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Border Studies Curriculum
Produced by
Jeff Barnet
An integrated curriculum unit of twenty online lessons focusing on the US-Mexico borderlands.
The New Mexico State University Center for Latin American and Border Studies, with a grant from the federal Title VI program, has developed an integrated curriculum unit focusing on the US-Mexico borderlands. The twenty online lessons are aimed primarily at a high school audience, for use as an adjunct in the study of US history, border state history, or world history. However, the lessons can also be adapted for middle school classrooms.
The Border Studies Curriculum (BSC) is ready-to-use in that the materials necessary to teach the lessons are almost entirely contained in the lessons as written. Although the BSC makes extensive use of the Center's Frontera NorteSur (FNS) news website, which has been covering the US-Mexico border and in particular the Paso del Norte region online since 1996, the teacher will find that other than downloading a few Internet items most lessons are ready-to-go with just a few common materials readily available in the classroom. The decision was made not to rely on books or outside resources due to the realities of public school budgets. However, for some lessons, books and other outside resources are recommended in case the teacher is interested in pursuing the subject more thoroughly.
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