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This cultural workbook is designed for easy adaptation by teachers in grades 6 through 12.
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This lesson aims to empower students to see themselves as part of a global society and understand the importance of connecting with other cultures.
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In this lesson, students will have the opportunity to “travel” around the world and explore how houses are built and how homes differ from one community to another.
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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.
Students will examine what it means to be "American" in the eyes of people from other cultures.
Students will wrestle with resolving contrasting values between cultures.
Students will discover that cultural norms heavily influence how we communicate.
Learners will examine features of culture to determine which are visible and which are invisible, and how these features affect each other.
After viewing the TED Talk Danger of a Single Story, participants will discuss in pairs situations in which they have perpetuated a single story, and been the target of a single story.
The following lesson engages young children in exploring the concept of family with emphasis on how families around the world share more commonalities than differences.
Students will examine how generalizations can be hurtful and unfair, and they will devise ways to qualify statements so they avoid stereotyping other people.
Students examine what it takes to make a hero in a story about digging a hole for a fishpond.
Students examine the culturally-based impulse to share with others versus the impulse to watch out for oneself or one's immediate family.
Students will be led to grasp the importance of understanding behavior from the perspective of the culture in which that behavior is the norm.
Students will examine themselves relative to their characteristics, abilities, and feelings. By making connections to children in another part of the world, they will discover that people are more alike than different.
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