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Time magazine has some fascinating timelines like this one for Greece.

A discussioni guide from Education World on the economic crisis in Greece. You can use this along with the other materials to discuss this topic.

SEveral hundred lessons and information on the European union that you can download and use in your classroom. This is very topical with the current crisis in Greece that is worth a discussion in the globally literate classroom.

How people spend their discretionary income - the cash that goes to clothing, electronics, recreation, household goods, alcohol - depends a lot on where they live. People in Greece spend almost 13 times more money on clothing as they do on electronics. People living in Japan spend more on recreation than they do on clothing, electronics and household goods combined. Americans spend a lot of money on everything.

Here are Michael Thornton's student livebinders. These are textbooks written by the students. Except for the typo on Ancient Greece review, this is a marvelous example of having students build meaningful textbooks.Interestingly, Michael's livebinder puts together livebinders themselves. I'm going to be learning more about this tool and have my students use these this year.

A table of reading comprehension strategies - geared to an students higher then elementary, but some of the ideas could be geared down.

Lots of good templates available for download! Love the "unit curriculum map"!