K-12: Resources
Indiana Project for Latin American Cultural Competency (IPLACC)
This project is funded by CLACS and was created to assist Indiana teachers with locating adequate resources in order to infuse their curricula with Latin American and Latino topics. One of the important aspects of the project includes the effort to make available curriculum materials, lesson plans, and research guides that meet Indiana's educational standards. It is CLACS' intent to work collaboratively with educators in order to enrich the learning experience of all K-12 students as well as meet the state's cultural competency requirement. Please visit the IPLACC Website for more information.
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Please join CLACS in expanding our database. Email us your successful lesson plans. Be sure to include your name, grade you teach, and school. clacs@indiana.edu
Literature and Research Guides*
Growing up Latino in the U.S.A.– American Library Association
http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/alscresources/booklists/GrowingUpLatino.htm
Latino Heritage Booklist– Fresno County Public Library
http://www.fresnolibrary.org/child/bkch/bklists/hispanic.html
Chicano/Latino Studies Quick Guides-Standford University
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/adams/shortcu/chic.html
Celebrating Hispanic Americans!-Western Washington University
http://www.library.wwu.edu/ref/subjguides/ed/edtopics/spr05hispan.htm
Bilingual Booklist-National Education Association
http://www.nea.org/readacross/resources/bilingualbooks.html
*Please contact CLACS for a hardcopy of any list
Lesson Plans
PBS Teacher Source
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/
Keywords: Latino, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Central America
Sample Lesson Plan: Soldados: Soldiers' Stories
Conduct an oral history interview to gain insight into what it is like to be a soldier, to gain knowledge about the Vietnam War and to understand the Chicano experience in the United States.
Grade Level: High School
Arts & Literature: Non-Fiction: Biography and Autobiography
Social Studies: Cultural Studies: Latino American/Chicano Studies, United States History: 1968-1989
American Memory-The Library of Congress*
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/
Sample Lesson Plan:
America Dreams...through the decades
By completing this WebQuest, your students will demonstrate their understanding of the American Dream. They will:
1) analyze, interpret, and conduct research with digitized primary source documents
2) interpret 19th and 20th century social life in the United States using digitized documents from the American Memory collections
3) define, present and defend their ideas about what the American Dream has been, through the decades
4) relate what they have uncovered from inquiry and research to their own American Dream
*websites provide various handouts for teachers & students
Resource Centers
Smithsonian Center for Latino InitiativesAvailable through CLACS:
http://latino.si.edu/
Inter-University Program for Latino Research-Notre Dame
http://www.nd.edu/~iuplr/research_aids.htm
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/
The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/benson/
Latin American Film Archive
Global Speakers Service
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