Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program, 2010
Arts & Empowerment in Brazil
The following curriculum units were developed by educators who participated in a month-long seminar in Brazil. Target subjects and grade levels vary; please contact LLILAS Public Engagement if you have questions regarding how to best use these resources in your classroom.
Unless otherwise noted, all files are in Adobe PDF format.
Nicholas Brooks
Exploring Community and Personal Identity through Brazilian Art (Fine Arts; High School)
- Personal Identity (308KB)
Colleen Devine
Reflections on the Slave Trade and Impact on Latin American Culture (Humanities, Social Studies; Grade 6)
- Slave Trade (395KB)
- Images-Brazil (295KB) (also available as a ppt file - 750KB)
- Images-Haiti (2MB) (also available as a ppt file - 6MB)
María Luisa Echavarría
Social Empowerment through Non-Profit Arts Organizations in Brazil: Management Structure and Why It Matters (Introduction to Business Spanish, Business; Post-Secondary)
- Management Structure (812KB)
David Feranchak
Brazil: Order and Progress; A Project-Based Learning Unit (Theatre Arts; Grades 9-12)
- Order and Progress (1MB)
- Brazil (6MB) (also available as a ppt file - 16MB)
John Fernandez
Culture Close Up: Capoeira (Social Studies; Grades 6-8)
- Culture (3MB)
- Olhares Nomades
- History Capoeira
- Angola Birthplace
Chris Forney
Brazilian History and Culture (World History; High School, designed for AP)
- History and Culture (192KB)
- Brazil (5MB) (also available as a ppt file - 8MB)
Agustin Lara
A View of Brazil: The Culture and Geography (Social Studies, with Math and Language Arts links; Grades 4-6)
- View of Brazil (443KB)
Jeffrey Nichols
World Cup Congress 2018: Soccer as a "Microcosm" for Globalization (Social Studies, World Cultures; Grade 7)
- World Cup (383KB)
- Global Cities (11MB)
Elizabeth Ortiz
An Introduction to Brazil (Social Studies, Contemporary World Cultures; Grade 6)
- Introduction (283KB)
- Climate (720KB) (also available as a ppt file - 2MB)
Dianne Russo
Brazil: The Culture of Social Development (Foreign Language-Spanish, English, Social Studies, Art; Grades 9-12)
- Social Development (401KB)
- Photos (471KB) (also available as a ppt file - 1MB)
Mary K. Smith
Human Geography and Brazil: More than Samba and the Rain Forest (Social Studies, Contemporary World Cultures; Grade 6)
- Human Geography (143KB)
- More than Samba (3MB) (also available as a ppt file - 6MB)
Emily Van Wey
Brazilian Beat: A Past with Slavery, a Present with Problems, and a Future with Potential (Social Studies, Global Issues, Spanish; Grades 10-12)
- Brazilian Beat (933KB)
Alisa Warshay
Brazil in a (Brazil) Nutshell (Social Studies, Spanish; Middle or High School)
- Brazil Nutshell (189KB)
- Presentation (612KB) (also available as a pptx file - 3MB)
- Jeopardy (562KB) (also available as a pptx file - 1MB)
- Double Jeopardy (521KB) (also available as a pptx file - 1MB)
Dorothy Winburne
Understanding Brazil through Literature and Music (English/Language Arts; Grades 7-10)
- Understanding Brazil (1MB)