Presents a teaching guide to accompany a forthcoming Mobil Showcase television series, "Between the Wars." The series chronicles events between the end of World War I and the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. The guide contains background information, discussion questions, and activities for each of the 16 programs in the series.…

Elementary teachers can use ham radios to involve students in live communications. Students can talk to and gather information about people and places throughout the world. (Author/RM)

Social studies educators hold an important key to our future success in the management of "spaceship earth." Students must be made aware of the global environment and the many problems facing it. These problems are discussed. (RM)

Changes in the scale of destructive power have fundamentally altered the nature of the threat to the security of nations and so demand a corresponding adjustment in our perceptions of the realm of peace and security affairs. There can be no national security without world security in the real world. (RM)

U.S.-Canadian and Mexican water-related issues testify to the role that natural resources/ environmental issues play in foreign policy and demonstrate how environmental problems can affect the public and private sectors of a nation internally. How people affect the environment is an irreducible bottom line for stable international trade and market…

Global Trends Workshops for secondary science and social studies teachers and supervisors conducted collaboratively by the Center for Environmental/Energy Education and the Tennessee Valley Authority's Environmental/Energy Education Program are described. The workshops helped teachers learn how to merge global trends with local concerns. (RM)

How elementary and secondary social studies teachers can use nature--plants, animals, habitats, and environments--to provide students with a global perspective is discussed. An interdisciplinary science, language arts, and social studies unit entitled "Microtrek Scavenger Hunt" for use in grades four through six is presented, and…

The teachers of second languages and the teachers of social studies share a weighty responsibility to help students move toward global understanding and multicultural awareness. Possible areas of cooperation between the two disciplines, as well as constraints, are discussed. (RM)

More than 22 million persons in the United States speak a non-English language at home. There is an ideology that associates non-English languages with foreignness, and often with poverty and inferiority. The background for this ideology, how it developed, and whether it is warranted are discussed. (RM)

What is meant by human rights is discussed, and the historical and economic reasons why Western and third world nations embrace different philosophies of international human rights are examined. (RM)

The ongoing debate about what constitutes a genocidal act is analyzed. Discussed is a humanistic definition of genocide, i.e., the wanton murder of a group of human beings on the basis of any identity whatsoever that they share--national, ethnic, racial, religious, political, geographical, or ideological. Examples of genocide are provided. (RM)

Recent estimates suggest that 40 percent of the people around the world do not enjoy basic civil liberties and human rights. Among indigenous people--sometimes called aboriginals, native peoples, or tribal peoples--this percentage is much greater. Why and how indigenous peoples continue to be victims of oppression is discussed. (RM)

The fate of the individual who is singled out for oppression is explored. Specific examples are provided. International organizations trying to keep the issue of human rights before the public are described. (RM)

Morality as an enduring element in United States foreign policy is discussed. In order to strengthen the steady purpose and responsible involvement of the American people, human rights policy must be presented in the context of a realistic assessment of world affairs. (RM)

The relationship between civil rights and human rights is clarified. It is inconsistent for the United States to espouse civil rights at home and support undemocratic, fascist, or communist governments abroad that violate human rights. We must insist that our government use its leverage in places like South Africa. (RM)