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This page lists recommended content links for internationalizing curriculum.

ONLINE RESOURCES FOR INTERNATIONALIZING CURRICULUM

HELPFUL RESOURCES AT U.C. BERKELEY:

• National Resource Centers at International and Area Studies
  
  
• The Institute of International Studies online projects and resources include:
  • Conversations With History: Collection of interviews with distinguished men and women from all over the world. Organized into Globetrotter Research Galleries by a variety of topics and Connecting Students to the World, curricula designed for high school students.
  • Chancellor's Forum on Nuclear Danger and Global Survival: Series of forums, most recently held in the fall of 2001
  • Foreign Policy after 911: Undergraduate course, open to the public as a lecture series, held in the spring of 2002; includes video links for the lectures
  • Women's Rights: Commentary by men and women on the unfinished struggle for women's rights, from the Conversations with History archive
  • Amnesty International's Human Rights Syllabi for the College Classroom: Syllabi compiled from colleges and universities throughout the US, and some foreign institutions, on human rights issues
    
    
• On-line Archive of California Part of the Calfornia Digital Library, the OAC is "a statewide digital resource that integrates into a single, searchable database, finding aids to and digital facsimiles of the contents of primary resource collections throughout California." This is an enormous on-line collection including texts, photographs and digital art reproductions. One particularly nice resource is the Museums in the Online Archive of California which includes annotated ethnographic field photographs from the Hearst Museum,  Chinese scrolls from the Berkeley Art Museum collection and African art from the Fowler Museum at UCLA.
  
  
• Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology has good on-line materials and an excellent outreach program for elementary and middle school students.Reservations for class visits should be made a minimum of two weeks in advance.
  
  
• Geo-Images project at UCBerkeley presents a wonderful series of slides gathered from the personal collections of Berkeley Geography faculty.
  http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/
   
• S*P*I*R*O Architectural Images - architectural images database - search by name, title, location or subject.
• UC Berkeley Museum & Archive Online Resources
• Berkeley History-Social Science Project
• Archaeological Research Facility (ARF) has an active outreach program with the schools. Check out their current work at the Presidio in San Francisco.
  
  
• Webcasts of classes, lectures, and events at U. C. Berkeley.
  

OFF-CAMPUS WORLD HISTORY RESOURCES

• Bay Area Resources Network for Internationalizing Education
  http://orias.berkeley.edu/IERN/IERNlibrary.htm
  
  
• Angel Island Immigration Barracks Museum
  http://www.angelisland.org/immigr02.html
  
  
• AP World History site by Jay Harmon
  http://harmonhistory.com/apwh.html
  

• Asian Art Museum: The museum has some well-annotated images from its rich collection on-line. Their education department also offers excellent teacher workshops and materials including videos, resource packets, slide sets and hands-on kits. (A number of their resource packets are available from the ORIAS lending library.)
  

• Bridging World History (Annenberg/CPB project) Bridging World History is organized into 26 thematic units along a chronological thread. Materials include videos, an audio glossary and a thematically-organized interactive.Free and on-line.
  http://www.learner.org/channel/courses/worldhistory/ 
  
  
• California State Standards for History/Social Science
  
  
• California International Studies Project
  
  
• Committee for Teaching About the U. N.
  http://www.ctaun.org/index.html
  
  
• EARMARC (East Asian Regional Materials and Resources Center), housed at the History Department at San Jose State University and supported by the Institute of East Asian Studies at U.C. Berkeley, offers an extensive free lending library for educators of video materials on East Asia. For a catalogue and further information, contact E. Bruce Reynolds. Email: ereynoldATemail.sjsu.edu (tel: 408-924-5518)
  
  
• Edsitement: National Endowment for the Humanities "Best of the Humanities on the Web" site for teachers.
  
  
• Federal Resources for Educational Support Free teaching and learning resources from federal agencies.
  http://www.free.ed.gov/index.cfm
  


• Geography
  
  • "Fill in the map" and identify cityscape geography quizzes online (JetPunk).
  • See Africa section below for more map games.


