This social studies curriculum guide is designed to challenge academically talented middle school students, encourage them to acquire and use critical thinking skills, and recognize the importance of global awareness. Areas of study include Latin America and Canada for grade six, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia for grade seven, and U.S.…

Curriculum units on China have been selected and evaluated in this annotated bibliography for the teacher. Annotations give the author's background, the scope of the work, the teaching approach best utilized with the unit, and an evaluation of the unit. A final criterion used in the annotation is the section which gives the unit's outstanding…

The music of the peoples who inhabit either Central Asia or the Volga-Ural region of Asia is explored in this document, which provides information that can be incorporated into secondary or higher education courses. The Central Asian music cultures of the Kirghiz, Kazakhs, Turkmens, Karakalpaks, Uighurs, Tajiks, and Uzbeks are described and…