Lesson Plans

CREECA Workshop Lesson Plans

CREECA programs place particular emphasis on curriculum development and ongoing training of teachers at the K-12 and post-secondary level. For the past decade, CREECA has offered intensive, week-long workshops on the UW-Madison campus that allow elementary and secondary school teachers to study international topics in depth while developing standards-based lessons for their classrooms.

The annual CREECA workshops have two main goals. First, the workshops are designed to provide teachers with meaningful content about various topics in our regions. Second, teachers are required to incorporate learned material into standards-based curricular modules centered on the workshop's theme. A representative sample of the participants' lesson plans are presented below. The diversity of the curricular modules in grade level, topic, and length illustrates the diversity of the group as a whole, as the workshop brought together from around the state of Wisconsin educators in grades 7-12 who teach subjects ranging from English as a Second Language to Social Studies and Psychology.

In the curricular modules, the rubric "Standards" refers to the Wisconsin Model Academic Standards as listed on the website of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI): http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/standards/

Other than some minor copy editing, the modules are in the form presented by the teachers and the views expressed are those of the individual authors. Likewise, the content remains the property of the individual authors.

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Environmental Problems and Politics in Europe and Asia

Files are in Microsoft Word or Microsoft Powerpoint formats, denoted after the link.

European Union

Human Rights

Chernobyl

Folklore

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