Outline describing Pink Tide movements in Venezuela.
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Lesson Plans, Unit Plans, Modules
Intended Audience:
Higher Education
Intended Audience:
Higher Education
Outline describing Pink Tide movements in Venezuela.
Intended Audience:
Students, 6-8, Faculty, K-12
This unit familiarizes students with the European Union, member countries, global issues, and global trade. It is targeted to the educator's 6th grade Geography / Social Studies class.
Laura West 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:
9-12
'Who are we and how does our culture make an impact on our lives?' by Larissa Sturm as a part of the Summer Institute for Global Educators 2022.
Podcast
Intended Audience:
Students, 9-12, Higher Education, Faculty, Post-Secondary
Sean’s Russia Blog, an invaluable web source that features interviews with writers, filmmakers, academics, and policy figures from Russia, the United States, and elsewhere, is hosted by Sean Guillory (Digital Scholarship Curator, Center for Russian and East European Studies) and provides hour-long interviews that have ranged from Russian LGBTQ and New Left Activism to The Early Russian Empire and Reforging Roma into New Soviet Gypsies. Sean has explored a broad range of political topics in such podcasts as The Russian Propaganda Machine and Russophobia in America: A Genealogy. Educators and students will find something for any vector of curiosity: interested in Russian Punk Rock? The Stillbirth of the Soviet Internet? The Political Life of Vodka? Gangs in Russia?
Presentation Slides (e.g PowerPoint)
Intended Audience:
9-12, K-12
Chinese culture, politics, and economics underwent enormous changes during several pivotal eras from the 1940s through present-day. This powerpoint, ideal for teaching grades 9-12, provides historical context for these distinct eras, and uses the art produced during them as a lens through which to view the dramatic historical shifts the nation experienced. Primary source document analysis worksheets with accompanying class activities provided in the powerpoint.
Ideally, powerpoint will be accompanied by a viewing of the films Inner Visions: Avant-Garde Art in China and Art in Smog by Lydia Chen.
Intended Audience:
9-12, Higher Education, Faculty, Post-Secondary
In an era marked by geopolitical friction and economic uncertainty, the relationship between the United States and Canada stands at a critical juncture. Join Dr. Andrew Holman and Dr. Laurie Trautman for a thought-provoking discussion of the historical foundations and contemporary tensions shaping this complex bilateral relationship through a global studies lens.
By situating this dialogue within a global studies framework, the discussion offers essential insights into how international dynamics, economic policies, and historical contexts intersect to shape bilateral relations. Scholars, students, educators, and curious minds alike will find this an essential forum for understanding the stakes of cross-border diplomacy.
Sponsored by: Global Studies Center; Center for Canadian-American Studies; Center for the Study of Canada; Institute on Quebec Studies
Intended Audience:
9-12
These resources explore the history, current status, and future of Africa and China's relationship through a global lens, providing examples of not only Chinese investments in infrastructure in Africa, but from other regions such as Europe, as well. The resources offer teaching strategies and resources for K-12 classroom use.
Intended Audience:
9-12, Post-Secondary
This curriculum resource examines the history, current status, and future of Africa and China's relationship through a global lens and offer strategies and resources for classroom use. The PDFs provide a historical analysis of Chinese investments in infrastructure in Africa as well as examples from other regions such as Europe, as well.
Intended Audience:
K-12
This curriculum presentation examines the island of Taiwan's rich and compelling historical narrative as well as the important role it plays in today's geopolitical and economic landscape. It also includes strategies for incorporating the study of Taiwan into the K-12 classroom with the award-winning interactive curriculum resource website, Centering Taiwan in Global Asia. (https://centeringtaiwan.pitt.edu/). Click here for the recording of the presentation and resources: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/ncta/centering-taiwan-global-asia-ncta-workshop-resources
Intended Audience:
K-12, Post-Secondary
Learn about the most recent developments and status of Hong Kong with this self-paced, asynchronous curriculum module, which provides educators with historical context, recorded lectures by Hong Kong legal scholars, books and materials.
Intended Audience:
K-12
This PPT provides an historical overview of China's relationship with the environment and ways to integrate it into the K-14 classroom.
Intended Audience:
Faculty, Post-Secondary
PowerPoint presentation delivered by Dr. Jorge Enrique Delgado of the University of Pittsburgh School of Education at the workshop "Working with International Students on Your Campus," held at Westmoreland County Community College on October 6, 2015.
Intended Audience:
K-12
This PPT is designed for K-12 eudators who are interested in augmenting their study of the Vietnam War and its aftermath. Through the use of award-winning author Thanhhai Lai's "Inside Out & Back Again," this presentation explores themes such as war, loss, immigration, alienation, prejudice, imperialism, assimilation, and diaspora, and offers teaching strategies and materials for various subjects and grade levels.
Intended Audience:
K-12, Post-Secondary
Nearly 2 million Vietnamese immigrants escaped to the United States in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, many of them prospering in America's $8 billion nail economy. This PPT provides K-12 educators with a historical background of Vietnam, the Vietnam War, and the diaspora to the United States and western Pennsylvania that followed in the 1970s and 80s in the hopes of creating new lives and opportunities for their families. Resources for the use of digital mapping to teach this history are also included in the PPT.
Ideally, the PPT should be accompanied by Adele Pham's documentary about the Vietnamese diaspora and multi-billion dollar nail industry, "Nailed It."
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