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Contreras, Gloria, Ed. – 1987
This collection of materials is designed to help educators teach about Latin American culture more effectively. The introduction offers a rationale for studying about Latin America. Six chapters cover: (1) Key Ideas; (2) Concept Papers; (3) Lesson Plans and Writing Skills Development; (4) Games and Student Activities; (5) Arts and Crafts; and (6)…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Educational Resources, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Becker, Laurence – 1985
This four-lesson unit, designed for use with high school students, examines economic development in Africa. Lesson 1, "What Is Development?" has students investigating terms such as development, third world, North, and South. In lesson 2, "Resources and Culture," students learn that people define resources based on their own…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Foreign Countries
Download full textHorton, Judith Page, Ed. – 1989
This collection of essays, curriculum units, and study guides on Latin American art and musical traditions is designed to help interested teachers take a comprehensive approach to teaching these subjects. The introduction features the essay, "Media Resources Available on Latin American Culture: A Survey of Art, Architecture, and Music…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Art Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Swenson, Mary, Comp.; And Others – 1990
This annotated directory contains classroom resources for the countries of Central America, plus Mexico and the Caribbean. The types of resources included are: curricula, supplemental resources, audio-visuals, organizations, evaluation materials and guidebooks, and directories. The listings of curricula, supplemental resources, and audio-visuals…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Audiovisual Aids, Directories, Educational Resources
Stanford Univ., CA. Stanford Program on International and Cross Cultural Education. – 1988
This document is a revised version of a teaching unit originally published in 1980 and designed to familiarize both elementary and secondary students with the Chinese language and thus lessen the strangeness often attached to it. The goal is not that students "learn Chinese;" rather the hope is that, through a series of exercises that…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Chinese, Chinese Culture, Cultural Activities
Keyser, Catherine H., Ed.; Martin, Roberta, Ed. – 1991
This workbook is divided into 17 topical sections containing student readings and classroom activities designed to supplement standard textbook presentations and to bring China "alive" for students. The organization of the materials and the background notes for teachers stress central themes that are distinctive and recurrent in Chinese…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Chinese Americans, Chinese Culture, Elementary Secondary Education
Stanford Univ., CA. Stanford Program on International and Cross Cultural Education. – 1988
This unit, designed for use with high school and community college students, features a collection of literature about youths and young adults in contemporary China. Consisting of eight lessons, lessons 1 to 3 are introductory activities relating to Chinese youths and values. Lesson 4 presents excerpts from a Chinese collection of 100 life…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Chinese Culture, Cultural Education, Foreign Countries
Ballew, Paul; Okma, Bert – 1992
Jointly authored by an official of the Detroit Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and a Bloomfield Hills Public Schools System (Michigan) school teacher, this document is designed to support the secondary school social studies curriculum in the study of Japan. The volume examines prevailing U.S. views of Japan, Japan's socio-economic…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Economic Factors, Foreign Countries, Foreign Culture
Ismail, Marilyn – 1989
One of the problems one encounters in attempting to learn about another culture is the possible distortion brought about by one's own cultural biases. The overall purpose of this unit is to help students understand perceptions: how they can differ and how cultural biases are acquired and transmitted. Indian culture is an appropriate vehicle for…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Foreign Culture
Curnow, Richard T. – 1995
The two lesson plans presented here are designed to be used as teaching resources in presenting India to high school students. Lesson one focuses on "India and Cartoons" and uses contemporary Indian political and social cartoons for student analyses of social commentary. Lesson two examines "British Architecture during the Raj"…
Descriptors: Architecture, Area Studies, Asian Studies, Cartoons
Institute of International Education, New York, NY. – 1993
This document features writings and curriculum projects developed by teachers who traveled to Poland and Czechoslovakia in the summer of 1992 as members of a Fulbright-Hays Summer Seminar. The following items are among those included: "Curriculum Project: Women and Work: A Global Perspective" (Joan K. Burton); "The Community College…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Foreign Culture
Institute of International Education, New York, NY. – 1991
This document features writings and curriculum projects by teachers who traveled to Mexico and Central America in the summer of 1991 as members of a Fulbright-Hays Summer Seminar. The following items are among the 20 included: Curriculum Project: "'Escritoras Mexicanas Contemporaneas': A Survey of Mexican Women Fiction Writers" (Laura J.…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Foreign Culture
Wong, Wendy L. – 1985
This teaching unit is designed to introduce elementary school students to traditional Chinese celebrations in Taiwan. An introductory activity asks students to distinguish between various kinds of celebrations (traditional or modern; religious or secular), and to identify U.S. and Chinese examples of each kind. The body of the unit concerns four…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese Culture, Cultural Differences
Indiana Univ., Bloomington. Russian and East European Inst. – 1989
Basic material on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe is presented in this teachers' guide in such a way that teachers can incorporate it into the daily curriculum or utilize it through special units or projects. The guide is divided into two sections, one covering the Soviet Union, the other Eastern Europe. The Soviet Union section discusses…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Class Activities, Communism, Cross Cultural Studies
Jassim, Charlene – 1989
Three learning modules designed for middle school students by a middle school teacher are presented in this document. The three modules are designed to supplement the regular textbook program for teaching about India. They are specifically created to fulfill the needs and interests of 11- to 14-year-old students. The modules contain elements of…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Class Activities, Foreign Countries, Foreign Culture
