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The Paul D. Coverdell World Wise Schools program fosters an understanding of other cultures and global issues by providing online educational resources based on the Peace Corps experience and facilitating communication among U.S. learners and current and returned Peace Corps Volunteers.

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Addressing Food Security Globally and Locally
  • Grades 9 - 12
  • Grades 6 - 8
  • Lesson Plan
  • Environment
  • Global Issues
  • Social Studies

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

Adopt a Bug
  • Grades K - 2
  • Lesson Plan
  • Environment

Kids collect insects, keep them for a day or two, observe them, and release them.

Adopt-a-Tree
  • Grades K - 2
  • Grades 3 - 5
  • Lesson Plan
  • Environment

Learn about and try to recognize an individual tree through smelling, touching, and listening.

A Fulani Adventure through West Africa
  • Grades 9 - 12
  • Lesson Plan
  • Geography
  • English Language Arts
  • Arts & Music
  • Social Studies
  • Foreign Language
  • Intercultural Understanding

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.

Americans
  • Grades 6 - 8
  • Grades 9 - 12
  • Lesson Plan
  • Intercultural Understanding

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

Aqua Words Relay Race
  • Grades K - 2
  • Grades 3 - 5
  • Lesson Plan
  • Environment

Use a timed sorting activity and review to explore different connections to water.

Arabic in Jordan
  • Lesson Plan
  • Foreign Language

These lessons will help you learn normal conversation in Jordan, rather than focusing on formalities.

"A Single Lucid Moment" Lesson
  • Grades 6 - 8
  • Grades 9 - 12
  • Lesson Plan
  • Intercultural Understanding
  • English Language Arts

Students will wrestle with resolving contrasting values between cultures.

"A South African Storm" Lesson
  • Grades 6 - 8
  • Grades 9 - 12
  • Lesson Plan
  • Intercultural Understanding
  • English Language Arts

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

A Togolese Tale: The Big Fire
  • Grades 9 - 12
  • Lesson Plan
  • English Language Arts
  • Literature

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

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Bambara in Mali
  • Lesson Plan
  • Foreign Language

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

Bat and Moth Game
  • Grades 3 - 5
  • Grades K - 2
  • Lesson Plan
  • Environment

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

Brief Encounters
  • Grades 9 - 12
  • Lesson Plan
  • Intercultural Understanding

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

Bringing Water to a Village in Lesotho
  • Grades K - 2
  • Grades 3 - 5
  • Lesson Plan
  • Arts & Music
  • Intercultural Understanding

In this lesson, students will learn about the role of water in ceremonies and celebrations around the world, as well as about the role water plays in the daily lives of those living in Lesotho.

Building Bridges: Classroom Guide to Cross-Cultural Understanding
  • Grades 6 - 8
  • Grades 9 - 12
  • Lesson Plan
  • Activity
  • Intercultural Understanding

This cultural workbook is designed for easy adaptation by teachers in grades 6 through 12.

Carmen's Farm
  • Grades 6 - 8
  • Grades 9 - 12
  • Lesson Plan
  • Environment

This lesson engages students to illustrate the relationships of how plant and animal life are connected in an ecosystem

Case Studies: What Would You Do?
  • Grades 6 - 8
  • Grades 9 - 12
  • Lesson Plan
  • Environment

Divide learners into small groups to debate and discuss environmental dilemmas and possible plans of action.

Celebrating Our Connections Through Water
  • Grades 3 - 5
  • Grades 6 - 8
  • Lesson Plan
  • Intercultural Understanding
  • English Language Arts
  • Religion

In this unit, students will reflect on the role of water in ceremonies and celebrations around the world.

Chatter
  • Grades 6 - 8
  • Lesson Plan
  • Intercultural Understanding

Students will discover that cultural norms heavily influence how we communicate.

Clear Water is not Clean Water
  • Grades K - 2
  • Grades 3 - 5
  • Lesson Plan
  • Environment

Don't judge your water by its cover.

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