New Mexico and the World
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Title: Introduction to Pantanal and Inquiry Questions
Description: Three lectures and accompanying student activites and focus questions relating to the plight of the Pantanal are ihncluded. Reflection writing, reading comprehension.
Submitted By: Susan Tingey
Date: 7/2/2007
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Title: All that Glitters is not Gold
Description: Students will investigate the process of recovering and mining gold. Due to the heavy metals used in recovery of gold, the true price of gold must also factor in the suffering of the workers, and the damage inflicted on the environment.
Submitted By: Susan Tingey
Date: 7/2/2007
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Title: Migrations
Description: Students will investigate and understand the historical movements of people, as well as the curren socio-economic pressures that motivate current day migrations.
Submitted By: Susan Tingey
Date: 7/2/2007
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Title: The Price of Protein
Description: Students will research and learn about the Pantanal in Brazin, an area of intense cattle production, to focus on the social fabric of the community.
Submitted By: Joleen Welborn
Date: 9/25/2007
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Title: Guess What They Like
Description: Game to interpret material values in other cultures to begin to appreciate differences. Can be played at any secondary school level.
Submitted By: John Egbert
Date: 4/24/2006
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Title: Web Cam Around the World
Description: Students web cam on world cam sites to view a variety of locations around the world. They print their pictures of a chosen site. Grid it on to a larger paper and finish it in a medium of their choice.
Submitted By: Laurie Heintz
Date: 5/1/2006
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Title: Abacus
Description: Briefly introduce abacus to students to help them develop an appreciation for a culture difference. If students are interested in learning how to do some simple arithmetic operations using the abacus, the teacher can develop more lessons to teach.
Submitted By: Cecilia Huang
Date: 1/27/2007
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Title: Home Away From Home
Description: Students identify personal cultural traits and compare them with classmates and other students of their age around the world, or at least the cultural ways of groups in different countries.
Submitted By: John Egbert
Date: 2/5/2007
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Title: Money Exchange: Conversion and Brazilian Language Exercises
Description: Using conversions between American Dollar and Brazilian Real, students will go on an Internet "shopping spree"
Submitted By: Vannetta Perry
Date: 7/31/2007
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Title: "LORD OF THE WOODS": Storytelling Pantanal Style
Description: Students will have an opportunity to understand the art of storytelling by experience, and through that experience gain an appreciation of art.
Submitted By: Ed Kerr
Date: 7/31/2007
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Title: Hydrovia: To Dig or Not To Dig!
Description: Students will have an opportunity to discover what the Hydrovia project is, how it relates to or can affect the Pantanal region of Brazil, and discuss the pro's and con's of this project in a debate format.
Submitted By: Ed Kerr
Date: 7/31/2007
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Title: Flying Solo, Pantanal
Description: Independent study project to conceive, develop and complete a project of the student's own design on a topic of interest based on research into the Brasilian Pantanal.
Submitted By: Cecilia Huang
Date: 8/7/2007
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Title: Cultura, lingua e musica
Description: This lesson module will demonstrate the common roots of Latin, with some comparisons between Spanish and Portuguese.
Submitted By: Susan Tingey
Date: 8/7/2007
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Title: Cowboy Math in the Pantanal
Description: Students will use unit multipliers to convert one unit to another, using metric/English unites, foreign exchange currencies, and ratios of various units. They will read information in context and understand the process of writing an equivalent mathematical equation or phrase from the given information.
Submitted By: Ed Kerr
Date: 8/7/2007
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