Resources are divided by topic/subject area below, with topics listed in alphabetical order.

Agriculture

• Agriculture
• Cornell-Peru: Project VICOS Agro-biodiversity in Vicos: growing crops in an animated world.

Art / Architecture

• Latin American Art, Encyclopedia Britanica

• Latin American art: an introduction, Smarthistory

• Art and Identity in Mexico, from the Olmec to Modern Times - Yale-New Havens Teachers Institute, 1999, Volume II
  This curriculum unit consists of seven volumes that range from Maya and Aztec art and culture to new understandings of the works of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. In every section, hands-on projects play a key role: students can learn to make a work of modern Mexican folk art or play the rudiments of Mesoamerican music. For various grades.
• The Urban Architectural Heritage of Latin America
• Latin American Architecture
• Culture in Art - The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo
• Latin American Design and Architecture Through the Years
• Latin American Art and Architecture
• Conference: Learning from/in Latin America
• Latin American Architecture Today
• Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980
• MoMA's largest-ever Latin American architecture exhibition

Carnival

• Carnival Celebrations: Masks. Smithsonian Education
• Carnival Mask | Smithsonian's History Explorer
• Carnival "A Celebration of Life's Pleasures." LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies & Collections, The University of Texas
• Carnival, by Vanderbilt CLAS
• The Origins of Carnival, and the Special Traditions of Dominical Carnaval- CIEE
• Creole Carnival - Cal Performances
• Masks of Latin America - Latin American & Iberian Institute - UNM
• Carnival Masks of the Dominican Republic. Ivan Erickson

Culture and Traditions

• Folklore, Latin American Traditional Celebrations. LANIC
• South American National Holidays
• Celebraciones. The History Channel
• Society and Culture in Latin America
• Hispanic Cultures of the Americas. Summer Institute: Teaching Resources
• Explore-Hispanic-Culture.com is your guide to learning about and understanding the Hispanic Culture.
  • Hispanic Culture
  • Hispanic Holidays
  • Hispanic Traditions
  • Las Mañanitas
  • Spanish Songs

Day of the Dead / Dia de los Muertos

• Day of the Dead
• Smithsonian Latino Center
  • • Dia de los Muertos Fact Sheet
    • Dia de los Muertos Lesson Plan K-2
    • Dia de los Muertos Lesson plan 6-8
    • Calaveras on Wheels: Lesson Plan by Nancy Green. © 2010
    • The Taking of the Renwick: The Celebration of the Day of the Dead and the Latino Community in Washington, D. C. by Olivia Cadaval Source: Journal of Folklore Research, Vol. 22, No. 2/3, Folklore and Semiotics (May 1985), pp. 179-193 Published by: Indiana University Press.
    • The Day of the Dead as an Art Form: The Day of the Dead Enters the U.S. Museum, Gallery and Cultural Center by Olga Ulloa Herrera © October 2009
    • Embracing Tradition: Bringing the Dead into Our Lives by Maria Miranda Maloney © October 2009
    • Calavera to Ana Santa by Maria Miranda Maloney © October 2009
    • A User's Guide to the Day of the Dead
    • Dia de los Muertos Resources
    • Dia de los Muertos additional Reading List

Economics

• Economics and International Trade
• The Mercados Project. Street Plans Collaborative. This project investigates 20 markets of various types in cities large and small across 5 countries in South America. This report is intended to broaden understanding of how these markets operate and draw inspiration for North American cities experiencing their own market revival.http://issuu.com/streetplanscollaborative/docs/mercados-final-sm

