Resource Listing

Lesson Plans, Unit Plans, Modules

Intended Audience:
Higher Education, Post-Secondary

Course Narrative: This course is a continuation of Financial Accounting with emphasis on corporate financial structure, accounting data in decision making, cost accounting, statement analysis, international business and partnership accounting. Module Narrative: This module provides information about the application of IFRS Standards in the European Union. IFRS Standards are developed and issued in the public interest by the International Accounting Standards Board. The Board is the standard-setting body , an independent, private sector, not-for-profit organization. Paul Rogers participated in the Brussels Study Tour 2016. For more information about this program, please visit https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/esc/outreach/educators/professional-development/brussels.

Intended Audience:
9-12

Mapping Art in the Early 20th Century by Nicole Schalk as part of the Summer Institute for Global Educators 2022.

Intended Audience:
9-12

This 5-day simulation was designed for high school students. This unit uses the current European Union migration crisis as a case study to understand human migration. By studying a specific and current migration case study, students will be able to discuss specific examples of the push and pull factors behind migration, voluntary and involuntary migration, and the “rules” of migration. K. Daitoku participated in the Brussels Study Tour 2016. For more information about this program, please visit https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/esc/outreach/educators/professional-development/brussels.

Intended Audience:
Students, 9-12, Faculty, K-12

This Agenda was used at the 2019 High School Model EU simulation.  While agendas often focus on current issues, past agendas are a great resource for preparing for an upcoming simulation.
 

Intended Audience:
Students, Higher Education, Faculty, Post-Secondary

This Agenda was used at the 2020 Undergraduate Model EU simulation.  While agendas often focus on current issues, past agendas are a great resource for preparing for an upcoming simulation.

Intended Audience:
Students, Higher Education, Faculty, Post-Secondary

This unit introduces students to the European Union, from its formation and how it works to how EU values are reflected in art.  It is targeted to the educator's Humanities course for undergraduate students.  This lesson also includes a Google Virtual Tour, created by the educator with a 360 camera in Brussels, to allow students to more actively explore the EU.
 
Chelle Costello participated in the Brussels Study Tour 2019.  For more information about this program, visit https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/esc/outreach/educators/professional-development/brussels.

Intended Audience:
6-8, 9-12

Protect the Rainforest: Equatorial Guinea by Michelle Geaghan as a part of the Summer Institute for Global Educators 2022. 

Intended Audience:
K-5

Children's book author and Nationality Rooms scholarship recipient Amy Alznauer provides K-5 math and humanities educators with creative ways to incorporate interdisciplinary learning into their classroom through the story of the renowned mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan, who is depicted in her children's book, The Boy Who Dreamed of Infinity.
 
A recording of the workshop can be viewed here: https://pitt.box.com/s/pt9deh1s22upb3q9ltt1tbgxs5qxel4h
 
 

Intended Audience:
Higher Education, Faculty

Developed by Dr. Jodi Carver at the Community College of Beaver County (CCBC), this module shows how to teach students in entrepreneurship courses about international business in Eastern European nations.
 
This module resulted from a series of joint workshops organized in 2014-2016 by CCBC in collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Russian and East European Studies. This partnership for curriculum and campus internationalization was supported with a grant through the "Bridging Cultures with Community Colleges" program of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Intended Audience:
6-8, 9-12

The video and accompanying powerpoint presentation from Michael-Ann Cerniglia's session of Global Issues Through Literature, on Sandy Tolan's The Lemon Tree (2006). Recorded February 2017.
Link to power point

Intended Audience:
K-5, 6-8

Lesson plan and materials compiled by Karen Gaul of Winchester-Thurston, for Global Issues Through Literature (2016-2017). The Day of the Pelican is a novel that explores the journey of a Muslim, Albanian family as they flee Kosovo and land in Vermont just before the events of 9/11. 

Intended Audience:
Students, 6-8, Faculty, K-12

This unit introduces students to the EU's efforts to address climate change and to involve youth in activism.  It is targeted to the educator's 6th, 7th, and 8th grade Social Studies courses.
 
Georgette Hackman participated in the Brussels Study Tour 2019.  For more information about this program, visit https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/esc/outreach/educators/professional-development/brussels.

Intended Audience:
6-8

This 11-day simulation was designed for middle school students. Groups of students will represent various EU countries; the experience begins with Post WWII Europe and concludes with current events facing the EU (Schengen Area, Euro Zone, Debt Crisis, Migration, and “Brexit”). Amanda Goodman participated in the Brussels Study Tour 2016. For more information about this program, please visit https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/esc/outreach/educators/professional-development/brussels.

Intended Audience:
9-12

In this unit, students will be introduced to the structures of the European Union, the concept of “pooled sovereignty,” political parties of the EU, the admissions process for new members, and will consider potential futures of the European Union. Felix Yerace participated in the Brussels Study Tour 2016. For more information about this program, please visit https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/esc/outreach/educators/professional-development/brussels.

Intended Audience:
6-8

This unit introduces students to the European Union. The European integration project is a political and economic partnership thtat represents a form of cooperation among 28 different countries. Students will learn about the physical geography, vision, successes, and the contemporary internal/external challenges of the European Union.

Betsy Dardeshi participated in the Brussels Study Tour 2016. For more information about this program, please visit https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/esc/content/brussels/study-tour.