Muslims in Children's Books

good article from School Library Journal, http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6367083.html&

NPR.org - Workplace Woes: He Hovers While You Work

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cultural factor: manager &personal space (US v Yugoslav)

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language lore, URL

http://www.nvtc.gov/lotw/months/december/Swedish.html
Swedish (Svenska) - introduction

http://www.nvtc.gov/lotw/months/november/learningExpectations.html
Language Learning Difficulty for English Speakers

http://www.nvtc.gov/lotw/languageList.html
Language Listing - to learn more about its history, status, sound system,
grammar, vocabulary, writing and much more...

http://www.nvtc.gov/lotw/aboutLanguage.html
About Language: Language Origins, The Range of World Languages, Language
Families, Endangered Languages

exhibit link "How real is race?"

http://www.understandingrace.org/home.html

archeology lessons, grades 5-12

Archaeology: History Found in Pieces (pdf 1.81 MB)
http://www.independenceparkinstitute.com/ArcheologyLessonPlans1-16-07.pdf
This is a downloadable, curriculum-based, educational program meeting Pennsylvania and New Jersey Standards. It was created by the Independence Park Institute (IPI) at Independence National Historical Park. Students take on the role of archeologists and piece together the stories of the buried past. The lesson plans have students investigate primary and secondary history resources. (Grades 5-12).

table of contents, "how real is Race"

Table of Contents for How Real is Race? A Sourcebook On Race, Culture, and Biology

• The Fallacy Of Race As Biology
  
  • Why Contemporary Races Are Not Scientifically Valid
    
  • Human Biological Variation: What We Don't See
    
  • If Not Race, How Do We Explain Biological Differences?
    
  • More Alike Than Different; More Different Than Alike
    
• Culture Creates Race
  
  • Culture Shapes How We Experience Reality
    
  • Culture and Classification: Race Is Culturally Real
    
  • Race and Inequality: Race as a Social Invention to Achieve Certain Goals
    
  • Cross-Cultural Overview of Race
    
  • If Race Doesn't Exist, What Are We Seeing? Sex, Mating, and Race
    
• Race And Hot Button Issues In Schools
  
  • Assemblies, Clubs, Slurs, and Racial Labels
    
  • The Academic Achievement Gap and Equity
    
  • Racial and Racialized Conflicts
    
  • Interracial Flirting and Dating in Schools
    
• Resources
  
  • References
    
  • Alignment with Standards
    
  • List of Teaching Activities
    
  • Illustrations List
    

mapping literature with Google Earth

http://www.googlelittrips.org/

Follow the wanderings of Odysseus, the travels of Candide, or the journey
of the Joads, among others. This site uses Google Earth technology to
locate fiction and nonfiction in real places. [cf. flickr.com "geo tags"
for pictures taken at specific locales]

NPR.org - Finding the Beauty in Skin: A Natural History

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linguistic anthro, Archiving the Worlds Accents (npr story)

A Sound Idea: Archiving the Worlds Accents
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7696195&sc=emaf

Native Americans - Internet Resources

<http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/native.htm>

"Welcome to the Internet School Library Media Center Native American page.

You will find bibliographies, directories to pages of individual tribes,
history and historical documents, periodicals and general links.

The ISLMC is a preview site for teachers, librarians, students and
parents. You can search this site, use an index or sitemap.
The following sites have useful information on Native Americans. This page
revised 1/22/00.

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