Food

• International Potato Center (CIP)
  The International Potato Center seeks to reduce poverty and achieve food security on a sustained basis in developing countries through scientific research and related activities on potato, sweet potato, and other root and tuber crops and on the improved management of natural resources in the Andes and other mountain areas.
• Latin American Food, Recipes and Nutrition: http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/food
• Maize for the Gods Unearthing the 9,000-Year History of Corn. University of California Press
• Native American foods: History, culture, and influence on modern diets. Journal of Ethnic Foods
• A Brief History of Chocolate. Smithsonian.com.
• Child Labor and Slavery in the Chocolate Industry. The Food Empowerment Project.
• Chocolate-Making Conch. The National Museum of American History.
• Chocolate Use in Early Aztec Cultures. International Cocoa Association.
• History of Chocolate: Chocolate in the Colonies. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
• What We Know About the Earliest History of Chocolate. Smithsonian.com
• Food History - Latin American Studies - Oxford Bibliographies
• Pre‐historic eating patterns in Latin America and protective effects of plant‐based diets on cardiovascular risk factors
• Taste, Smell, and Flavor in Mexico - Oxford Research Encyclopedias
• Traditional Mexican Cuisine: Ancestral, Ongoing Community Culture, the Michoacán Paradigm. UNESCO
• “For High Schoolers, an Interdisciplinary Food Curriculum Grows Nationwide”
• Food Studies for High School Teaching Resources
• “Five Food Trends that are changing Latin America”
• “Latin American Food” (Resources for K-12)
• “Latin American Cuisines by Region”
• The Influence of Latin Food in the World”
• “Latin America Food Culture” (Video)
• “10 Latinx Children’s Books on Food as Culture andHeritage"
• Native Foods of Latin America. Resources UI Library

Geography

• Latin America Maps

Hispanic Heritage

• Hispanic Heritage Month recommended Reading list, Florida Department of Education: http://www.justreadfamilies.org/Reading/HHM.asp
  • Elementary (K-Grade 2)
  • Elementary (3–5)
  • Middle School (6–8)
  • High School (9–12)
  • Adult Reading
• Hispanic Heritage Month, The Library of Congress
  • Audio/Video presentations: http://hispanicheritagemonth.gov/audio/
  • For Teachers: https://www.hispanicheritagemonth.gov/for-teachers/

History

• The Incas and their Descendants
• When Worlds Collide: The Untold History of the Americas After Columbus - PBS
  • Lesson Plans for Educators: http://www.pbs.org/kcet/when-worlds-collide/education/
  • Watch Video: http://www.pbs.org/kcet/when-worlds-collide/video/

Latin American Immigration and Migration

• Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) Resources:
  • Regional Resources
    • General - Caribbean
  • Country Resources
    • Argentina - Brazil - Costa Rica - Guyana - Mexico - Nicaragua - United States Government
  • International Resources
    • Academic Research Resources - Education - Health - Human Rights & Social Assistance - Immigration Services - Labor - Law and Policy - Organizations - Portals - Publications & Documentaries
• International Organization for Migrations (OIM/ IOM)
  • New Migration Profile Now Available: “Migration Panorama for South America
    • Migrants as Agents for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
    • Más trabajadores migran dentro de Latinoamérica. El Pais, March 2012 (Spanish)
    • Migrants' New Paths Reshaping Latin America. The New York Times, Jan. 14, 2012
    • Nuevos caminos de migrantes dan nueva forma a LA. The New York Times, Jan. 14, 2012
    • Latin American & the Caribbiean Migration and Immigration
    • Latin American Immigration to Southern Europe
    • Nuevos patrones de la migración irregular, según la OIM
    • Why Do People Move? Migration from Latin America. SPICE Publication, Stanford University
      This curriculum unit for middle and high school looks to give students tools to look beyond immediate circumstances and gain insights into the historical process of migration and promote an understanding of the reasons people have for leaving their community or country by presenting studies of six countries in Latin America: Mexico, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti and Cuba.
    • El mapa migratorio de América Latina y el Caribe, las mujeres y el géner (CEPAL)
    • El mapa migratorio internacional de América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL)
    • Geografía migratoria intrarregional de América Latina y el Caribe al comienzo del siglo XXI. J.Martinez, D. Vono, Revista de Geografía Norte Grande, 34: 39-52 (2005)
    • Panorama actual de las migraciones en América Latina. Alejandro I. Canales (2006)
    • Informe sobre Desarrollo Humano 2009 Superando barreras: Movilidad y desarrollo humanos. Publicado para el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD)
    • The New Americans: Immigration Myths & Realities Quiz: PBS
    • Understanding Migration Curriculum Resources for the Classroom. Hemispheres - The International Outreach Consortium at the University of Texas at Austin, Dec. 2011
    • CLAS Ohio State University Resources for Teaching About Migration:
      • Organizations
      • Online Media Resources
      • Books
      • Documentaries
      • Lesson Plans
    • Latin American Immigration In Editorial Cartoons - Lesson Plan (Free Registration required)
    • Approaches to Understanding Current US/Mexican Immigration Issues - Kellogg Institute
    • The City / La Ciudad - PBS (Film) - Lesson Plan
    • The New Faces (Film) - Lesson Plans
    • Remaking America: Contemporary U.S. Immigration - Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
      The 11 curriculum units in this volume contain four elements: objectives, teaching strategies, sample lessons and classroom activities, and lists of resources for teachers and students.
    • Latin America: Our Neighbors at Home and to the South - Lesson plans especially designed to assist fifth-grade instructors in teaching about Latin America, this 10-week topical unit includes lesson plans and activities.
    • Understanding Migration: Curriculum Resources for the Classroom - Hemispheres: The International Outreach Consortium, University of Texas.
    • Immigration: Stories of Yesterday and Today(Scholastics) - Encompasses material appropriate for a number of grades. Most activities can be used with students between grades 3 to 8. However, some activities feature content that is appropriate for younger grades.

