"Understanding Mexican Youth Today: Twentieth Century to Present"
Lesson Plans about Mexico
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson234.shtml
Gives an index of lesson plans for grades Pre-K-12 with a wide variety of activities drawn from many academic subjects.
http://www.questconnect.org/mexico_lessonplans.htm
Provides many links to topics ranging from Mexican geography to holidays for K-12.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/96/mexico/learn/age02.html
Invites teachers to look at Discovering Mexico from a geographer’s point of view; K-12.
http://countrystudies.us/mexico/
Contains the on-line versions of books related to a large variety of topics regarding Mexico previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html
Site of the World Fact Book published by the CIA; provides information on history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues.
http://atozteacherstuff.com/Themes/Mexico/
A teacher-created site designed with many links to Mexico related topics.
http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0212302/mexico.html
Contains articles written by fourth and fifth-graders describing life in other countries.
http://www.cis.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1997/1/97.01.04.x.html#a
From the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, lesson plans explore several aspects of Mexican culture including the Spanish language, food, and literature.
http://fga.freac.fsu.edu/resources/academy/k1mexico.htm#activity1
Provides a mini-unit on many aspects of Mexican culture for K-1 students.
http://www.washpost.com/nielessonplans.nsf/0/4F5CAB0822828A79852575B30057A3F7/$File/MexicoFacesChallenges.pdf
Designed for middle and high school students by the Washington Post as an integrated curriculum that includes recent articles on the A/H1N1 virus and drug violence.
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/lessonplan.jsp?id=67
Celebrates La Posada using maps, a story, a craft project, and acting.
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/Files/mexico.htm
Contains many arts and craft ideas for Mexico for a range of ages.
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/mexicanholidays/
Offers many ideas for celebrating Mexican holidays in grades 6-8.
http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/view/page.basic/country/content.country/mexico_15/en
Explores Mexican music and art; includes music selections.
http://www.scholastic.com/dreamincolor/latinoheritage/
“Dream in Color” collaborates with the Smithsonian Institution to use art as a means of examining Latino culture; categorized by grade level.
Mexican Youth Culture and Education
http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x3491.xml
Examines cultural differences between Mexican students and expectations in schools in the US.
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/4486
Discusses some of the cultural background of Mexican students entering US schools.
http://www.ericdigests.org/2003-4/mexico.html
Gives a brief overview of Mexico’s educational system.
http://books.google.com/books?id=8SdZxQfIsLgC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false
Contains part of the book The Role of Peers in the Schooling of US Mexican Youth.
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/resources/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=27
Explores the importance of teaching Mexican-American history and culture in US schools.
http://www.ael.org/digests/edorc02-13.pdf
Provides suggestions on teaching Mexican immigrant students.
http://www.ael.org/digests/edorc02-13.pdf
An in-depth study of a Quinceanera, a girl’s fifteenth birthday celebration, that gives good insight into the role of gender and family in Mexican culture.
http://brownvboard.org/brwnqurt/05-3/05-3i.htm
Encourages students to reflect upon the changes occurring within their own community, including migration and immigration to the area, focusing on identity, economics and politics.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/19990920monday.html?searchpv=learning_lessons
Explores the notion of culture and the influence of Latino culture on the US
Videos
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/places/countries-places/mexico/
Contains short videos from National Geographic showing various aspects of life in Mexico.
http://kellogg.nd.edu/outreach/vinventory.shtml
The Kellogg Institute for International Studies has an extensive collection of videos on Latin America and Africa, available free of charge to South Bend area schools.
Kellogg Institute’s Traveling Trunks of Latin America
http://kellogg.nd.edu/outreach/trunks.shtml
K-12 teachers can find a “treasure chest” of appropriate materials for helping students learn about the diverse cultures of Latin America through the Kellogg Institute’s Traveling Trunks of Latin America. These trunks are provided to area teachers free of charge.
Notre Dame Faculty Resources
Edward Beatty (PhD, Stanford University, 1996)
574-631-7038
email: ebeatty@nd.edu
http://history.nd.edu/people/all/beatty-ted/
Mexican economy; political basis of industrialization in Mexico; technology studies; comparative socioeconomic development.
Allert Brown-Gort (MA, University of Texas at Austin, 1998)
574-631-3787
email: abrowngo@nd.edu
http://latinostudies.nd.edu/people/
Role of culture in shaping values and political systems; civil service reform; political views of Mexican nationals in the United States.
Jorge A. Bustamante (PhD, University of Notre Dame, 1975)
574-631-3820
email: jbustama@nd.edu
http://sociology.nd.edu/faculty/all/bustamante-jorge/index.shtml
International migration; border settlements; Mexico-US migration.
Gilberto Cárdenas (PhD, University of Notre Dame, 1977)
574-631-3819
email: gcardena@nd.edu
http://sociology.nd.edu/faculty/all/cardenas-gil/index.shtml
International migration; border studies; links between Latino communities in the United States and countries of origin, art and politics.
Rev. Virgilio Elizondo (PhD, Institut Catholique de Paris, 1978)
574-631-7654
email: elizondo.2@nd.edu
http://theology.nd.edu/people/all/elizondo-virgilio/index.shtml
Mestizo Christianity; mestizaje theology; liberation theology; evangelization; faith and spirituality; culture and public ritual.
Daniel G. Groody, CSC (PhD, Theological Union, 2000)
574-631-3233
email: dgroody@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~dgroody/
Migration and the US-Mexican Border
Kristine Ibsen (PhD, University of California at Los Angeles, 1991)
574-631-7563
email: ibsen@nd.edu
http://romancelanguages.nd.edu/people/ibsen-kristine/
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century historical narrative; women in colonial Spanish America; feminist studies.
Jaime Pensado (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2008)
574-631-1538
email: jpensado@nd.edu
http://al.nd.edu/resources-for/faculty-and-staff/faculty-list/bio/jpensado/
Contemporary Mexican history; student movements; youth culture; the Cold War.
Karen Richman (PhD, University of Virginia, 1992)
574-631-8146
email: krichman@nd.edu
http://latinostudies.nd.edu/people/directors.php
Religion, migration, transnationalism, performance, gender, production and consumption.
Juan M. Rivera (PhD, University of Illinois, 1975)
574-631-5195
email: jrivera@nd.edu
web2.business.nd.edu/Faculty/faculty_bio_page.cfm?who=jrivera
International accounting; foreign exchange transactions; foreign reporting and disclosures; agribusiness and development; NAFTA.
Jaime Ros (Diploma in Economics, University of Cambridge, 1978)
574-631-7009
email: ros@nd.edu
www.nd.edu/~econplcy/faculty_staff/ros.html
Development economics; trade and macroeconomic policies and problems in developing countries.
Vania Smith-Oka (PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago)
574-631-7269
email: vsmithok@nd.edu
http://anthropology.nd.edu/faculty-staff/smith-oka_vania/index.shtml
Globalization; reproductive health; indigenous women's knowledge; ethnobotany; formal and informal health systems.
Juan Vitulli (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University)
574-631-7129
email: jvitulli@nd.edu
http://romancelanguages.nd.edu/people/vitulli-juan/
Baroque culture; literatures and ideologies; transatlantic studies; national identities; canon formation; the notion of “Criollo” as a floating signifier in Latin America.