• Globalization.org (CSIS)
  http://www.globalization101.org/
  
  
• H-Net: This site provides information and resources for all those interested in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and serves as a central information storehouse for H-Net's extensive network of e-mail lists.
  http://www.h-net.msu.edu/
  • Includes H-World- H-Net discussion group serves as a network of communication among practitioners of world history.
    http://www.h-net.org/~world/
    
    
• InternationalEd.org InternationalEd.org is a website for Asia Society's initiative to improve K-12 teaching and learning about the geography, history, economics, culture and languages of other world regions. For their quite comprehensive Classroom Resources list see:
  www.internationaled.org/classroomresources.
  
  
• The MarcoPolo program provides no-cost, standards-based Internet content for the K-12 teacher and classroom, developed by the nation's content experts. Online resources include panel-reviewed links to top sites in many disciplines, professionally developed lesson plans, and classroom activities. Sites include materials to help with daily classroom planning, brief and extended lesson plans, reviewed and expert-approved links to related high-quality sites, and powerful search engines.http://www.wcom.com/marcopolo/
  
  
• Outreach World, a comprehensive one-stop resource for teaching international and area studies and foreign languages in the precollegiate classroom hosted by the 120 federally-funded National Resource Centers (NRCs) based at 146 universities, focusing on Africa, Asia, Canada, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, the Pacific Islands and International Studies, and 42 Language Resource Centers (LRCs) and Centers for International Business and Education Research (CIBERs) based at 44 universities and dedicated to promoting foreign language study and international business.
  
  
• SFMOMA ArtThink: ArtThink is the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's curriculum site, which provides theme-based activities in visual arts, language arts, history and social studies.
  
  
• SPICE: Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education: Housed in the Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, SPICE has produced over 100 supplementary curriculum units on Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Latin America, the global environment, and international political economy. They also have a few free units on-line at http://spice.stanford.edu/lp/index.html.
  
  
• Traditional Arts Program at California Academy of Sciences has a referral program to help find artists, performers, cooks, and craftspeople in traditional arts. Note: The Traditional Arts Program has been temporarily suspended while the CAS building is being rebuilt. They expect to re-open in late 2008.
  
  
• World History Connected - on-line journal of the World History Association)
  "World History Connected is designed for everyone who wants to deepen the engagement and understanding of world history: students, college instructors, high school teachers, leaders of teacher education programs, social studies coordinators, research historians, and librarians. For all these readers, WHC presents innovative classroom-ready scholarship, keeps readers up to date on the latest research and debates, presents the best in learning and teaching methods and practices, offers readers rich teaching resources, and reports on exemplary teaching. WHC is free worldwide. It is published by the University of Illinois Press, and its institutional home is Washington State University."
  
  
• World History For Us All: A model eletronic curriculum for world history in middle and high schools."World History for Us All" is a web-based model curriculum for world history in middle and high schools and is a cooperative project of the National Center for History in the Schools and San Diego State University. It is supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. World History for Us All offers a curriculum that: http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu
  • presents the human past as a single story rather than unconnected stories of many civilizations.
  • enables teachers to cover subject matter specified by district, state, and national standards within a conceptually logical and coherent framework.
  • includes a treasury of teaching units, lesson plans, activities, assessments, and resources.
  • shows teachers how to address thousands of years of human history in a single academic year without excluding major peoples, regions, or time periods.
    