    • Immigration Direct. Schools Begin Offering Aid to Undocumented Immigrants: http://www.immigrationdirect.com/blog/2015/03/schools-begin-offering-aid-to-undocumented-immigrants

Music

• Music from Mexico : The Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings - The Arhoolie Foundation's Strachwitz Frontera Collection of commercially produced Mexican and Mexican-American recordings (the Frontera Collection) is the largest repository of Mexican and Mexican-American vernacular recordings in existence.

Politics

• Politics

Religion

• Religion

Sports

• Sport in Latin American and the Caribbean

Urbanism in Latin America and the Caribbean

• Cities and Urbanization in Latin America
• Latin American Urbanism Symposium: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/latinamericanurbanism/
  • http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/latinamericanurbanism/2014/schedule/2/
  • http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/latinamericanurbanism/2014/schedule/9/
  • http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/latinamericanurbanism/2014/schedule/4/
  • http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/latinamericanurbanism/2014/schedule/8/
  • http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/latinamericanurbanism/2014/schedule/3/
• Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture:  http://www.uncubemagazine.com/blog/14820393; http://www.versobooks.com/books/1646-radical-cities;

• Spatial Planning in Latin America: https://planninglatinamerica.wordpress.com/tag/social-urbanism/ ; https://planninglatinamerica.wordpress.com/ ;
• Overpopulation, overconsumption – in pictures : http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/gallery/2015/apr/01/over-population-over-consumption-in-pictures
  • Mexico City: http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/gallery/2015/apr/01/over-population-over-consumption-in-pictures#img-1
  • Feedlot Industrial livestock production in Brazil: http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/gallery/2015/apr/01/over-population-over-consumption-in-pictures#img-3
  • Cows and smoke- Ground zero in the war on nature – cattle graze among the burning Amazon jungle in Brazil: http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/gallery/2015/apr/01/over-population-over-consumption-in-pictures#img-9
  • Hill-side slum: Slum-dwelling residents of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, face bleak living conditions in the western hemisphere’s poorest country: http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/gallery/2015/apr/01/over-population-over-consumption-in-pictures#img-12
• New Urbanism around Latin America: https://www.cnu.org/presentations/2007/new-urbanism-latin-america: https://www.cnu.org/sites/www.cnu.org/files/castillo.pdf
• Sao Paulo, The Monster City of Latin America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GBh1Gr1DRc
• Brodwyn Fischer on Creating New Narratives: Urban Poverty in Latin America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8CV3G7YOh4
• Urbanization in the Amazon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqdYcOtVqBE
• The Urban Architectural Heritage of Latin America: http://www.icomos.org/en/what-we-do/disseminating-knowledge/publicationall/monographic-series/116-english-categories/resources/publications/232-the-urban-architectural-heritage-of-latin-america
• Urban Heritage in South America: http://www.wmf.org/sites/default/files/wmf_publication/SouthAmerConf%202002%20abstract%20ENGLISH_0.pdf
