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Special Values: Travel & Tourism

Bring the world into your home or classroom! These "World Wise Schools" videos and country study guides capture the experience and knowledge of Peace Corps volunteers, specially designed for students in grades 3 through 12. Students discover people and places around the globe through personal accounts of volunteers and a variety of professionally developed activities.

Destination: Cameroon (Video Tape)

Publisher: Peace Corps, Office of World Wise Schools

Description: WWS 15V-92. Focuses on daily life in Cameroon as experienced by Peace Corps Volunteers who live and work in the communities of Andek, Ambam, and Bogo.

Year/Pages: 1996: Video tape (20 min.).

Price: $25.00 $5.50

Destination: Honduras (Video Tape)

Publisher: Peace Corps, Office of World Wise Schools

Description: WWS 13V-92. Introduces students to the culture and geography of Honduras as seen through the eyes of Peace Corps Volunteers and the families with whom they work and live. Gives students a better understanding of our fellow Americans and a better understanding of themselves.

Year/Pages: 1996: Video tape (20 min.).

Price: $25.00 $5.50 Add To Cart

Destination: Honduras, Study Guide

Publisher: Peace Corps, Office of World Wise Schools

Description: WWS 13T-92. Explores the culture, geography and history of Honduras. Written for three grade levels: 3-5; 6-9; and 10-12. Arranges activities and worksheets first by level and then by geographic theme. To be used with a videotape of the same name which is sent to school librarians.

Year/Pages: 1995: 72 p.; ill.

Price: $11.00 $2.50

Destination: Kyrgyzstan (Video Tape)

Publisher: Peace Corps, Office of World Wise Schools

Description: WWS 30V-96. Shows, through the eyes of local students, how the people of Kyrgyzstan are working to rebuild their economy and reclaim their heritage.

Year/Pages: 1996: Video tape (22 min.).

Price: $25.00 $5.50

Destination: Kyrgyzstan (Study Guide)

Publisher: Peace Corps, Office of World Wise Schools

Description: WWS 29T-96. Prepared by Kristen J. Amundson. Offers a close view of Kyrgyzstan. Designed to help students learn about the history and culture of this nation. Presents teaching materials which deal with the influence of physical geography on the culture. Focuses on the diversity. Groups activities into 3 levels: grades 3-5; grades 6-9; and grades 10-12.

Year/Pages: 1996: 80 p.; ill.

Price: $14.00 $3.50

Destination: Lesotho (Video Tape)

Publisher: Peace Corps, Office of World Wise Schools

Description: WWS 19V-93. Introduces viewers to the culture and geography of the mountain kingdom of Lesotho in the southern cone of Africa.

Year/Pages: 1996: Video tape (22 min.).

Price: $25.00 $5.50

Destination: Lesotho, Study Guide

Publisher: Peace Corps, Office of World Wise Schools

Description: WWS 20T-93. Helps students gain a greater understanding of Lesotho. Topic units are grouped by three academic grade levels: 3-5; 6-9; and 10-12. Each unit level develops along five fundamental themes of geography: location; place; relationships within places; movement; and regions.

Year/Pages: 1995: 76 p.; ill.

Price: $11.00 $2.75

Destination: Lithuania (Video Tape)

Publisher: Peace Corps, Office of World Wise Schools

Description: WWS 22V-94. Explores the impact of changes to Lithuania on the lives of students and their communities. Follows a 14 year old child through her day as she talks about the economic challenges presented by Lithuania's new found independence. Introduces Peace Corps Volunteer Sean Connolly who teaches at a local high school. Visits places throughout the country including Klaipeda, the oldest city in Lithuania.

Year/Pages: 1996: Video tape (22 min.).

Price: $25.00 $5.50

Destination: Lithuania, Study Guide

Publisher: Peace Corps, Office of World Wise Schools

Description: WWS 21T-94. Prepared by Rima Kasubaite-Binder and Elise Sprunt Sheffield. Provides teachers and students with a structured approach to learning about Lithuania. Divided into three parts: Part 1 provides background information on Peace Corps, geography themes and Lithuania; Part 2 features supplemental activities for grades 3-5, 6-9, and 10-12; Part 3 offers resources, such as worksheets, maps, and a bibliography. Broadens understanding of other countries by providing information that enables students to identify patterns of culture and geography.

Year/Pages: 1995: 76 p.; ill.

Price: $11.00 $2.75

Destination: Marshall Islands (Video Tape)

Publisher: Peace Corps, Office of World Wise Schools

Description: WWS 11V-91. Introduces students to the culture and geography of the Marshall Islands, an newly independent North Pacific country. Emphasizes the influences geography has had on the lifestyle of the islanders through the years. This video was done by World Wise high school students from Teutopolis, Illinois.

Year/Pages: 1996: Video tape (20 min.).

Price: $25.00 $5.50

Destination: Marshall Islands, Video Guide

Publisher: Peace Corps, Office of World Wise Schools

Description: WWS 10T-91. Introduces students to both the geography and culture of the Marshall Islands, a country in which Peace Corps Volunteers serve. This videotape was produced by the students of Teutopolis High School, Teutopolis, Illinois.