    
• World History Matters is a resource portal for world history teachers hosted by the Center for History and New Media and George Mason University. It includes the two sites for primary sources below. http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorymatters/
  • World History Sources http://chnm.gmu.edu/whm/
  • Women in World History http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/index.html
    
    
• World Images database provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains over 65,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery. WorldImages is accessible anywhere and its images may be freely used for non-profit educational purposes.
  http://worldimages.sjsu.edu/
  
  
• World Saavy (a non-profit educational organization in San Francisco) facilitates a Teachers and Schools Program and two youth programs, the World Affairs Challenge and the Global Youth Media and Arts Program.
  http://worldsavvy.org

INTERNATIONALIZING EDUCATION ADVOCACY:

• American Forum
  http://www.globaled.org/
  
  
• Asia Society advocacy tools
  http://www.internationaled.org/advocacytools.htm
  
  
• International Studies Schools Association
  he International Studies Schools Association (ISSA) is a national network of K-12 schools dedicated to improving students’ understanding of the world.  The ISSA is administered by the Center for Teaching International Relations (CTIR) at the University of Denver Graduate School of International Studies.
  http://www.du.edu/issa/
  
  
• Longview Foundation "teacher preparation for the global age report"
  http://www.longviewfdn.org/122/teacher-preparation-for-the-global-age.html
  

INTERNET COLLABORATION with classrooms abroad:

• ePals is a Global Community of collaborative learners, teachers, and academic experts in 200 countries and territories.
  http://www.epals.com/
  
  
• iEARN (International Education and Resource Network) is a non-profit organization made up of over 27,000 schools and youth organizations in more than 125 countries. iEARN empowers teachers and young people to work together online using the Internet and other new communications technologies. Over 2,000,000 students each day are engaged in collaborative project work worldwide.
  http://www.iearn.org/

• BBC news service country profiles.
  
  
• CIA Factbook
  
  
• Country Reports general student friendly profiles of world countries
  
  
• CountryWatch.com is "an information provider for schools, universities, libraries and individuals who need up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world and for the public and private sector organizations with global operations and interests." Easy to read format and separate pages for students.
  
  
• Portals to the World - Facts and links to culture, economy, geography, government, history, languages, politics, religions, and other aspects of more than 150 nations, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Selected by area specialists and other staff at the Library of Congress. (Library of Congress) http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1878
  
  
• U. S. State Department background sheets include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty. The Background Notes are updated/revised by the Office of Electronic Information and Publications of the Bureau of Public Affairs as they are received from the Department's regional bureaus.

WORLD AREA LINKS:

Africa * Central Asia * East Asia : China | Japan | Korea * Southeast Asia * South Asia 
* Latin America * Slavic and East Europe * Middle East * Western Europe

AFRICA * (See also: U.C. Berkeley and Recommended Web Resources for World History.)

• Teaching About Africa, Africa America & the African Diaspora (Two-day institute organized the Center for African Studies with ORIAS,
  the Department of African American Studies, and the Center for Race and Gender, June 16-17, 2003)
• The Center for African Studies at U. C. Berkeley
  • CAS site includes an on-line database of syllabi relevant to African Studies
    http://ias.berkeley.edu/iasasp/africa/syllabi-selector.asp
  • CAS site includes Understanding Sudan - The resources and modules for teachers in high school, college, and universities to integrate into their courses. The web portal offers features of interest to educators, researchers, the policymaking community, and the general public.
    The Future of Sudan
    Sudan remains one of the poorest countries in the world, and South Sudan especially stands out as a region in desperate need of international attention and assistance. One of the important parts of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement that resolved the almost 50-year long civil war in Sudan is the timetable for the vote by southern Sudanese on whether to remain part of Sudan or whether to become an independent country. This referendum is to be held six years after the inauguration of the government of national unity, which occurred on September 22, 2005. So the referendum should be held September 22, 2011. We would like today's high school and university students to become part of that moment.
    http://understandingsudan.org/
• Africa Floods 2007: This year nearly 2 million square miles were inundated and an estimated 1.5 million people have been seriously impacted by flooding across Africa. Swollen rivers spilled over their banks and washed away houses, bridges and roads, crops, livestock, entire communities. In the aftermath large populations face famine and the outbreak of water-borne diseases like malaria and cholera. As global warming continues to effect climate change worldwide, climate change experts are warning that such events may become a more regular feature in Africa. The Africa Floods 2007 site is the work of concerned faculty and students at the University of California, Berkeley. (The University is not a sponsor or participant in the site.) Kwame Braun compiled the data and wrote the text.
  http://africafloods2007.googlepages.com/home
• ORIAS Bibliography of K-12 literature for Africa
• Africa Access was founded in 1989 to help schools, public libraries, and parents improve the quality of their children's collection on Africa.Their database for Annotations and Critiques of Children's Materials on Africa can be found at http://filemaker3.mcps.k12.md.us/aad/
  
