In this lesson, students will select one piece of Islamic art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art website and complete an art analysis worksheet. Students will be able to recognize characteristics of Islamic art, compare them to non-Islamic art, and explain why Islamic art often looks different from non-Islamic art.

In this lesson, students will be reminded of the greenhouse effect. In small groups of 3-4 students, they will be given a chemical compound related to climate change to research. They will become proficient in the chemical and physical properties of the compound and proceed to research its impact in climate change and connect it to combustion or ocean acidification. The groups will conclude their work by informing their classmates about the process and explaining what we can do each day to help limit our personal production of greenhouse gases.

In this lesson, students will identify characteristics of Chilean new song. They will identify themes and style of the Chilean new song in two specific selections, which thematically focus on revolutionary activists of the 19th and 20th century (Bolivar and Che Guevara). The presentation needed for this lesson has been entered in the database as a separate resource. The song lyrics needed for this resource can be found at: http://pier.macmillan.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Simon%20Bolivar_Inti_Illi_Lyrics.pdf and http://pier.macmillan.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Aparecido%20-%20Lyrics.pdf

This supplemental material is meant to be used in conjunction with the lesson "Chilean New Song and Revolutionary Activists." In this lesson, students will identify characteristics of Chilean new song. They will identify themes and style of the Chilean new song in two specific selections, which thematically focus on revolutionary activists of the 19th and 20th century (Bolivar and Che Guevara).

In this 5E lesson, students will be able to describe the effects of geological events on ancient civilizations.

This lesson focuses on economic interconnection and how transportation networks allow the rapid movement of goods from one place to another. Students will start learning how a sophisticated transportation network facilitates the trafficking of human beings.

In this lesson, students will look at the history of U.S. involvement in El Salvador during the 1970s and 1980s. Their examination will consist of various readings from different perspectives on this topic. Readings and other sources will discuss U.S. military and economic support for the El Salvadoran government, especially under the Reagan administration (1981-1989). Group work will consist of choosing texts to examine, discussing the texts, and presenting group findings to the class as a whole.

The unit introduces traditional Confucian values of Chinese society, and then examines how modernity, urbanization and globalization challenge traditional values. Also included is guided questions and independent studies related to Lixin Fan’s Last Train Home, a 2009 documentary about the complex cultural and economic struggles of migrant workers.

This lesson provides students with an opportunity to examine critically the anti-imperialist poetry of Ruben Dario and Pablo Neruda. Through collaboration in small groups, students will consider audience, tone, and
point of view—as well as the ways in which the two poets conceptualize the complex nature of the colonial relationship through the use of metaphor and other techniques. As a summative assessment, students will be asked to compose their own poem which explores the theme of colonialism in a context beyond Latin America (for example, Sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia).

In this lesson, students will explore the concept and impact of migration/immigration through personal and family background experiences and how these have and will impact the world.