1. Abuela's Weave

By Omar Castaneda, illustrated by Enrique O. Sanchez (Lee & Low Books, 1993)

2. Celebrate in Central America

By Joe Viesti and Diane Hall, photographs by Joe Viesti (Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, 1997)

3. Central America

Primary, Intermediate and Secondary Lessons on Central America.

4. Human Rights in Latin America

Resources on death squads

5. Imagining Isabel

By Omar S. Castaneda (Lodestar Books, 1994)

6. Journey of the Nightly Jaguar

By Burton Albert, illustrated by Robert Roth (Atheneum, 1996)

7. LASP Video Lending Library

The video lending library of Cornell University's Latin American Studies Program.

8. Latin America in Cyberspace

A metasite of filtered website materials.

9. Latin America Overview

An annotated set of mostly weblinks to key Latin American reference materials.

10. Mama and Papa Have a Store

By Amelia Lau Carling (Dial, 1998)

11. Political Database of the Americas

Provides contemporary political and institutional information about the 35 countries of the Western Hemisphere.

12. RETANET

Resources for Teaching about the Americas

13. Salsa Stories

By Lulu Delacre (Scholastic, 2000)

14. Semana Santa

Holy Week in Antigua

15. Using the Movie 'Apocalypto' as a Teaching Tool

In Spring 2007 the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University hosted a lecture series for social studies teachers in the DC area. The series focused on integrating topics from Latin America into the classroom and provided ideas, resources, and curriculum samples for instructors. In this particular lecture, historian Erick Langer analyzed the controversial Mel Gibson film 'Apoca