• Africa South of the Sahara A collection of internet resources kept well up-dated by Karen Fung at Stanford University.
• African Studies Centers
  • African Studies Center at Boston University under Barbara Brown has an excellent set of lessons and handouts for teaching about Africa on-line at http://www.bu.edu/africa/outreach/materials/lessonplans/index.html
  • African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania "K-12 Electronic Guide for African Resources on the Internet" maintained by Ali B. Ali-Dinar, Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania
  • African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison Attention French teachers: Passeport à l'Afrique Francophone is a two-and-a-half hour long program of 26 clips suitable for French language classrooms from the beginning to advanced levels and featuring African speakers in French from all walks of life. Available in DVD or videocassette format, Passeport was produced in the Republic of Benin by the UW-Madison's African Studies Program's faculty and staff together with 14 American middle school, high school, and college-level French language instructors. Links to complementary curriculum units and sample clips can be found at http://www.africa.wisc.edu/outreach/passeport/index.htm Contact: ASP Outreach Coordinator, Eileen McNamara at outreach@africa.wisc.edu; tel 608.262.4461; fax 608.265.5851.
    
• Africa Information Center
• The Story of Africa: The History of Africa from the Dawn of Time. This wonderful site posted by the BBC World Service has excellent text, visual and audio pieces. "The Story of Africa tells the history of the continent from an African perspective."
• Dealing with African Crises in the K-14 Classroom, John Metzler's resource pages uses the AIDS example for discussing how to avoid the "constant crisis" perspective when teaching about Africa.
• From Facing History and Ourselves - Darfur Classroom Materials: Facing History and Ourselves and ENOUGH have partnered to create and distribute classroom materials to accompany the movie Darfur Now and the book Not On Our Watch. The teaching unit includes four lessons that:
  • provide an introduction to the genocide in Darfur
  • help students identify how activists have responded to violence in the region
  • encourage students to think about the complexity of activism and lastly,
  • ask students to connect this material to their own experiences and ideas about activism, genocide, and conflict resolution.
    http://www.facinghistory.org/darfur-project
• Amnesty International's Classroom Guide to the film Hotel Rwanda
  
• GlobaLink-Africa Curriculum Teacher Guidelines
• "Kingdoms of the Medieval Sudan," - is a well-designed site for introducing the history of West African kingdoms. Here is their blurb: an electronic exploration of the history of the African states of Songhay, Kanem-Bornu, and Hausaland. "Kingdoms" is a component of "Sacred and Secular in the African Americas ," an electronic project devoted to the African American humanities, and produced at Xavier University of Louisiana with the generous support of the Andrew Mellon Foundation. "Kingdoms of the Medieval Sudan" provides a narrative historical overview of Mali, Songhay, Kanem-Bornu, and Hausaland before the modern era, a hyperlinked glossary with pronunciation helps, and self-tests on the history of these regions.The text is also accompanied by the work of photographer Lucy Johnson.
• Mali Interactive
• Museum of African Art in New York City keeps a wonderful site with background and images from their exhibits such as ritual art of Mali and the Liberated Voices exhibit of modern South African art (includes maps, classroom activities, background, timeline).
• Smithsonian Museum's very slick interactive site African Voices is especially wonderful for introducing afro-pop music and making mud cloths. See also their wider African art collection.
• SchoolNetAfrica: The African Education Knowledge Warehouse (AEKW) is a pan-African education portal which services African SchoolNet practitioners, policymakers and school-based communities on ICTs in education across Africa. It provides a listing of schools in Africa with a presence on the Internet: Schools Online in Africa
• Oxfam's Cool Planet pages on Africa have images, sound and a well-organized exploration of Mali and Ghana that would be particularly useful for 7th grade. http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/teachers/resources/africa.htm
• Map games:
  • http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/African_Geography.htm
  • http://www.ilike2learn.com/ilike2learn/africa.html
  • http://www.purposegames.com/game/countries-of-africa-quiz
  • http://www.sporcle.com/games/africa.php
    

