Other Resources for Teachers

This page includes links to a range of online resources for teaching about Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia.

Outreach World

Outreach World is an online source for instructional materials prepared by U.S Department of Education-funded National Resource Centers (NRCs) focusing on Africa, Asia, Canada, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, the Pacific Islands and International Studies; Language Resource Centers (LRCs); and Centers for International Business and Education Research (CIBERs).

Teacher Resources at Selected U.S. Department of Education-designated National Resource Centers for Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central/Inner Asia

Cornell University / Syracuse University - Consortium of European Studies
Duke University / University of North Carolina - Consortium of Centers for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies
Harvard University - Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian studies
Indiana University - Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center
Indiana University - Russian and East European Institute
Ohio State University - Center for Slavic and East European Studies
Stanford University - Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
University of California, Berkeley - Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
University of California, Los Angeles - Center for European and Eurasian Studies
University of Chicago - Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies
University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign - Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center
University of Kansas - Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
University of Michigan - Center for Russian and East European Studies
University of Pittsburgh - Center for Russian and East European Studies
University of Texas, Austin - Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
University of Washington - Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies
University of Wisconsin, Madison - Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia
Yale University - MacMillan Center Programs in International Educational Resources

Online Resources for Social Studies Teachers

Beyond Algorithms: A Librarian's Guide to Finding Web Sites You Can Trust includes criteria for discerning the quality and content of a website and a link to the Librarians' Internet Index. (Source: Google's Newsletter for Librarians)
Central and Eastern European Online Library provides access to full text PDF articles from humanities and social science journals, electronic books and re-digitized documents.
The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated - Photographs of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) offer a portrait of the Russian Empire on the eve of World War I and the coming revolution.
EUobserver contains daily news articles pertaining to the EU and enlargement countries with links to similar articles in other English and non-English news sources.
From Silk to Oil: Cross-Cultural Connections Along the Silk Roads is a downloadable book with curriculum for exploring Inner Asia (including Central Asia) and one of the world's oldest and most important trade routes.
Global SchoolNet is an annotated resource page for reference tools such as maps, language translators, measurement, time zone and currency converters.
Holocaust Education Resources - A compilation of various Holocaust resources from the 2004 American Library Association Conference.
Jewish Holocaust - Provides links to over a hundred various websites about the Holocaust, including resources for teachers, virtual libraries, and homepages for Holocaust-related memorial groups and centers. Site most recently updated on July 2nd, 2007.
The Kremlin website - In English or Russian (includes a section for kids, but only in Russian).
National Library of Russia - An on-line collection of images, and manuscripts; access to catalogs and exhibitions; language support; etc.
Poland in the Classroom - This site, organized by the Polish Academic Information Center at the State University of New York at Buffalo, contains research materials "For the Children" (for K-6 teachers) and "For the Student" (for 7-12 teachers). There is also a link to the Center's information clearinghouse "Poland on the Web" which provides annotate links to postings about Poland.
"The Resurgence of Russia" - A five-part NPR series explores newly assertive Russia and its similarities to the Soviet Union.
Russian Chronicles - The blog of a writer and a photographer on a journey across Russia (1995 and again ten years later in 2005).
"Seventeen Moments in Soviet History" - Starting with the 1917 Bolshevik seizure of power and ending with the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union; NEH funded.
Soviet Dictatorship (20th c.) -This classroom module of the Women in World History project (created by Center for History and New Media at George Mason University) contains primary sources, teaching tools, and resources about Soviet Dictatorship.
TOL Knowledge Net - Contains country-specific portals for each of the countries in Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and the Balkans.
Virtual Library Eastern Europe - This is a portal for extensive specialist academic information on the history, culture, politics and society of the countries and regions of Eastern Europe.

Sources of Curriculum Materials and Media on Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union and/or Global Issues

The Choices Program - Sells reproducible curriculum units on a variety of complex international issues; for high school and above. Also provides an online section called "Teaching with the News" to help teachers address current global events in their classroom.
Klett-Perthes International - Modern, contemporary wall maps for schools made for all regions of the world in the English language; new updated world maps; transparency books and picture diagrams.
Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE) - Sells teaching materials on the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and other parts of the world, including curriculum units on current events, language, global issues; various grade levels.

Internet Resources for Russian Language Teachers

American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages (AATSEEL) - Includes "Why Study Russian?" and links to outside course syllabi for Russian culture, language, linguistics, and literature (found under Additional Resources).
Conradish - Russian e-versions of most literature classics, text is hyperlinked to a vocabulary translator and grammar explanation for those who have just begun to learn the Russian language.
Digital Dialects - Interactive games for learning the Russian language.
Ethnic Television Network - Russian TV and videos site, also available in broadband. Only in Russian.
Ethnologue: Languages of the World - A site containing language data, database, language maps, extensive bibliography, computer resources, and bookstore for doing research on the world's languages. This site is owned by SIL International, an organization that works with people who research/teach/speak the world's lesser-known languages.
Global Language Online Support System allows you to search through 142 audio lessons for proficiency levels 2 - 4 for the following lesser-taught languages: Albanian, Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Dari, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Kurdish, Persian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish.
Russian Literature Resource Guide (Dictionary of Russian Women Writers) - This site has a list of Russian Women Writers; those marked in blue have searchable works in the Perkins Library at Duke University's library catalog.
Multitran automatic dictionary offers English-Russian and Russian-English alphabetic, morphologic and phrase searches. A number of additional morphology search engines are available online.
Novosti Nedeli na Uproshchyonnom Russkom - Weekly News in Simplified Russian delivers a survey of the previous week's news in simplified standard Russian.
Olga's Blog -This site contains interactive Russian lessons (in blog format) written by a young, native Russian about issues and events pertinent to Russia today. Most recent post was January 30th, 2007.
The RAILS: Russian Advanced Interactive Listening Series Project at the University of Wisconsin, funded by a generous grant from the U.S. Department of Education, has developed a series of 30 online, interactive video-based listening comprehension lessons for intermediate-advanced level students of Russian.
Russian TV stations online - This site streams 20 TV Channels from Russia, Ukraine, and Latvia in Russian.
Russnet - Russnet is a repository for Russian Language Resources which includes its own collection of Russian Language Modules. Russnet is brought to you by The American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS.
RusUSA.com - Provides links to Russian radio broadcasting/streaming on the Internet.
The School of Russian and Asian Studies (SRAS) - A site dedicated to encouraging education in and about the countries of the former Soviet Union. This site contains travel and study resources.
Slavic Language Learning Site: Russian - Online Russian language site prepared by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan.
Super Russian Resources - This site contains many links to Russian culture, language, news, history and travel sites, collected and updated by Jim Becker, Professor Emeritus at the University of Northern Iowa.
Vesti - This is the homepage for Vesti, the national and international 24/7 news channel dealing with everything from politics to literature to culture. In Russian only.
Websites for Teachers of Russian - A list of links (with short descriptions) to many working websites that may be helpful in teaching the Russian language or Russian culture.