Immigrant and Refugee Families: Global Perspectives on Displacement and Resettlement Experiences offers an interdisciplinary perspective on immigrant and refugee families' challenges and resilience across multiple domains, including economic, political, health, and human rights. This new edition has been revised and updated from the original 2016 edition.

Immigrant and Refugee Families: Global Perspectives on Displacement and Resettlement Experiences offers an interdisciplinary perspective on immigrant and refugee families' challenges and resilience across multiple domains, including economic, political, health, and human rights. This new edition has been revised and updated from the original 2016 edition.

What is analytical chemistryAnalytical chemistry is a branch of chemistry which deals with the analysis of chemical substances of all sorts.The principles of this chemistry are used to check the quality of foods, drugs and other chemicals used in daily life.Without analytical procedures, it would be impossible to keep up strict norms to ensure the safety of these chemicals.But how analytical chemistry test’s the substance?It does so by two methods asBy qualitative testQuantitative check.In qualitative analysis, the nature of the actual ingredient and other associated substances are identified.For instance, let’s consider honey. It has many ingredients like water, sugar, pollen grains, invert sugars, etc.Here invert sugar an adulterant added by the manufacturers to increase the bulk and make profits.Qualitative analysis helps to determine how much of each ingredient is present in the whole of the honey sample. Presence of invert sugar indicates the quality of honey is low and it is substandard. 

When a flood is forecast for the Red River of the North, community leaders, emergency responders, and residents around Fargo, North Dakota, and Moorhead, Minnesota, can gauge their need for preparation by accessing visualizations showing the extent, depth, and timing of expected flooding.

This is a white paper that highlights an OER research study conducted at Yavapai College in Arizona. The study tracked retention, completion and success rates of student enrolled in courses using OER compared to similar courses not using OER. A student survey was administered to collect data on the students perspective of using OER in a class. A faculty survey was also administered to collect data on the faculty perspective of teaching with OER materials and their interpretation of how the students interacted with the materials. Results are shared and discussed.

The suburban city of Mount Rainier, Maryland, is doing its part to improve the water quality of a polluted river in its region: residents and organizations are using green infrastructure to reduce stormwater runoff.

Facing sea level rise, increasing numbers of wildfires, and encroachment of invasive species, managers of a national forest chose to integrate climate change into their new plan.

A federal study assessed vulnerabilities of transportation infrastructure to extreme events in Mobile, Alabama. The effort also resulted in tools and approaches that other transportation departments can use to assess and address their own vulnerabilities.

India and South Asia: From Area Studies to Ethnic Studies
Course design by Rachel Heilman, Issaquah High School.
Developed with the support of Sunila Kale (Associate Professor of International Studies) and the South Asia Center (Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington), with funding from the U.S. Department of Education National Resource Centers Program.

Dear Colleague,

I hope you are able to implement some version of this course at your institution! I have it aligned to Washington State Social Studies Standards, but it is right in line with Common Core-driven expectations and should fit well with any state’s standards. This course also very much supports the new Washington Ethnic Studies Framework.

––Rachel Heilman, March 2022

Course Description

How can understanding a particular region both shape and enhance our understanding of ourselves and the world around us? As we gain knowledge, how do we both recognize and cross the political boundaries we see on maps? In this one-semester course we will use an interdisciplinary approach to examine India and wider South Asia as we work to conceptualize the ways people, power, geography, and the past shape the region. For the purposes of this course South Asia will include Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. In our role as global citizens we will also expand our inquiries to the web of connections between South Asia and our own individual and social identities.

ESSENTIAL UNDERSTANDINGS• Genocide • Language • History • IdentityLEARNING OUTCOMESStudents will utilize primary documents for historical investigationStudents will define cultural genocideStudents will identify how attempts at education affected the culture of PNW Native Americans2018 SOCIAL SCIENCE STANDARDS• 4.12, 4.14, 4.16-4.22 • 8.3, 8.24, 8.25, 8.28-8.33 • HS.55, HS.56, HS.60-74ESSENTIAL QUESTIONSWhat are the intended and unintended consequences of government policies?What is cultural imperialism?What is destroyed in the name of progress? What is created?