CENTRAL ASIA * (See also: U.C. Berkeley and Recommended Web Resources for World History.)

• The Institute for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, U. C. Berkeley
• CSEEES 9-11 PAGE. The Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasion Studies has posted a web page listing U. C. Berkeley resources and experts on Afghanistan and Central Asia relevant to the events of September 11, 2001.
• Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul. This online teachers' resource was created by the The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco to accompany its 2008–09 special exhibition of the same name. It includes images, art and archeology hands-on projects, and a useful timeline.
  http://www.asianart.org/pdf/education/Afghanistan-workshop.pdf
• The Archive of Turkish Oral Literature at Texas Tech University has many resources on Central Asia including images, sounds, and articles.

EAST ASIA - CHINA | JAPAN | KOREA * (See also: U.C. Berkeley and Recommended Web Resources for World History.)

EAST ASIA GENERAL

UNIVERSITY EAST ASIAN PROGRAM SITES

• Asia for Educators - Columbia University resource site for students and educators.
• Educator Resources at Cornell University's East Asian Program
  http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/eastasia/outreach/resources.asp
• The Institute of East Asian Studies at U. C. Berkeley : ORIAS, public lectures, publications, and symposia.
  http://ieas.berkeley.edu
• Resources on East Asia for K-12 classrooms compiled by the East Asian Study Center at Indiana University.
  http://www.indiana.edu/~easc/outreach/educators/index.shtml
• Online Resources at Yale University - Program in International Educational Resources (PIER)
  http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/pier/resources/eastasia.htm
• Resource Links from University of Colorado Boulder - Program for Teaching East Asia
  http://www.colorado.edu/cas/TEA/tealinks.html
• K-12 Resource Links from University of Pennsylvania, Center for East Asian Studies
  http://www.ceas.sas.upenn.edu/outreach.shtml

OTHER INSTITUTIONAL SITES

• AskAsia: Resources for teachers and students offered by the Asia Society.
  http://www.askasia.org/
• Asia for Educators - Extensive resources for teaching China and Japan from East Asian Curriculum Project (EACP)-- Columbia University
  http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/
• The Asia in the Curriculum (AIC) Bulletin is the announcement and discussion site of the Symposium on Asia in the Curriculum, a group of undergraduate and secondary school educators who teach about Asia
  http://www.asiainthecurriculum.org/ .
  
• Asian Art Museum, San Francisco 
  (Educator resources: http://www.asianart.org/educatorresources.htm)
  
• Expanding East Asian Studies Program (ExEAS) - Supported by a grant from the Freeman Foundation and based at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute of Columbia University, the Expanding East Asian Studies (ExEAS) website presents innovative courses and teaching materials that incorporate the study of East Asia in broad thematic, transnational, and interdisciplinary contexts and provides models for incorporating East Asia into general education, disciplinary, and survey courses in undergraduate curricula.
  http://www.exeas.org/
• Maps of Asia (Texas U.)
  http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/asia.html
• Chinese Media Guide
  http://www.chineseadvertisingagencies.com/mediaguide/index.html
• Museums in the Online Archive includes lots of East Asian visual materials including Chinese scrolls from the Berkeley Art Museum http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/moac/classic/
• National Consortium for Teaching About Asia (NCTA) - Freeman Foundation funded program for professional development in teaching about East Asia.
  http://www.nctasia.org/
  
