High School

This lesson plan provides an overall introduction to the country of Guatemala, which is borders the southern part of Mexico. Guatemala is a par of Central America and this lesson plan provides lessons in mathematics, social studies and more.

This lesson plan covers a variety of age groups ranging from 3rd grade to 12th grade and can be adapted to fit a variety of age groups. This lesson focuses on the Brazilian dances of Samba and Carimbo. Students will learn basic steps and dance along with the music while comparing the dances to our forms such as jazz and swing, found in the United States.You will need to purchase audio from Smithsonian Folkways or find audio on Youtube that will match the lesson.

In this lesson, students will read the tale "La Carretanagua" and listen to various descriptions given by the Nicarguan people on the "Death Cart". A "Death Cart" was used by the Spanish to instill fear in the peoples they had colonized. As an extension activity, students can make their own "Death Cart".

As a result of this lesson students will be able to identify some of the main colonial builds of Leon Viejo in Nicaragua, analyze the motivations of the conquistadors to settle in Leon Viejo and their treatment of the Indians. This lesson focuses on the struggle of indigenous peoples against the conquistadors. Students will get to view many images and read documents in Spanish. This will help students learning to read and comprehend Spanish.

This lesson is a very eye opening and different plan which allows students to identify stereotypes that they may have about Latin America and how these stereotypes contribute to people's perspectives of regions, cultures and countries as a whole. Students will be able to analyze information by comparing and contrasting their prior knowledge of Latin America with the information they will learn about the region.

This lesson plan focuses on how African culture has come to influence Latin America due to historical patterns of migration such as the movement of Africans to Latin America due to the need for slave labor during colonization and how African culture has come to influence food, music, culture and more.

This unit contains several lesson plans varying in grade level, length and topic about the Amazon. Each lesson mainly focuses on the geography and history of the Amazon.

Students will examine the economic, health and environmental risks of a one-crop economy, such as the coffee economy in Honduras, in the developing world.

Students are asked to explain why so many finches died during the drought of 1977 in the Galapagos and what enabled the remaining finches to survive. This investigation is preceded by several lab experiences that build understanding about environmental stress, trait variation, acquired characteristics, generational change and bird beak form and function.

This unit includes a comparative study between Puerto Rico and Cuba and it's relation to the rest of the Caribbean. This unit analyzes political, historic, economic, social and cultural events.