• Planes parciales, gestión asociada y mecanismos de distribución equitativa de cargas y beneficios en el sistema urbanístico colombiano. Marco jurídico, conceptos básicos y alternativas de aplicación: http://www.institutodeestudiosurbanos.info/dmdocuments/cendocieu/1_Docencia/Profesores/Maldonado_Maria_Mercedes/Publicados/Planes_Parciales-Maria_Mercedes_Maldonado.pdf
• Latinoamérica: países abiertos, ciudades cerradas: http://www.unesco.org/most/ciudad_book.htm
• Instituto Latinoamericano de Urbanismo Sustentable – ILAUS: https://www.linkedin.com/company/instituto-latinoamericano-de-urbanismo-sustentable---ilaus
• La ciudad construida. Urbanismo en América Latina: http://works.bepress.com/fernando_carrion/108/ ; http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1107&context=fernando_carrion

• Informal Urbanism in Latin America: http://www.umabroad.umn.edu/programs/americas/informal-urbanism/about

• Latin America’s New Superstar: How Gritty, Crime-Ridden Medellín Became a Model for 21st-Century Urbanism: http://nextcity.org/features/view/medellins-eternal-spring-social-urbanism-transforms-latin-america

• Productivity in Latin America. City limits :http://www.economist.com/node/21525915
• Urbanization and the evolution of cities across 10,000 years – Kite: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/urbanization-and-the-future-of-cities-vance-kite
• Out My Window: http://outmywindow.nfb.ca/#/outmywindow
• Stress and the city: Urban decay:http://www.nature.com/news/stress-and-the-city-urban-decay-1.115
• Building globally competitive cities: The key to Latin American growth: http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/urbanization/building_competitive_cities_key_to_latin_american_growth
• Mapping Global Urbanization: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geobee/study-corner/activity-15/
• Urbanization in Latin America:http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/publications/articles/urbanization-in-latin-america
• 'Latino Urbanism' influences a Los Angeles in flux: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-latino-immigration-architecture-20141206-story.html#page=1
• South American cities: Securing an Urban Future: http://lsecities.net/publications/conference-newspapers/south-american-cities-securing-an-urban-future/
• South America: urban life in South America: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/555844/South-America/images-videos/121123/south-america-urban-life-in-south-america

• A tale of three cities: Urban renovation in Latin America :http://www.iadb.org/en/news/webstories/2009-06-11/a-tale-of-three-cities-urban-renovation-in-latin-america,5459.html

• Plan Malden Square: http://www.cityofmalden.org/content/plan-malden-square

• The South America Project (SAP): http://www.sap-network.org/

• Red State, Blue City: How the Urban-Rural Divide Is Splitting America: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/red-state-blue-city-how-the-urban-rural-divide-is-splitting-america/265686/

• Espacio urbano y riesgo de desastres: la expansión de las urbanizaciones cerradas sobre áreas inundablesde Tigre (Argentina)

• The Caribbean’s Hidden City: http://caribjournal.com/2015/05/03/the-caribbeans-hidden-city/#

• Emerging from Dystopia: Latin America's Latest Lessons
• Lessons from the spread of Bus Rapid Transit in Latin America

• Mobility in Medellín:  Urban Transformation through Imagination, Collaboration, and Strategic Intervention: http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/dpu/publications/dpu/latest/publications/newsletters/55.pdf