• From Silk to Oil: Cross-Cultural Connections Along the Silk Road - travel the deserts and mountain passes of Central Asia with on-line curriculum. This book of global studies curriculum, funded by the U.S. Department of Education and produced by China Institute, begins in the second century BCE and ends in the contemporary period. A pdf file of the book is online at:
  http://www.chinainstitute.org/educators/silkguide.html

CHINA * (See also: U.C. Berkeley and Recommended Web Resources for World History.)

• China the Beautiful Good pages for students on: Classical Chinese Art, Calligraphy, Poetry, History, Literature, Painting and Philosophy webmastered by Ming L. Pei.
  http://chinapage.com/china.html
• China Digital Times at U.C. Berkeley.
  CDT is a bilingual news website covering China’s social and political transition and its emerging role in the world. We aggregate the most up-to-the-minute news and analysis about China from around the Web, while providing independent reporting, translations from Chinese cyberspace, perspectives from across the geographical, political and social spectrum, and daily recommendations of readings from the Chinese blogosphere.
  http://chinadigitaltimes.net/
• China Today data base on China.
  http://www.chinatoday.com/
• Patricia Ebrey's site A Visual Sourcebook for Chinese Civilization is a great resource for images specially organized for teaching Chinese history, culture and society. It also has good time lines and maps.
  http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/
• New York Times site on contemporary China. In a discussion arranged by The Times on the Web, experts consider the state of modern China in this exclusive audio report.  Additional features include a collection of articles, maps, slide shows and reader discussions that bring you a detailed look at the religious, economic and military issues facing Communist China.
  http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/index-china.html
• Peabody Essex Museum Teacher Resources: China, Japan, and Korea.
  http://www.pem.org/visit/ed_asia.php
• A selected bibliography (37 pages) of primary and secondary sources and curricular resources to assist in teaching about East Asia at the K-12 level assembled by Indiana University's East Asian Studies Center.

JAPAN* (See also: U.C. Berkeley and Recommended Web Resources for World History.)

• Japan: This visual literacy exercise created by Lee A. Makela at Cleveland State University is based on selected woodblock prints from a famous series depicting scenic views of the Fifty Three Stations of the Tokaido. It provides a rigorous exercise in studying elements of geography and culture through images.
  http://www.csuohio.edu/history/exercise/vlehome.html
• About Japan: A Teachers' Resource from the Japan Society offers materials for K-12 educators including background readings and lessons for teachers and students including a good page on using popular culture to teach about Japan.
  http://www.journeythroughjapan.org/
• National Clearinghouse for US-Japan Studies: Lots of information for teaching about Japan including internet resources, lesson plans, and publications.
  http://spice.stanford.edu/

KOREA* (See also: U.C. Berkeley and Recommended Web Resources for World History.)

• KoreaK12.org: Lesson Books and Curriculum Materials from the Korea Society. Highly recommended! Especially good is the Silla Korea and the Silk Road: Golden Age, Golden Threads unit.
  http://koreak12.org/
• Center for Korean Studies at U.C. Berkeley's Teaching About Korea in K-12 Schools project.
  http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/k12_institute_2004.07.html
  

MEXICO/LATIN AMERICA * (See also: U.C. Berkeley and Recommended Web Resources for World History.)

From the Center for Latin American Studies at UC Berkeley:

• Ten Years After NAFTA: How Has Globalization Affected Mexico? (Three-day teacher's institute organized by the Center for Latin American Studies, July 21-23, 2003)
• Teaching Resources from the Center for Latin American Studies: Maps, Graphs for Population and Economics and Timelines
• MIGRATIONS: A Collection of Views on Mexican Immigration to the United States - suite of Digital Learning Materials, produced at the Center for Latin American Studies, introduces
  students and learners to the history and some of the challenges surrounding the immigration of Mexicans to the United States. The website outlines immigration issues along the Mexico/United States border from the Treaty of Guadalupe, in 1848, up to recent contactsbetween the Fox/Bush administrations.
• ORIAS Mesoamerican literature links page - archived from History Through Literature 7th grade workshop.

