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Don't Just Dream-Act

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create campaign materials to encourage the passage of legislation supporting higher education for immigrant minors. They produce flyers, brochures, pins and a voter presentation for a school fair. To prepare the materials they...
Worksheet
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Food: Habits and Holidays

For Students 7th - 8th
In this foods of the world learning exercise, students answer true and false questions about their own eating habits, than complete a matching activity where they match foods with countries of the world.
Lesson Plan
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Patients Die in Britain as Foreign Doctors Can’t Speak English Properly

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders examine the problems that exist with foreign doctors not fluent in English. In this Great Britain Health System focussed for ESL lesson, 9th graders read an article and answer guided questions. Students participate in a...
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Other

Working Abroad

For Students 9th - 10th
WorkingAbroad/VWIS (Voluntary Work Information Service) is an international networking service for volunteers, workers and travellers on volunteer projects in over 150 countries worldwide. On this site, you will find professional and...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Work Abroad

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from Wide Angle, Mary, a college educated Zimbabwean migrant, describes her life and work in Botswana.
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Other

Cool Works: Cools Jobs in Exciting Places

For Students 9th - 10th
Cool Works is all about you finding a seasonal job or career in some of the greatest places on Earth. Get a summer job in Yellowstone, Yosemite, or another national park wonder. Find a great camp counselor job to keep you busy all summer...
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Other

Ameri Span Unlimited

For Students 9th - 10th
AmeriSpan Unlimited provides immersion, intern, and educational tours in Spanish-speaking countries. Information on all programs, job opportunities, and travel resources are provided.
eBook
Open Library of the Internet Archive

Open Library: Tom Sawyer Abroad: By Mark Twain.

For Students 9th - 10th
This ebook version of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer Abroad: By Mark Twain" has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.
eBook
Open Library of the Internet Archive

Open Library: The Four Corners Abroad

For Students 9th - 10th
This ebook version of Amy Ella Blanchard's The Four Corners Abroad has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.
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Other

Volunteer Abroad

For Students 9th - 10th
Database provides information about volunteering in other countries. Travel advice and links to university programs included.
eBook
Indiana University

Wright American Fiction Collection: Mark Twain

For Students 9th - 10th
The full texts to Twain's lesser-known works can be accessed from this site such as "Celebrated Jumping Frog" and "The Innocents Abroad." Read facsimiles of the original books or plain text versions.
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University of Virginia

University of Virginia: Mark Twain in His Times

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive look at Mark Twain and many of his novels. "Innocents Abroad", "Tom Sawyer", "Huck Finn", "Connecticut Yankee", and "Pudd'nhead Wilson" are covered. Links are available to the full texts, illustrations, advertising and...
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Other

Worldwide International Student Exchange (Wise)

For Students 9th - 10th
The Worldwide International Student Exchange Foundation is an excellent source of exchange opportunities for short-stay or long term experiences traveling and living abroad. Offers a range of farm, ranch, city environments as well as...
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US Department of State

The Bureau of Consular Affairs

For Students 9th - 10th
Are you interested in learning about working or traveling abroad? The Bureau of Consular Affairs provides information on working or traveling internationally.
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Other

Job Monkey: Cool Jobs

For Students 9th - 10th
JobMonkey helps you find seasonal or year-round jobs working for employers who can offer you unique opportunities to travel the world, have fun, and earn good money doing it.
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Other

National Museum in Warsaw (Poland)

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Museum in Warsaw is actually a collection of five museums: the modern National Museum, Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture at the Krolikarnia Palace, the Poster Museum at Wilanow, Radziwill Palace in Nieborow and Romantic...
Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Regional Realism: Mark Twain

For Students 9th - 10th
This biography features Mark Twain as a regional realist author, world renown for his ability to portray real Americans in the late nineteenth century. Click "Mark Twain Activities" for artifacts and activities.
Handout
Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press.

New Georgia Encyclopedia: Corra Harris (1869 1935)

For Students 9th - 10th
The "first female war correspondent to go abroad in World War I" is the focus of this article about her life and work. The site includes a list of suggested readings.
Handout
Mount Holyoke College

Mount Holyoke College: Mc Carthyism: Persecution

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the list Senator Joseph McCarthy was showing to the public in early 1950, a list that purportedly stated the names of Communist Part members who worked within the State Department. This was the beginning of McCarthyism. Over...
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Other

Buscador De Ofertas Y Guia De Empresas

For Students 9th - 10th
This search engine for Spanish jobs includes a business guide to select the type of profession you desire.
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Other

Philosophers: Margaret Fuller's Philosophy

For Students 9th - 10th
This profile of Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) reveals why she is sometimes called "the most important woman of the nineteenth century." Discussion includes her literary criticism, journalism, and her feminist manifesto, Woman of the...
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Barbara Ann Scott

For Students 9th - 10th
Barbara Ann Scott is Canada's only female figure skater to win an Olympic Gold Medal. The Celebrating Women's Achievement website from Canada's National Library and Archive profiles the skater nicknamed Canada's Sweetheart. After turning...