A personal essay about day-to-day life for Aber, a girl from Kitgum in North-central Uganda.

Students learn about how food security affects the US and the world.

A personal essay about day-to-day life for Adiya, a girl from an urban mining town in Guyana.

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.

The Pulaku Documentary Project takes students on a trip across West Africa, allowing them to experience different aspects a culture threatened by desertification and development.

A personal essay about day-to-day life for Akello, a girl from Pabo in northern Uganda.

Students will examine what it means to be "American" in the eyes of people from other cultures.

A personal essay about day-to-day life for Amwato Catherine, a girl from Soroti in Northeastern Uganda.

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

A personal essay about a Peace Corps Volunteer and their experience

Students will wrestle with resolving contrasting values between cultures.

An essay that uses a storm as a metaphor for life in South Africa.

The writer confronts issues of racial prejudice that she encounters in South Africa, years after the abolition there of the official policy of apartheid.

Students will examine the universal nature of folk tales and evaluate the meaning of a tale told in Togo.

This lesson is a brief presentation of the Bambara language spoken in Mali.

This lesson plan engages students as a class to simulate the sonarlike system of echolocation used by bats to locate their prey

Through a simulation game, students will experience what it is like to confront and deal with a culture highly different from their own.