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Writing Women In

Writing Women In (download PDF file; 1 minute @28.8 bps)

Paula Sincero and Christine Woyshner, authors

Students learn about the diverse contributions of lesser-known local and national women who have helped shape US and world history.

(grades 3-5)

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Peace It Together: Strategies for Violence Prevention (see sample)

Paula Sincero, author

Three-time, national-award-winning teen violence prevention series and Web site

(grades 9-12)

Gerda Weissmann Klein, 1940

Memories, Voices & Choices: Lessons Learned from the Holocaust and Global Genocides ~ A Tolerance Curriculum

Paula Sincero, author

This two-time-Emmy-award-winning project examines the history of the Holocaust through living testimony; it educates students about the factors in society that lead to racial hatred and global genocide today.

(grades 5-8; 9-12)

Kid Central™ and Classroom Activities™

interactive activities developed by Paula Sincero

Developed interactive student, parent and teacher Web activities and technology resources for Cyber Schoolhouse Web site; managed site

(grades K-6)

kNOw Hunger: A Curriculm to Help End Hunger in Our Nation

in PDF and online formats

Center on Hunger and Poverty, Brandeis University; Paula Sincero, author

kNOw Hunger is designed to inspire you and your students to channel your energy, compassion and knowledge into action that will help eliminate hunger in our nation. Each unit explores a different aspect of hunger in America. As students work through each of the units, they acquire another piece of the "hunger puzzle," equipping them with the knowledge and understanding to take action steps for developing a culminating class anti-hunger action plan.

(grades 5-8; 9-12)

Wake Up, Sun! (download PDF file; less than 1 minute @ 28.8 bps)
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Paula Sincero and Judith Black, authors

Learn about what our ancestors from Sweden to Italy to Iran have done to wake up the sun and about Winter Solstice rituals today.

(grades K-2)

Rocky Times: Real Life in the Stone Age

(download PDF file; 1-2 minutes @ 28.8 bps)
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Paula Sincero and Roxanne Reddington-Wilde, authors

In this inquiry-based exploration, students challenge preconceptions, uncover evidence and create their own hypotheses about life in the Stone Age.

(grades 5-8)

On-line Curricula

Educational Web Sites

kNOw Hunger: A Curriculum to Help End Hunger

* Peace It Together Community Center*

Simon & Schuster Cyber Schoolhouse™

Creating Spaces for Learning, Boston Children's Museum

Feinstein Youth Hunger Brigade Community Service Curriculum (download PDF version)

* Flying into the Millennium: 2000 Flags*

* Echanges: La vie quotidienne d' adolescents*

* Los caminos: Diego Rivera y el muralismo*

* NOTE*: These sites have been removed from the server as MCET is no longer operational. I located them at an archival website, but results are mixed; graphics files for several of the sites were not archived. This will give you only the basic idea in terms of content.

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Dig This: Help Solve an Ancient Mystery! interactive archaeological dig activity

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I used Shockwave to create this; kids use critical thinking to uncover, research and write about ancient vessels and hypothesize about the civilizations that made them.

(grades 5-8)

Los Caminos (in Spanish) (download PDF files; less than 1 minute each)

El Bosque lluvioso de Costa Rica

La sazón latinoamericana
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Paula Sincero, author
© MCET

This series explores the art, history, social and political issues of "el mundo hispano" from Latin America to the United States; students interact with native speakers and their peers; sessions are conducted entirely in Spanish.

(grades 9-12)

Echanges (in French) (download PDF file; 2-3 minutes @ 28.8 bps)
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Indochine Marcel LaVergne and Paula Sincero, authors

This series brings current topics in francophone language and culture to your classroom; students interact with native speakers and their peers; sessions are conducted entirely in French.

(grades 9-12)

History Is In the Making: Preserving and Interpreting Community Stories

(see curriculum excerpt)

Paula Sincero and Cynthia Cohen, authors

Uncovering, telling, eliciting, interpreting and shaping stories preserves local history and imparts the skills involved in relating respectfully across differences. Students create their own community based oral history projects

(grades 5-8)

World Explorer Internet Activities

activity samples

developed by Paula Sincero

Repurposed existing Web sites to develop 100+ original on-line and off-line activities for leading middle school world history program.

(grades 5-8)

excerpt from Images, Get the Word Out!

excerpt from Images, Deep Down Underground

Paula Sincero, book concept and editor

From science to social studies, Images provides a rich variety of theme-related reading— fiction, nonfiction (expository and narrative) and poetry. Designed in a kid-friendly magazine format, every Images theme unit is packed with reading selections and cross-curricular theme-related activities. Big Questions provide a framework to focus classroom discussion, and a final project helps synthesize students' discoveries.

(grade 4)

Bibliotecas en español/Libraries in Spanish Teacher's Guide

sample of lesson plans

Paula Sincero, teacher guide prototype and senior editor

The Libraries in Spanish are a rich collection of 144 of the best children's books in Spanish from Latin America, Spain and the US. Each grade level library of 24 books connects thematically to Heath Literacy. Comprehensive teachers guides provide solid instructional strategies with a proven record of success in bilingual classrooms.

(grades 1-6)