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H-High-S  A member of the H-NET Humanities & Social Sciences On-Line initiative. H-HIGH-S encourages scholarly discussion of teaching high school history/social studies and makes available diverse bibliographical, research and teaching aids.

Outreach World  A comprehensive one-stop resource for teaching international and area studies and foreign languages in the precollegiate classroom.

Peace Corps World Wise Schools Education Resources  The Peace Corps site has lesson plans (3-5, 6-9, 10-12), teacher guides, and opportunities to have volunteer speakers come to the classroom.

Maps of Russia and the former Soviet Republics:

National Geographic Society's Map page

Rand McNally Education page
Russia and the Former Soviet Republics Maps (from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas at Austin)
Traveller's Yellow Pages -- Moscow
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Grant Opportunities

Grants Alert.com

 

Search Engines
ZapMe netspace  An excellent search engine for K-12 education in general.  This site has links to lesson plans and other resources for teachers.

 

Student Exchanges and Study Abroad

American Council of Teachers of Russian/American Council for Collaboration in Education and Language Study (ACTR/ACCELS)
Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE)

Professional Associations for Teachers

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)
American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL)  Has good links to other sites and resources - cyrillic fonts
American Council of Teachers of Russian/American Council for Collaboration in Education and Language Study (ACTR/ACCELS)
Committee on College and Pre-College Russian  CCPCR has provided the only annual nationwide census of pre-college Russian, which gathers names, addresses (now including phone, fax, e-mail) of schools and teachers, enrollments of students at each level, and text materials in use. Their web site also has relevant links.
Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program

Illinois Council for the Social Studies

National Council for History Education
National Council for the Social Studies

Resources for Sale
Choices for the 21st Century Education Project  Run by the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies at Brown University.  Has units for sale. For lesson plans and assessments, go to Resources, then Teaching Tools.

SPICE The Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education has units for sale, as well as some free lesson plans.  

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