The Teachers' Corner provides lesson plans, videos, and other resources for K-14 educators to use in their classrooms. The European Union Center is grateful to the educators who have shared their materials to be made publicly available.
When using the following materials, please give proper attribution to the educators who created them.
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This lesson plan, created by Dr. Shane Markowitz, Director of Global Education and Teacher of Global Studies, World Geography, and World History at C. S. Lewis Bilingual High School in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, is based on the article "'Turkified': Why I Can Never Be a Proper German," published in Der Spiegel, and explores issues of integration, stereotyping, and prejudice in Germany. |
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Kim Sheahan, Assistant Director of Education at Spurlock Museum, created this lesson plan to use the common artifact of paper money, or bank notes, as a teaching tool. Students compare money from different countries and different time periods to see how the bank notes are similar to and different from one another. What can these bank notes tell us? Materials for this lesson can be found in a publicly accessible Box folder here. |
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European Union: Which Nation Should Join Next? With all the talk about Brexit, why do countries want to join the EU? This lesson, created by Pat Miletich, History and Social Studies Teacher at the University School of Nashville in Nashville, U.S., will allow students to research the EU, member states, and candidates; examine the criteria and process for admittance; weigh the advantages and disadvantages of EU membership; and scrutinize the reasons for and decision-making involved in deciding which nation should join next. |
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Psychological Aspects of the Holocaust This syllabus, created by Cari Stevenson, Professor of Psychology at Kankakee Community College, as part of the International Studies Research Lab in 2017, explores psychology concepts through a study of the Holocaust. |
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Module on the European Union in International Relations This module was created by Amanda Cook Fesperman, Professor of Political Science and History at Illinois Valley Community College, as part of the International Studies Research Lab in 2018. The module uses the case of the European Union to teach students about intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) in international relations. |
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Minority Languages in France, Italy, and Spain This presentation was given by Alessia Zulato, Italian Language Teacher at Marist High School in Chicago, Ill., as part of the EU Center's 2020 Summer Curriculum Workshop. The video can be accessed here, and the accompanying slides can be found here. |
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Online Teaching Resources This presentation was given by Dr. Rhett Oldham, U.S. and World History Teacher at Ste. Genevieve Middle and High School in Ste. Genevieve, Mo., as part of the Summer 2020 Virtual Educators Workshop: K-14 Education During COVID-19 in the U.S. and Abroad, organized by the Illinois Global Institute area studies centers at the University of Illinois. The video can be accessed here, and the accompanying slides can be found here. |
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Official and Co-official Languages of Spain This video, geared towards K-8 students, introduces some common words and phrases in Spanish, Catalan, Galician, and Basque. |
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European Union Teaching Resources This guide, prepared by the International & Area Studies Library, is intended to assist teachers with using the Library to conduct personal and education-related research on the European Union. It includes resources available through UIUC (as well as instructions on how to access these materials) in addition to lesson plans, professional development opportunities, and other content freely available on the Internet. |
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Must Try Harder: Recovering from Educational Inequality This article in Social Europe, by Shane Markowitz, Director of Global Education and Teacher of Global Studies, World Geography, and World History at C. S. Lewis Bilingual High School in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, discusses the consequences the pandemic has had on access to education among disadvantaged children in Europe. |
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Emmanuelle Schön-Quinlivan, Lecturer in European Politics at University College Cork, created this booklet of activities and games for elementary school students to learn about the European Union. The booklet was originally put together for Europe Week 2021, but the activities can be used at any time. |