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East Asian trading ships: Each student will work with a partner as an owner of an overseas shipping company with one cargo ship in East Asia. Students are given these instructions in the overview: In each Asian country that you travel to you will fill your cargo ship with items that you can buy from the list of exports. You will then try to sell these items when you travel to another country that is willing to import these commodities. The winner of the game is the company with the biggest profits at the end of the pretend 15 day time period. Good Luck!; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Social Studies); By Tami Kaiser Polge.

Resources on the web

Asia for Educators: Features classroom materials and teaching guides on Asia for use by educators and students in world history, culture, geography, art, and literature. (Learn more); Format: website/lesson plan; Provided by: Columbia University

Colonial Williamsburg: This extensive website features access to the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library collections, primary source materials, videos of what life was like in the 18th century in Williamsburg, Va. and much more. (Learn more); Format: website/lesson plan; Provided by: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Cool Planet for Teachers: This site from OxFam helps teachers bring global issues into the classroom. (Learn more); Format: website/lesson plan; Provided by: OxFam

Foreign Policy Association (FPA) Great Decisions Educators Corner: This free resource provides professional development, global educational resources, a teacher's forum, workshops, global conferences, grants and much more. (Learn more); Format: website/lesson plan; Provided by: Foreign Policy Association

From boomtown to ghost town: In order to fully understand the geographic concept of natural resource use, students should learn about the ways that resource extraction affects the physical and human landscape. In this lesson, provided by National Geographic, they'll discuss how a specific... (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Social Studies); Provided by: Xpeditions

Future State: U.S. Department of State for Youth: This resource is designed to provide teachers and parents with educational resources for the inclusion of current events and world news in the classroom. (Learn more); Format: website/lesson plan; Provided by: Department of State

Learning Network: New York Times On The Web: The New York Times On The Web's Learning Network offers daily lesson plans, education news, and current events quizzes and daily news summaries for students. (Learn more); Format: website/lesson plan; Provided by: New York Times

North By South: Culture, traditions, history and impact of the communities resulting from the 1900-1960 African-American migrations from south to north. (Learn more); Format: website/lesson plan; Provided by: Kenyon College

Spices in your favorite foods: Studying spices is a tasty way for students to learn about natural resources, trade, and our use of international products. In this lesson students will discover the importance of spices in history and will focus on the significance of spices in the foods... (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Social Studies); Provided by: Xpeditions

Trekking to Timbuktu—student version: In the eight lessons of this EDSITEment curriculum unit, students will learn about the geography of Mali and the cultures and economies along the Niger River, find out about the three kingdoms that evolved in ancient and medieval West Africa, discover how... (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Social Studies); Provided by: EDSITEment