Language Arts

In this lesson, the student will explore the Maya culture and our knowledge of it through art, architecture and heritage of modern Maya people. Analyzing glyphs from the Maya system of writing and reading about ancient Mayan culture will help students understand the Mayan people.

Use environmental history to illustrate how environment influences humans and humans transform the environment.

Two lessons are included in this lengthy curriculum material that focuses on child labor and pushes students to discuss the factors behind the use of child labor, potential solutions and implications of those solutions. Email our Outreach Coordinator Clea Conlin at cconlin@email.arizona.edu for the full materials.

Students will learn about both celebrations from a cultural perspective. The ultimate objective is for students to place these events in their historical and social context and examine their own traditions from a similar perspective through compare and contrast activities. They will examine the concept of allegory through a closer look at both events. The first 3 handouts are included and slides can be recreated as the CD Rom is not available.

In this lesson, students will gain an understanding of migration patterns within, to and from Latin America and the Caribbean. This lesson is about the length of 3 1 hour class periods and all materials are included.

In this lesson, students will gain an understanding of using core regions and distinctive landscapes as an alternative to country by country descriptions.

Students will compare conflicting points of view about U.S. involvement in Haiti by examining timelines and reading about historical events between the two countries.

Students will look at the history of U.S. involvement in El Salvador during the 1970's and 1980's. Their examination will consist of various readings from different perspectives on this topic. Readings and other sources will discuss U.S. military and economic support for the El Salvadoran government, especially under the Reagan administration (1981-1989). Group work will consist of choosing texts to examine, discussing the texts and presenting group findings to the class as a whole.

In this lesson students will analyze different sources of historical material and primary source account of the Cuban Missile Crisis will identifying important people and countries involved in the event. Students will identify some of the causes that led to the event and why the crisis is so important to United States history.

The reading is translated and adapted from a Puerto Rican textbook on women in Latin America. it is designed to teach the often forgotten role of women n the history of Latin America. Students will learn some specific aspects of slavery and will also discover the roe slave women played in shaping Caribbean culture and in the struggle for abolishing slavery.