SOUTH ASIA * (See also: U.C. Berkeley and Recommended Web Resources for World History.)

• The Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS)at U. C. Berkeley. The maintains a web page with useful links to history through literature,the independence of India and the creation of Pakistan, developed during their outreach conferences during the past two years.
• Afghanistan, the Taliban, and the US: selected internet resources posted by CSAS
• Echoes of Freedom: South Asian Pioneers in California. This exhibit mounted by South and Southeast Asian Library at U. C. Berkeley has put their wonderful catalogue full of great photos and history on-line at: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/echoes/toc.html
• ORIAS Current Conflicts Working Group (2003) includes a class page with recommended links on Kashmir at http://orias.berkeley.edu/2003/peace/peaceKashmir.htm
• India: The University of Washington South Asia Center's has a very useful outreach page with lessons and links.
• First stop for web resources on the Ramayana is "The Ramayana, an Enduring Tradition: its Text and Context"
• Timeline of ancient India http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/timeline/timeline.htm
• Digital South Asia Library at University of Chicago http://dsal.uchicago.edu/
• The American Forum for Global Education posts an extensive curriculum guide at: Teaching Contemporary South Asia . Focusing on the countries of Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, Teaching Contemporary South Asia features a multimedia collection of primary and secondary source materials, narratives, literature, poetry, maps and video clips designed to supplement and enrich existing classroom documents. http://www.teachingsouthasia.org
• ORIAS teacher's page for Ramayana
• ORIAS teacher's page for Mithila Painting
• Valmiki Ramayana Translation Project at U. C. Berkeley

SOUTHEAST ASIA * (See also: U.C. Berkeley and Recommended Web Resources for World History.)

• The Center for Southeast Asian Studies at U. C. Berkeley
  
• Southeast Asia Film Guide (Sarah Maxim, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, U. C. Berkeley)
• Teaching About Southeast Asia. During the Summer 2001 three educators spent six weeks as visiting scholars at ORIAS researching and developing materials on Southeast Asia appropriate for K-12 curriculum in California. The project was funded by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at U. C. Berkeley. The teacher/scholars and their projects were:
  • Kay Corcoran (6th grade teacher at White Hill, Fairfax): Maritime Spice Trade from Southeast Asia to Rome. (site under construction at Monsoon Winds to the "Land of Gold")
  • Donna Kasprowicz (6th grade teacher at Corte Madera Middle School, Portola Valley): The Ramayana in Southeast Asia.
  • Peter Whittlesey (former Library Media Coordinator and teacher currently living in Laos): A web reference of annotated sites for teaching about Southeast Asia
• East Timor, The World's Newest Country: high school level workbook on East Timor is available on line from Center for South East Asia Studies at the University of Hawaii.
• Field Guide to Hmong Culture - from the Madison Children's Museum http://csumc.wisc.edu/cmct/HmongTour/howwedidit/HMONG_FIELD_GUIDE_WEB.pdf
• U.C. Irvine Library Southeast Asia Archive
  http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/collections/sea/sasian.html
• An excellent slide show with hip-hop soundtrack documenting Cambodian-American life in the US since 1996, and more recently the deportation of Cambodian-Americans back to Cambodia. This is the work of Stuart Isett, a photographer who has lived for a long time in SEA and is now based in Seattle. The link to the slideshow is: http://isett.com/lostboyz.mov. The photos are also on his regular website: http://www.isett.com.

SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES * (See also: U.C. Berkeley and Recommended Web Resources for World History.)

