Learners explore the failures of the UN embargo on conflict diamonds from Sierra Leone. They participate in a trading game to explore the international trading system and the ways in which it rewards and punishes countries.

Students, in small cooperative groups, are introduced to a lesson concerning the controversy involved in using Native American names and images as sports mascots. They brainstorm mascot names and discuss the meaning behind each.

Students engage in a lesson plan that is designed to inform about the history of the "African" continent. The time period studied will cover from 5000 BC up to 1600 AD. This plan incorporates many of the topics and subtopics of the...