Web Resources

Outreach World – www.outreachworld.org
This site was specifically created for teachers seeking information to teach about Africa, Asia, Canada, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and the Pacific Islands. The site includes lesson plans, lists of books that have received recent awards, opportunities for teachers to travel abroad, teacher accounts of recent travels and will soon include discussion about best practices. New opportunities to travel as well as lesson plans continue to be added to the website so please check back frequently.

Latin American Network Information Center – http://lanic.utexas.edu/index.html
“LANIC’s mission is to facilitate access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America. While many of our resources are designed to facilitate research and academic endeavors, our site has also become an important gateway to Latin America for primary and secondary school teachers and students, private and public sector professionals, and just about anyone looking for important information about this public region.”
After clicking to the site, select Education and Primary and Secondary Education.

Library of Congress Portal to the World – http://www.loc.gov/teachers
“Portals to the world contains selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world. They are arranged by country or area with the links for each sorted into a wide range of broad categories.”
After clicking on the link, choose International Resources and Portals.

RETANET – Resources for Teaching about the Americas – http://retanet.unm.edu
“This is a website for secondary educators with Latin America content for teaching and an on-line interactive learning community of teacher peers.”

UNESCO – http://www.portal.unesco.org/culture
The culture website contains a wide variety of information presented in an interactive setting with text and spectacular graphics and photographs.