• The Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at U. C. Berkeley. The ISEEES maintains an outreach page which includes a list of useful websites for Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

MIDDLE/NEAR EAST - * (See also: U.C. Berkeley and Recommended Web Resources for World History.)

GENERAL| MIDDLE EAST and ISLAM | ISRAEL | MIDDLE EASTERN AMERICANS

• Global Connections: the Middle East.  A rich educator's site hosted by PBS with maps, time lines, lessons, organizing themes and questions. Sections on U.S. Foreign Policy; Relgious Militancy; Roles of Women; Stereotypes; Natural Resources; Nation-States.

MIDDLE EAST and ISLAM

• The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at U. C. Berkeley
  
• Innovative Approaches To Teaching About Islam In The Pre-Collegiate Classroom: A Special Panel for K-12 Teachers and Other Scholars at the Middle East Studies Annual Meeting. November 21, 2004. Topics archived from this panel cover films, videos, music, dolls, and law.
• ORIAS working group on Iraq
• Teaching About the Middle East. This page of resources on using film, literature and the Internet as teaching resources was developed by ORIAS for the 2001 Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting.
• Islam Project. ORIAS maintains an extensive list of web resources on Islam and in 1997-98 collaborated in an Interactive University Project with Nick Bartel and Marg Costello at Horace Mann Middle School in San Francisco to integrate technology into the 7th grade curriculum on the Spread of Islam. The teachers have also created a very helpful web page with their own class experiences and a thoughtful collection of links for student research.
• Interactive Video Tapestry: Young Americans - both male and female, ages 16 - 24 across a spectrum of religious, ethnic and cultural backgrounds are interviewed about their post-9/11 views on the Middle East. It is organized in such a way that the interviews can be views individually or answers compared across the group. It makes an excellent discussion resource and model for similar student interview projects.
• http://www.videotapestry.org/
• 100 Questions and Answers About Arab American: A Journalist Guide (by the Detroit Free Press)
  http://www.freep.com/legacy/jobspage/arabs/
• Arab world in the Middle East and North Africa
• Beduin weaving  Information and articles written, with many photos, on Beduin textile techniques and lifestyles in Arabia.
• Maps of the Middle East and Islamic History Barbara R. von Schlegell's site at Ursinus College, Pennsylvania.
• U. S. State Department background sheet on Afghanistan.

MIDDLE/NEAR EAST and ISRAEL

• Jewish Agency for Israel education page.
• Maps - Dartmouth class site
• Israel/Palestine conflict (ORIAS working group 2002-3)

MIDDLE EASTERN AMERICANS

• MEARO (Middle Easter American Resources On-line) is a joint project of the UCLA Middle Eastern American Program based at the Center for Near Eastern Studies and the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center at the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY).
  http://www.mearo.org

WESTERN EUROPE * (See also: U.C. Berkeley and Recommended Web Resources for World History.)

• The Institute of European Studies at U. C. Berkeley : posts an extensive collection of resources and links on individual European countries and the European Union at http://ies.berkeley.edu/resources/index.html
• German Unification Case Study is a very well done lesson activity for high school students out of a team at Stanford University with funding from Foothill College.

  
  "The purpose of this case study is to jointly resolve particular issues surrounding German unification. Each participant assumes a German character and takes part in a roundtable discussion. There are two discussion groups, each dealing with separate, yet interconnected issues. Each group has a mixture of East and West Germans. The first group focuses on social issues such as abortion rights, child care and housing rights. The second group deals with issues surrounding the military, border guards and environmental protection.By assuming the identity of a German character and participating in a discussion group, you will experience the challenges which Germans faced in the process of uniting two countries under vastly different political systems. This Web site and its links will help you to explore your character's background and the individual as well as national issues s/he faces. During the discussion, your group's task is to forge a working relationship and to come to mutually agreed upon solutions to ethical, social and economic issues."

Contact: Michele Delattre at the Office of Resources for International and Area Studies (ORIAS) at oriasberkeley.edu or by calling 510/643-0868.
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