Sunday, 25 January 2009

great resource for all sorts

The Shakespeare resources are but a small taste of what's available here

University of Houston Teachers Institute

http://hti.math.uh.edu/curriculum/units/index.php

examples follow


CURRICULUM UNITS

2008
One Cell to Many: The Dynamics of Life
Great Films and How They Shaped American Politics
African History: Ancient Times to the Atlantic Slave Trade Era
Real Wor(l)d Problems
Everyday Physics: The Way the World Works
Comedy in Literature: Greece to Hollywood
What Does It Mean to be an American? : Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States

2007
Playwriting: Crafting and Adapting Plays for School-Aged Children
World Mythologies
Pre-Columbian Mathematics
Popular Music: A Window to Our Students' Cultures
Weather and Climate Change
Wetland Ecology

2006
Reading the City: Houston in Fiction and Non-Fiction
Exploring the Literary Landscape
Ethics: Science, Philosophy, and the Self
Health Care Law, Policy and Ethics: Understanding American Health Care
The World the Immigrants Made
Photography: Steps Toward Visual Literacy
Creative Writing in the Schools
Probability and Statistics in Everyday Life

2005
Art and Society: How People and Cultures Define and Value the Arts
Structural Engineering: Buildings and Bridges
Chemistry through the Ages: From Alchemy to Molecular Design
Living with Geologic HazardsHealth, Illness, and Medicine in Houston: A Cross-Cultural Exploration
Health, Illness, and Medicine in Houston: A Cross-Cultural Exploration
Latin America Before the Spanish: Pre-Columbian Art, History and Culture
The Medieval World: Life, Thought, Action
Perspectives on the Presidency
Shakespeare and Film

2004
America at War
Beyond Houston: The Literature of Travel and Exploration
Exciting Experiments and the Ethics of Experimentation
Eye On America: Playwrights and American Life and Times
George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber and the American Century
Hands-on Geometry: How We Can Use Geometry to See the World Around Us
The New Houston: New Immigrants, New Ethnicities, and New Inter-Group Relations in American's Fourth-Largest City
The Process of Justice: How American Courts Work from Top to Bottom
Wild Habitats in the Urban Landscape

2003
African American Slavery in the New World: A Different Voice
From FDR's Death to the Resignation of Nixon: America from 1945 to 1974
Heroes and Heroines in History and Imaginative Literature
Literature as Healing Balm: Multicultural Women Writers in America
The Science in Science Fiction
"There's No Place Like Home": Architecture, Technology, Art, and the Culture of the American Home, 1850-1970
The Twentieth Century's Most Significant English-Language Novels for Children and Young Adultsc
Understanding the Wild Things Next Door: The Nature of Houston

2002
Drinking Water: Finding it; Making it Clean; Using it Wisely
Ethnic Music and Performing Arts in Houston
Houston Architecture: Interpreting the City
New Developments in Understanding the Human Body
Reflections on a Few Good Books
Shakespeare's Characters: The Lighter Side
Sports Autobiographies: Mirrors of American Culture

2001
Figuring the Odds: Learning to Live with Life's Uncertanties
Film and American Values Over the Decades
Multicultural Works: The Richness of the Drama of America
Shakespeare Alive!
World Order: What Current Events Tell Us About World Politics

2000
Adolescence and Alienation
Articulating the Creative Experience
Global Warming, Air Pollution, and Great Storms
Immigration and Latinos in the United States
Critical Analysis of Graeco-Roman Myths and Related Contemporary Issues
Jazz History: The Art and its Social Roots

1999
Addressing Evil
Technology and the Discipline of Chemistry
Hollywood Distortions of History
The History, Economic Base, and Politics of Houston
Symmetry, Patterns, and Designs
The United States in the 1960s

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