Year/Pages: 1995: 72 p.; ill.

Price: $11.00 $2.50

Destination: Nepal (Video Tape)

Publisher: Peace Corps, Office of World Wise Schools

Description: WWS 09V-91. Portrays daily life as experienced by Peace Corps Volunteers in Nepal. Gives students a better understanding of Nepal and other peoples, as well as a better understanding of themselves.

Year/Pages: 1996: Video tape (10 min.).

Price: $25.00 $5.50

Destination: Nepal, Video Guide

Publisher: Peace Corps, Office of World Wise Schools

Description: WWS 08T-91. Used in conjunction with the videotape by the same name. Provides activities for students to: describe Nepal in terms of cultural and geographic diversity; compare and contrast aspects of Nepalese and American life; and relate the fundamental themes of geography to Nepalese culture and geography. Written for three grade levels: 3-5; 6-9; and 10-12.

Year/Pages: 1995: 72 p.; ill.

Price: $11.00 $2.50

Destination: Paraguay (Video Tape)

Publisher: Peace Corps, Office of World Wise Schools

Description: WWS 26V-95. Takes viewers to one of two landlocked countries in South America to observe life in the rural country side and the urban environment of the capital of Paraguay.

Year/Pages: 1996: Video tape (20 min.).

Price: $25.00 $5.50

Destination: Poland (Video Tape)

Publisher: Peace Corps, Office of World Wise Schools

Description: WWS 04V-90. Introduces viewers to Poland. Shows that Poland's physical geography has played an important part in its tumultuous history. Takes viewers into Polish classrooms. Features reflections of a new economic system.

Year/Pages: 1996: Video tape (16 min.).

Price: $25.00 $5.50

Destination: Poland

Publisher: Peace Corps, Office of World Wise Schools

Description: Offers teachers a variety of lessons and activities designed to introduce students in grades 3-12 to the centuries-old culture of Poland.

Year/Pages: 1999: 104 p.; ill.

Price: $14.00 $3.50

Destination: Senegal, Video Guide

Publisher: Peace Corps, Office of World Wise Schools

Description: WWS 05T-90. Designed for a 3-5 day mini-unit on Senegal. Used in conjunction with the videotape of the same name. Presents basic information on the geography of Senegal. Explores aspects of Senegalese culture. Written for three grade levels: 3-5; 6-9; 10-12.

Year/Pages: 1995: 85 p.; ill.

Price: $13.00 $3.00

Destination: Sri Lanka (Video Tape)

Publisher: Peace Corps, Office of World Wise Schools

Description: WWS 12V-91. Takes viewers halfway around the world to the island country once known as Ceylon. Students experience home life in Sri Lanka and visit many areas of the country.

Year/Pages: 1996: Video tape (15 min.).

Price: $25.00 $5.50

Destination: Sri Lanka, Video Guide

Publisher: Peace Corps, Office of World Wise Schools

Description: WWS 12T-91. Designed to supplement students' study of South Asia. Used in conjunction with the videotape "Destination: Sri Lanka." Provides students with the opportunity to: identify similarities and differences between their lives and the lives of young people in Sri Lanka; apply fundamental geographic themes to Sri Lanka; and research the geography and culture of their Peace Corps Volunteer's host country. Written for three grade levels: 3-5; 6-9; and 10-12.

Year/Pages: 1995: 72 p.; ill.

Price: $11.00 $2.50

Handbook for RPCV Speakers

Publisher: Peace Corps, Office of World Wise Schools

Description: WWS 28T-95. Prepared by Elise Sprunt Sheffield. Edited by Mary Koller and Margaret Legowski. Designed to help Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCV) prepare themselves to speak about their experiences to school children in their home areas. Includes prepared classroom activities.

Year/Pages: 1996: 29 p.; ill.

Price: $4.25 $1.25

Peace Corps Mosaic, V. 1, Teacher Video Guide (Video Tape)

Publisher: Peace Corps, Office of World Wise Schools

Description: WWS-VB1-96. Teachers video guide to the "Destination" video series which introduces grades 3-12 to nearly a dozen countries that the Peace Corps serves. Enhances each class' understanding of a culture and region of the world that is different from their own. Encourages students to look more closely at their own culture, and to identify the similarities and differences that exist among cultures.

Year/Pages: 1996: Video tape and booklet.

Price: $25.00 $5.50 Add To Cart

To Touch the World: The Peace Corps Experience (Video Tape)

Publisher: Peace Corps, Office of World Wise Schools

Description: WWS 27V-95. Takes viewers to the home of returned Peace Corps Volunteer Thurman Matthieson. Thurman talks about Cameroon where he served as a volunteer. Reveals some of the core values of the Peace Corps throught the comments of several volunteers. Gives viewers insights into the uniqueness of the Peace Corps as a development organization and as a method of promoting cross-cultural understanding.

Year/Pages: 1996: Video tape (10 min.).

Price: $25.00 $5.50

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