Publications
Activities and lessons based on Peace Corps Volunteers' cross-cultural experiences
- Building Bridges: A Peace Corps Classroom Guide to Cross-Cultural Understanding
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Thirteen exercises for grades 6–12 to help students understand other cultures and promote tolerance for them.
- Building Bridges for Young Learners
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Five lessons to help Pre-K through grade 4 students learn about themselves and the world around them.
- Crossing Cultures: Peace Corps Letters From the Field
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A newly gathered collection of letters written by Peace Corps Volunteers capturing the adventures and challenges, joys and sorrows, trials and rewards of service in another land.
- Uncommon Journeys: Peace Corps Adventures Across Cultures
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Compelling stories from Peace Corps Volunteers about cultures around the world, with standards-based lessons for language arts, social studies, and geography classes.
- Voices From the Field: Reading and Writing About the World, Ourselves, and Others
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More Peace Corps Volunteer stories about their service overseas, with standards-based lessons for classes in reading and writing literature.
- Folk Tales: Stories From Peace Corps Countries Around the World
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Folk tales often represent the soul and history of a place. Peace Corps Volunteers hear these stories woven into conversations and daily life. Here, Volunteers retell some of these remarkable tales from more than 25 countries.
- CyberVolunteer Letters: Stories From In-service Peace Corps Volunteers
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A collection of letters written by actively serving Peace Corps Volunteers from 2000 to 2005 for students in the United States. The authors of these evocative stories, who sent their letters by e-mail, were known as CyberVolunteers.
- Insights From the Field: Understanding Geography, Culture, and Service
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Readings and exercises that focus on the Dominican Republic as a vehicle to help students learn about geography, culture, and serviceāa quest that can lead anywhere in the world.
- Looking at Ourselves and Others
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Activities and readings prompt students to define culture, to achieve new perspectives on their own culture and other cultures worldwide, to recognize differences in perception among cultures, and to challenge assumptions.
- Culture Matters: The Peace Corps Cross-Cultural Workbook
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Designed for Peace Corps Volunteers, this practical, hands-on guide is also a rich and useful resource for students who want to look into their own culture and become more understanding of people of other cultures.
- Building Bridges
- Voices From the Field
- Uncommon Journeys
- Crossing Cultures
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