RESOURCES FOR TEACHING ABOUT LATIN AMERICA

Resources on Latin America

LANIC: Latin American Network Information Center
University of Texas at Austin website. THE place to start to research any Latin America-related topic. (Lesson plans, too).
http://lanic.utexas.edu/

Outreach World
Website of US Dept. of Education National Resource Centers. Wide variety of information on the world regions as well as state of the art teaching materials.
http://www.outreachworld.org

Librarians’ Internet Index
A publicly-funded website featuring links to websites selected by a team of librarians. Search by country or topic.
http://lii.org/

LANIC: Newspapers and News
Excellent list of links to information on the press in Latin America, and to newspapers in each country of the region.
http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/news/

World Newspapers, Magazines, and News Sites in English
Links to print media in English.
http://www.world-newspapers.com/

BBC News: Americas
The BBC is an outstanding source of news about the Americas (Canada and US included). Past news stories are archived and can be easily accessed. Important issues, past and present, are explored in articles, analysis, profiles, timelines. There are also profiles of each country in the hemisphere (go to bottom of page).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/default.stm   

Electronic Embassy
Links to foreign embassy websites, veritable treasure troves of information. Usually bilingual.
http://www.embassy.org/ > Embassies

CIA Factbook
The default source of basic information on any country in the world. Includes maps.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

Resources for Teaching about Latin America

Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad
US Dept. of Education program for K-12 teachers. Participants travel to the region to explore specific themes. The Latin American centers at U T Austin and U Pittsburgh, frequent facilitators, upload resulting teaching materials to their websites:
http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/etext/llilas/outreach/index.html
http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/outreach/k-12.html#prof_development > Curriculum

TeachGlobalEd.net: Online Resources for Global Educators
Product of the ongoing collaboration of Ohio State University's Social Studies and Global Education program with OSU's Area Studies Centers and Indiana University's Center for the Study of Global Change.
http://teachglobaled.net/

SPICE: Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education
Multidisciplinary curriculum materials on international themes. Top quality; purchase required for most.
http://spice.stanford.edu/

EDSITEment
Designed to help educators integrate the Internet as a standard classroom resource, this site covers valuable online resources, including lesson plans, for teaching social studies and foreign languages to all grade levels.
http://edsitement.neh.gov/

Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM)
Annotated directory of Internet lesson plans, curriculum units, and activities pertaining to K-12 subjects. Users can browse sites by subject or keyword, desired grade or education level. They can also search by subject, keyword, title, and full text of the site description. From the U.S. Department of Education.
http://thegateway.org/

Américas Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature
The Américas Award is given yearly in recognition of US works of fiction, poetry, folklore, or non-fiction published in the previous year in English or Spanish that authentically and engagingly portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States. Website includes list of previous winners.
http://www4.uwm.edu/clacs/aa/index.cfm

FLTeach: Foreign Language Teaching Forum
E-mail listserv for language teachers. Many good links on Resources webpage.
http://www.cortland.edu/FLTEACH/flteach-res.html#spanish

US Department of Education Title VI National Resource Centers (NRCs) for Latin America and the Caribbean
Service to K-12 educators is an important part of the mission of all NRCs:

Brown University: http://www.watsoninstitute.org/clacs/
Georgetown University: http://clas.georgetown.edu/
Harvard University: http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/
Indiana University: http://www.indiana.edu/~clacs/
Tulane University: http://stonecenter.tulane.edu/
University of California, Berkeley: http://www.clas.berkeley.edu:7001/
University of California, Los Angeles: http://www.international.ucla.edu/lac/
University of Michigan: http://www.ii.umich.edu/lacs/
University of Pittsburgh: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/
University of Texas at Austin: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/insts/llilas/
Vanderbilt University: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/clas/
Yale University: http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/lais/  
Columbia University: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ilas/
New York University: http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/program/latin/
Duke University: http://clacs.aas.duke.edu/
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: http://www.ilas.unc.edu/
University of Florida: http://www.latam.ufl.edu/
Florida International University: http://lacc.fiu.edu/
San Diego State University: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~latamweb/
University of California, San Diego: http://cilas.ucsd.edu/
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: http://www.clacs.uiuc.edu/
University of Chicago: http://clas.uchicago.edu/
University of Wisconsin, Madison: http://www.lacis.wisc.edu/
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee: http://www4.uwm.edu/clacs/

Professional Associations
Most association websites include resources for educators, including announcements of professional development opportunities.
           
National Council for the Social Studies
http://www.socialstudies.org/

Ohio Council for the Social Studies
http://www.ocss.org/

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
http://www.actfl.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1

Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
http://www.csctfl.org/

Ohio Foreign Language Association
http://www.ofla-online.org/index.php?cc=1