The Influence of Lamaism on the Indigenous Lepchas of Sikkim

Anira Phipon Lepcha
Assistant Professor
Department of History
Sikkim University, Gangtok, Sikkim, India

Introduction
Sikkim was known as Mayal lyang, meaning the heavenly abode or a land of hidden paradise for the indigenous lepchas. From 1642, Chogyals belonging to Namgyal dynasty of Tibet ruled Sikkim and merged with India as 22nd state on 26th April 1975. The land is inhabited by the Lepchas and later migrants Nepali and Bhutias. The Lepchas, the Bhutias and the two sub-groups of Nepali meta group namely the Limboos and the Tamangs are recognized as scheduled tribe. Apart from these three main communities, many other ethnic groups also settle in Sikkim. Today, Sikkim has a total population of 6, 10,577 (Census 2011). Such process of migration and population intermixture has brought about a significant change in ethno-cultural, linguistic and religious scenario of this tiny Himalayan state.
Sikkim is known for serenity and pristine beauty and has a “unique culture caused by the diffusion of Buddhism, Hinduism, and animistic rituals of different religious faith.”(Gulia, 2005:13) Lepcha, the ancient settlers of Sikkim are recognized as the Primitive Tribe by the state government. They have their own ancient religion and cultural tradition of Mun and Boongthing which are hardly practiced nowadays. Their encounter with various ethnic groups has greatly endangered their traditional culture. Today they mostly follow Buddhism (henceforth Lamaism) and Christianity. How the diffusion of Lamaism has influenced the cultural and religious life of the Lepchas is the question to be attended to.
The Lepchas and their Religion
The Lepchas belonging to the mongoloid stock having linguistic affiliation to Tibeto-Burman family are the “real autochthones of Sikkim and Darjeeling Himalayas” (Mainwaring, 1876; Risley, 1928; Banerjee et al, 1980).” They call themselves ‘Rongpa’(Risley, 1928:1) or ‘Raongkup or Rumkup’(Tamsang, 2009: 652) . The Lepchas from time immemorial were nature worshippers who worshipped Mount Kanchanjunga. The mount is revered as the womb of their origin and their rituals are interwoven with stories emanating from the mount. Though they are

 Innovations in teaching of mathematics can be diversified in terms of Methods, Pedagogic Resources and Mastery Learning Strategy used in the teaching-learning process.

This inquiry project is about how healthy school lunches are for you and what companies are the healthiest.

Here you can find some brief instructions for how to hold seminar based in case methodology. In a case seminar you depart from a story that should to some extent contain a dilemma. This situation should be discussed in the seminar, and students will be encouraged to be able to argue for different standpoints. The text can be given in advance or at the seminar.

The City of Ann Arbor recognized stormwater runoff as a growing threat to the quality of their water supply. They're addressing the issue with two complementary strategies.

Students will be able to describe specific team-based actions and skills that empower healthcare providers to deliver participatory, patient/client-centered care

Interviews of Parents of Autistic Children for Families Advocating Autism Now (FAAN) in August 2012 in Eureka, California.http://humboldtfaan.org/Creative Co...

This educational resource provides essential information for implementation of Industry 4.0 in SME’s environment in the form of a collection of “recipes” suitable for SMEs that can be directly used by the owners and managers of SMEs. It includes practical approaches that support SMEs in the implementation of Industry 4.0 taking advantage on the decreasing costs of technologies like 3D printing, robotics, Augmented Reality, etc.

How can we learn diplomacy through history?

In June 2021, the National Museum of American Diplomacy (NMAD) launched the Historical Diplomacy Simulation Program. This program provides educators with the opportunity to bring diplomacy and the work of U.S. diplomats into the classroom. Historical diplomacy simulations also offer teachers a way to internationalize their curriculum.

In most classrooms, discussions about the work of U.S. diplomats and how the U.S. government engages in global issues are absent from the curriculum. To fill this gap, NMAD has developed educational programming to help students better understand diplomacy. These resources show students that many of the opportunities and challenges before the United States are global in source, scope, and solution.

Our signature educational resources are our diplomacy simulations. NMAD’s diplomacy simulations teach students about the work of the U.S. Department of State and the skills and practice of diplomacy as both a concept and a practical set of 21st-century skills. Stepping into the role of diplomats and working in teams, students build rapport with others, present clear arguments, negotiate, find common ground, and compromise to find a potential solution to a real-life historical crisis.