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This cultural workbook is designed for easy adaptation by teachers in grades 6 through 12.
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Learners will examine mealtime etiquette in different countries and gain perspectives about other cultures from the rules governing table manners.
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Read and discuss autobiographical essays about the daily lives of girls from Georgia, Guyana, and Uganda.
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In this lesson students will learn about the concept of happiness in the countries of Mongolia, Paraguay, and Ethiopia.
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In this lesson students will learn about the concept of "home" in the countries of Cambodia, Guatemala, and Guinea.
Students learn about how food security affects the US and the world.
Kids collect insects, keep them for a day or two, observe them, and release them.
Learn about and try to recognize an individual tree through smelling, touching, and listening.
Students will examine what it means to be "American" in the eyes of people from other cultures.
Use a timed sorting activity and review to explore different connections to water.
These lessons will help you learn normal conversation in Jordan, rather than focusing on formalities.
A Story by a Peace Corps Volunteer
Students will wrestle with resolving contrasting values between cultures.
This lesson is a brief presentation of the Bambara language spoken in Mali.
Through a simulation game, students will experience what it is like to confront and deal with a culture highly different from their own.
This lesson engages students to illustrate the relationships of how plant and animal life are connected in an ecosystem
Divide learners into small groups to debate and discuss environmental dilemmas and possible plans of action.
Students will discover that cultural norms heavily influence how we communicate.
Don't judge your water by its cover.
Learners will examine features of culture to determine which are visible and which are invisible, and how these features affect each other.
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