REECAS Resources for Educators

• Curricular Material
• Films and Documentaries

Resources on the Silk Road and Central Asia:

• Curricular Materials in the Ellison Center's Outreach Collection
• Internet Resources
  
• A Guide to Curriculum Materials prepared by UW professor Daniel Waugh
• Ilkhom Theatre Company Sharing a Vision: Tashkent to Seattle

Center for History and New Media: George Mason University

• Making the History of 1989
• Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives

On-line teaching materials for teachers of grades K-9:     

• Constructing Small-Scale Yurts
• Songs from Kyrgyzstan
• Russia's Sakhalin Island: When Oil, Nature and Politics Collide
• Return of a Super Power: How History Can Help Us Understand the Role of Energy in Russian Foreign Policy Today
• Trying to See the Light: Georgia's Struggle Through Post-Soviet Transition

Listed below are some web resources that may be of interest to teachers:

Additional related materials are available for use from the Curriculum Division of the UW Libraries.

Jackson School Outreach Centers Website and calendar of events offering clock hours

Links to other REECAS-related Outreach Centers across the country and UW departments.

An electronic listserv, REECAS-NW, with information on Seattle-area events and programs, visitors and other information about the former USSR and Eastern Europe.

Keypals Resources: A guide to establishing E-Mail connections between classrooms in the U.S. and those in REECAS countries.

Outreachworld.org is a federally-funded site with on-line teaching materials for every region of the world.