Culture

• Building Bridges: A Peace Corps Classroom Guide to Cross-Cultural Understanding

  This electronic publication is a classroom resource and contains short, adaptable lesson plans and activities that build cross-cultural awareness, respect, and communication skills. Lessons are flexible, easy to use, and standards-based for easy adaptation by teachers of U.S. grades 6 through 12.

• Culture Matters: The Peace Corps Cross-Cultural Workbook (PDF)

  Culture Matters is an excellent training resource designed to increase cultural awareness from self-reflection and observation, through communication and adaptation. This interactive workbook uses exercises, stories, quotations, and descriptive text to help the reader successfully adapt to a new culture or live and work in a multicultural environment. Illustrated. ERIC: ED429911.

• Culture Matters Trainers' Guide

  Training sessions in this guide correspond to concepts introduced in the Culture Matters Workbook.

• Insights from the Field: Understanding, Geography, Culture and Service

  This resource is designed to engage American students in an inquiry about the world, themselves, and others as they focus on a culture other than their own. This resource contains learning activities and performance tasks to help students learn about geography; increase their understanding of other cultures; appreciate how they are connected to their world; become inspired to engage in service to others; and achieve important curriculum standards.

• La Cultura si Importa (PDF)

  This publication is the Spanish language version of Culture Matters: The Peace Corps Cross-Cultural Workbook.

• Looking at Ourselves and Others

  The activities contained in this resource will challenge students to become more conscious of the values they share with their families, friends, and communities. The materials also provide students with analytical tools that help combat stereotypical thinking and enhance cross-cultural communication.

• Voices from the Field: Reading and Writing about the World, Ourselves, and Others (PDF)

  This resource contains two sections and is designed for use by language arts teachers in U.S. grades 7-12. The Peace Corps Stories section contains narratives, fiction, folktales, and poetry around which lesson plans are organized. The Curriculum Units section contains two separate, but complementary language arts units: Reading and Responding to Literature and A Reading and Writing Workshop. Lessons are intended to engage students' imaginations and inspire them to lead "wide-awakened" lives.

Last updated Sep 23 2008