An Interdisciplinary Thematic Unit for the United States Virgin Islands
Each year more than 3 million people visit the US Virgin Islands but few realize it's historic and strategic importance to the United States. You or your students may have visited or plan to visit the Virgin Islands. This curriculum can be an important catalyst in helping turn a vacation into a true educational experience and a lifetime memory. We've designed the curriculum to not only meet core standards but to serve as a launch pad for additional related topics such as Financial Literacy, Indigenous Peoples, The Slave Trade and Linguistics.
A semester of both V.I. History and Caribbean History is mandatory for Virgin Islands 9th graders.
Where the largest African-American population resides in the United States.
FIND COLLABORATIVE CLASSROOM PROJECTS AND INTEGRATED, SUBJECT AREA STANDARDS, WITH CURATED CLASSROOM TOOLS
Help students in grades 2 - 12 increase their motivation for learning, while they explore multicultural relations in the United States. Integrate history through interdisciplinary studies, with the social structures for the Virgin Islands. Teach tolerance and understanding of other West Indian peoples through comparing and contrasting their methods and manner of living using folk studies, storytelling, and music, delivered by online curriculum. Use this information according to your students' grade level, and refer to either the Virgin Islands Standards or your own state's Core Curriculum Standards and Benchmarks.
The Caribbean was one of the earliest projects of European colonization in what we now call the "Atlantic World." Objectives of this curricula is to overcome the linguistic, political, and geographic fragmentation that has traditionally characterized the region through an multi cultural, interdisciplinary, thematic, collaborative online unit.
It is great that the Caribbean has received increased attention in recent years because of more awareness directed towards Atlantic and World History. They are in the Lesser Antilles 1,600 miles south, southeast of New York City; 1,100 miles east, southeast of Miami; 70 miles east of San Juan. St. Thomas and St. John lie between the Atlantic and the Caribbean. St. Croix, 40 miles south, is surrounded by the Caribbean.
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METHODOLOGY: When I started this project in 1976 I was living in St. Croix U.S.V.I.
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