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1. The Crucible
...le: The Crucible Topic Area: Communications/Language Arts Grade Level: 9-12 Time Frame: seven days Key Words: The Crucible, Arthur Miller, Pulitzer Prize, Marilyn Monroe, Salem Witchcraft Trials, McCarthyism, House Committee on Un-American Activities, Senator Joseph McCarthy, "Red Scare," Puritans, Barbados Unit Designer: Myrna Hill (MH092) Unit Designer E-mail: Myrna.Hill@k12.sd.us School District: Meade Date Added: 6/25/2002 2:22:39 PM Date Last Revised: 6/25/2002 2:22:39 PM Peer Reviewer: Twyla Barden Peer Reviewer E-mail: Twyla.Barden@k12.sd.us SD Content Standard Goals (SD Content Standards): Comm...

2. Introduction to United Nations
...aims and purposes of the United Nations. Students will recognize the seven key areas of the Millennium Declaration.? Materials: Use of a computer or other media to present photo/slide show http://www.fao.org/SIDS/photos/11798_en.htm Photos with captions to explain what has been done as part of the Barbados Program of Action (BPOA) Millennium Declaration of Sept. 2000 found at http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/ millennium.htm Student packet for each student, provided in this lesson plan Teacher packet provided in this lesson plan?? Preparation:? Make sure media equipment is available and in good working...

3. GNP simulation using foods in the Americas
...ed in the floor, ignored during the meal and are served only oatmeal and dirty drinking water. Obvious, the disparity is an important point. This is later addressed in the debriefing discussion to be held at the end of the meal. DATA FOR GNPs (in dollars) USA 23,120 Bahamas 12,020 Puerto Rico 6,610 Barbados 6,530 Argentina 6,050 Mexico 3,470 Venezuela 2,900 Brazil 2,770 Chile 2,730 Panama 2,440 Belize 2,210 Costa Rica 2,000 Paraguay 1,340 Colombia 1,290 El Salvador 1,170 Ecuador 1,070 Domin. Repub. 1,040 Guatemala 980 Peru 950 Bolivia 680 Honduras 580 Haiti 380 Assessment Suggested Discussion Topics: A...

4. George Washington: A National Treasure
...mportant life events, his personal characteristics). Draw a chart on the chalkboard that lists the students responses. Use the following list for additional ideas: childhood at Ferry Farm copying the Rules of Civility relationship with and influence of his half-brother Lawrence, including travel to Barbados time spent at Mount Vernon land surveying farming and tobacco marriage to Martha participation in the Virginia militia French and Indian War involvement with Virginia politics and the House of Burgesses representing Virginia at the Continental Congress being chosen commander in chief during the Amer...

5. Rice Is All Around Us! Lesson Plan
...Everybody comes home asking, "What?s for dinner?" but the answers that kids get can be very different depending upon family food traditions. In Everybody Cooks Rice, Carrie samples a wide variety of meals being cooked in her neighborhood. Families are from Vietnam, China, Haiti, Puerto Rico, India, Barbados, and Italy. Although the ingredients and favors are very different, each household is cooking with rice. 2. Collect recipes. In your classroom, talk about the origins of your families? food traditions. What common foods, such as rice or bread, can you identify? 3. Ask someone at home to help you wri...

6. Teaching English Language Arts: Front loading the novel In the Castle of my Skin
Teaching English Language Arts : Sophia HomePage :: Categories :: PageIndex :: RecentChanges :: RecentlyCommented :: Login/Register Front loading the novel In the Castle of my Skin Author: George Lamming was born in Barbados in 1927. He was educated through high school then he left for Trinidad. Lamming immigrated to England where he was a broadcaster for the BBC. He entered academia in 1967 as a writer-in-residence and lecturer in the Creative Arts Centre and Department of Education at the University of the West Indies...

7. Dr. Kathie Nunley's Layered Curriculum Web Site for Educators
...of: A. Weak nations over strong nations B. Developing nations over third world countries C. Strong nations over weaker nations D. Politically advanced nations over dictatorships 19. After the Spanish American War, the U.S. acquired the Philippines, Guam, and A. Puerto Rico B. Cuba C. Wake Island D. Barbados 20. This treaty gave the U.S. the exclusive right to build a canal in Panama A. Treaty of Paris 1898 B. Cooper-Pinchot Treaty C. Hay-Pauncefote Treaty D. Hays-Roosevelt Treaty 20. Roosevelt announced the U.S. would intervene in affairs in Latin American whenever necessary. This announcement was know...

8. Travel
...one for each student/group) 7. Multiple copies of (one for each student): Taylor, Theodore. The Cay. New York: Avon Books, 1993. Taylor, Theodore. Timothy of the Cay. New York: Avon Books, 1969. 8. A map that includes the U.S. and the Caribbean 9. Possible book sources for research Broberg, Merle. Barbados. Chelsea Honse, 1989. Hanmer, Trudy J. Haiti. Watts, 1988. Lye, Keith. Take a Trip to Jamaica. Watts, 1988. Morris, Emily. Cuba. Steck-Vaughn, 1991. 10. Possible folktale sources: Berry, James. The Future-Telling Lady and Other Stories. Harper Collins, 1993. Frane, Lessac. Caribbean Canvas. Lippinco...

9. Outbreak!
...idemic remain? 3. Explain to students that they will conduct research and create a presentation for the class based on the global AIDS/ H.I.V. epidemic. Students should be divided into small groups, and assigned a country to investigate. Countries include: United States, Canada, Dominican Republic, Barbados, Jamaica, Haiti, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, England, Japan, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Australia, India, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, and South Africa. After the selection process, students are to answer the following guiding questions to explore how the H.I.V./AIDS epidemic is being dealt with in their as...

10. Weather Guesser
...s International Meteorology to the top Algeria - Office National de la M?t?orologie Antarctica online Argentina - Servicio Meteorol?gico Nacional Australia - Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology Austria - Zentralanstalt f?r Meteorologie und Geodynamik (ZAMG) Azerbaijan - Hydrometeorological Committee Barbados - Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology Belgium - Royal Meteorological Institute (RMI) Bermuda - weather Brazil - Center for Weather Forecasts and Climate studies Brunei - Meteorological Service Buenos Aires - Departamento de la Atm?sfera Bulgaria - National Institute of Meteorology and...