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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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  • Grades 6 - 8
  • Grades 9 - 12
  • Lesson Plan
  • Personal Essay
  • Intercultural Understanding
  • English Language Arts

Students will strive to view situations from more than their own point of view.

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

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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  • Grades 6 - 8
  • Grades 9 - 12
  • Video
  • Activity
  • Lesson Plan
  • Intercultural Understanding

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.

Turtle
  • Grades K - 2
  • Grades 3 - 5
  • Lesson Plan
  • Environment

Exchange information about endangered and extinct species through mini case studies.

Family
  • Grades K - 2
  • Grades 3 - 5
  • Lesson Plan
  • Intercultural Understanding
  • English Language Arts

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.

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

Students will enumerate features of their own culture and evaluate how those features have influenced their lives.

Field
  • Grades 6 - 8
  • Grades 9 - 12
  • Lesson Plan
  • Environment

Match and discuss environmental issues and possible responses in small groups.

Pepper
  • Grades 6 - 8
  • Grades 9 - 12
  • Lesson Plan
  • Environment

Assume a new identity and occupation to explore how food insecurity effects populations in different ways.

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

Students will examine how generalizations can be hurtful and unfair, and they will devise ways to qualify statements so they avoid stereotyping other people.

The Budala Women's group from fishpond to community investing.
  • Grades 6 - 8
  • Grades 9 - 12
  • Lesson Plan
  • Personal Essay
  • Intercultural Understanding
  • English Language Arts
  • Literature

Students examine what it takes to make a hero in a story about digging a hole for a fishpond.

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fish farming harvest
  • Grades 6 - 8
  • Grades 9 - 12
  • Lesson Plan
  • Personal Essay
  • Intercultural Understanding
  • English Language Arts
  • Literature

Students examine the culturally based impulse to share with others versus the impulse to watch out for oneself or one's immediate family.

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

Students will be led to grasp the importance of understanding behavior from the perspective of the culture in which that behavior is the norm.

RESPECT in Action!
  • Grades 3 - 5
  • Grades 6 - 8
  • Grades 9 - 12
  • Lesson Plan
  • Intercultural Understanding

Help participants build intercultural competence by working on cultural self-knowledge.

Litter Relay
  • Grades 3 - 5
  • Grades 6 - 8
  • Lesson Plan
  • Environment

Learn about the benefits of sorting materials to be reused, recycled, or thrown away.

A basketball team of young Jamaican men and women pose with donate basketballs with volunteer Don Holly.
  • Grades 6 - 8
  • Grades 9 - 12
  • Lesson Plan
  • Personal Essay
  • Intercultural Understanding
  • English Language Arts
  • Sports & Leisure

Students examine what goes into hero worship and establishing unlikely friendships.

Pest Control
  • Grades 6 - 8
  • Grades 9 - 12
  • Lesson Plan
  • Environment

Learn how to make natural alternatives to chemical pesticides.

Chinese students and Volunteer in a classroom
  • Lesson Plan
  • Foreign Language
  • Mandarin

This lesson is a brief presentation of the spoken Mandarin language and some cultural behaviors in China.

Three of the original ART-I-SAN "My Namibian Friend" dolls: Makena Mongoose, Lele Lion and Gili Giraffe.
  • Grades K - 2
  • Grades 3 - 5
  • Lesson Plan
  • Environment

This lesson plan engages students to illustrate the vast diversity of adaptations that animals use for survival, delineating how and why form fits function.

popcorn
  • Grades 3 - 5
  • Lesson Plan
  • Environment

This lesson plan makes use of popcorn to help students understand and explore the concepts of renewable and nonrenewable resources and their use over time.

Recycling Scavenger Hunt
  • Grades K - 2
  • Grades 3 - 5
  • Lesson Plan
  • Environment

Go out into the community to collect and sort recyclable materials.

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