More lesson plans using media from around the world

We’ve been busily adding to our collection of lesson plans for teaching about world cultures using multimedia. Incorporating audio recordings and photographs from countries around the world, the lesson plans cover a variety of curriculum areas, grade levels, and topics. Recent highlights include:

• To Market, To Market: Photograph Analysis, which encourages students to analyze photos of markets in Bali, Ecuador, India, Mexico, and Vietnam in order to understand the cultural significance of markets and the elements that unify geographically distant locations.
• Bounce Into Rubber: Natural Latex from Thailand, a science plan in which students examine various plant species to determine whether any produce natural latex, and explore the rubber production process in Thailand through photos and audio recordings.
• Bullfighting in Colombia, in which students students study the history of bullfighting in Spain and Colombia as an example of how cultural traditions can be transferred from one place to another.

Still more of these are on the way, so stay tuned. And if you like what you see, let us know!