Open Educational Resources

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¿Es posible sembrar agua?

¿Es posible sembrar agua?

Description: This video introduces the water sowing technique, which is used by a coffee grower in Antioquia, Colombia to conserve water sources on his farm. A mixture of sea salt, brown sugar and gravel or river stones stimulates water retention and filtration in the...
Las qochas

Las qochas

Description: Produced in collaboration with Peru’s Climate Change Adaptation Programme (PACC) and the Social Development Cooperation Fund (FONCODES), this educational video explores the ancient technology of water harvesting and storage using qochas, which are...
La creación del hombre (mito maya quiché)

La creación del hombre (mito maya quiché)

Description: This animated video presents the K’iche’ (or Quiché) Maya myth of the creation of human beings, drawn from the Popol Vuh, the foundational text of K’iche’ Maya cosmology. In this account, the gods attempt several times to create...
La leyenda maya del colibrí

La leyenda maya del colibrí

Description: Mayan myth about the hummingbird. Teaching ideas: Use the myth genre as a lens to explore ideas about the relationship between humans and nature. Students can also write a myth about another species of their...
Place-Names in Mexico-Tenochtitlan

Place-Names in Mexico-Tenochtitlan

Description: The place-names that residents of the Mexica capital of Tenochtitlan (today Mexico City) gave to their city were both descriptive of topography and commemorative of history. Largely effaced from the Spanish historical register, Mexico City’s Nahuatl...