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Callis, Janette M. – 1996
This simulation allows students to experience a race from El Paso, Texas to the tip of South America. The students travel through each of the Latin American countries learning as much as they can about each country and completing one report per group. Next, the teams present their report and projects, draw general information/history question…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Latin American Culture
Roth, Peter – 1993
This simulation allows students to explore the lives of the great rulers of the Mayan culture. Students learn the mysterious history of the Maya by decoding glyphs, investigating the unusual religion of the Maya, unraveling the complex Mayan calendar, and discovering the Mayan number system's secret meanings. Specific cooperation skills are taught…
Descriptors: American Indian History, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Mason, Mary T. – Georgia Social Science Journal, 1989
Addresses the problem of geographic literacy with respect to the Caribbean Basin. Provides a lesson plan, including maps and charts, that encourages and challenges students to learn the geography of the Caribbean Basin, and to think about the problems that develop when large numbers of legal and illegal immigrants enter the United States. (RW)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geographic Concepts, Geography Instruction, Immigrants
Peer reviewedFantozzi, Carla; And Others – Art Education, 1994
Presents four lesson plans designed to teach about Frank Lloyd Wright's "Hollyhock House" to primary, intermediate, and secondary art students. Provides an overview describing the history and design of the house, including its relationship to Mayan architecture. Includes nine photographs and original drawings of the building. (CFR)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Architecture, Art Appreciation, Art Education
Callis, Jan – 1992
This simulation allows students to learn of the shared Hispanic background of the Southwestern states and help students realize that the states developed in a parallel fashion, not in isolation. The packet is divided into eight sections: (1) "Introduction"; (2) "Land"; (3) "Native Americans"; (4)…
Descriptors: American Indian History, Area Studies, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education
Download full textSchaap, Eileen, Ed.; Fresen, Sue, Ed. – 2000
This teacher's guide and student guide unit contains supplemental readings, activities, and methods adapted for secondary students who have disabilities and other students with diverse learning needs. The unit focuses on world history and correlates to Florida's Sunshine State Standards. It is divided into the following 21 units of study that…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Academic Standards, Curriculum, Disabilities
Schaap, Eileen, Ed.; Fresen, Sue, Ed. – 2000
This teacher's guide and student guide unit contains supplemental readings, activities, and methods adapted for secondary students who have disabilities and other students with diverse learning needs. The materials differ from standard textbooks and workbooks in several ways: simplified text; smaller units of study; reduced vocabulary level;…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Academic Standards, Curriculum, Disabilities
