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High School Level PASS Destinations

As students complete PASS units, they have the opportunity to visit “destinations” that provide fun and informative looks music, sports,and other topics from around the world. Aside from the break students can enjoy after working hard at PASS, these destinations provide additional benefits tostudents as well.

Additional practice reading and comprehending text, including opportunities to build vocabulary
Research skills that come from pursuing the Web links built in to each PASS destination
Opportunities to learn more about music, sports, and unusual places around the world

Now these same destinations are available to teachers for classroom use. To access the PASS high school destinations, click on one of the links below. If you’d like to suggest additional PASS destinations or just share ideas for how to use these destinations in class, click here.

PLEASE NOTE! When selecting a destination, you must use your browser's "back" button to return to the teacher's lounge. The destination pages do NOT contain a "return" or "back" button.

Destination Topic	Destination Title	Curriculum Connections
2008 Summer Olympics	Any plans for Summer 2008?	Social Studies, Physical Education
Australian Rock	Oz Rock	Social Studies, Fine Arts
Bossa Nova	Blame It on the Bossa Nova!	Social Studies, Fine Arts
Broadway	The Big Apple’s Biggest Stages	Social Studies, Language Arts
Cairo	Ancient + Modern = Cairo	Social Studies
Calypso	Music of Trinidad	Social Studies, Fine Arts
Cameroon	Kicking It in Cameroon	Social Studies, Physical Education
Canadian private islands	My Own Private Island	Social Studies
Carnival in Rio de Janeiro	Party On!	Social Studies
Castle Neuschwanstein	Castle Neuschwanstein	Social Studies
Chinatown	Worth its “wait” in gold	Social Studies
Dakar Rally Races	Dakar Rally Races	Social Studies, Physical Education
Disc Golf NEW!	Disc Golf	Social Studies, Physical Education
Ginza	Looking for a way to spend a few million yen?	Social Studies
Hawaiian Music	Aloha!	Social Studies, Fine Arts
Iditarod Races	The Iditarod	Social Studies, Physical Education
Indian Cricket	Indian Cricket	Social Studies, Physical Education
Indian Music	From Bollywood to Bhangra	Social Studies, Fine Arts
Jamaican Bobsled Team NEW!	An Unlikely Competitor	Social Studies, Physical Education
Karaoke	C'Mon, Everybody—Sing!	Social Studies, Fine Arts
Mabulu	The Music of Mozambique	Social Studies, Fine Arts
Music of the United Kingdom	Songs at Sea	Social Studies, Fine Arts
Netball NEW!	Netball in Australia	Social Studies, Physical Education
Pier 39	A Short Walk on a Long Pier!	Social Studies, Science
Quinceañera	Happy Quinceañera!	Social Studies, Langauge Arts
Rugby	New Zealand’s Football	Social Studies, Physical Education
Siberia	Russia's Sleeping Giant	Social Studies, Science
South African Music	Live from South Africa	Social Studies, Fine Arts
Sumo Wrestling	Sumo Wrestling	Social Studies, Physical Education
Sydney Opera House	G’Day, Mate!	Social Studies, Fine Arts
Tae Kwon Do	Tae Kwon Do	Social Studies, Physical Education
The bullfights of Pamplona	Toro! Toro! Toro!	Social Studies, Fine Arts
The Highland Games	The Highland Games	Social Studies, Physical Education
The Roskilde Festival	The Roskilde Festival: All Music, All the Time	Social Studies, Fine Arts
Turkey	No good movies playing? Just head east!	Social Studies, Fine Arts
Uruguay	Go to College—for Free!	Social Studies
Vals Criollo	Waltzing Drums?	Social Studies, Fine Arts
Venice	Tourism—Friend or Foe?	Social Studies