitations.

In this literacy instructional activity, students find the words that are in the word search puzzle that focus upon the vocabulary that is from the theme of the sheet.

This page provides access to the complete text of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

This article provides an easy to understand explanation of North American Free Trade Agreement. Read this brief article to learn about and understand NAFTA.

With the signing of NAFTA, the world's largest free trade area was created. Here the text of the Agreement, publications, and general information along with media releases and FAQs can be accessed.

A ten year evaluation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Canada, Mexico and the U.S. in Foreign Affairs, a scholarly academic journal, is presented. Discusses the potential for further integration between trading...

A learning module on free trade. It includes several supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Topics covered include the arguments put forward in support of and...

Canada's role in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), World Trade Organization (WTO), and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) are evaluated by this lobby/political action research group. The Council of Canadians is a...

Brief description of Panama and North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) negotiated by President George Bush and ratified during the Clinton administration.

This article is written by Sarah Anderson, John Cavanagh, and Saul Landau of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) in Foreign Policy in Focus, Volume 2, Number 1, January 1997. Key points, problems, and recommendations are discussed.

Detailed discussion of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) signed on December 8, 1993, by President Bill Clinton.

An American left-wing website reports on the protesters in Quebec City in 2001 that accompanied the Free Trade of the Americas Agreement (FTAA) Summit hosted by Prime Minister Jean Chretien. Offers students a glimpse at the wide variety...

This site discusses two international issues President Bush encountered during his time in office. They were the "War on drugs," and what to do with countries and/or leaders that played a role and the hotly-debated North American Free...

By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Explain the meaning of trade balance and its implications for the foreign exchange market, Analyze concerns over international trade in goods and services and...