Exchanging Cultures - Students form collaborative exchange groupsto prepare for a year of study in a foreign country of choice. They create a multimedia presentation to summarize their group findings to their classmates.
Overall Rating: | Grades: 6 - 8 | Full Review >>

Adulthood - Students examine the physical, cognitive and socioemotional changes of adulthood. They focus on how thoughts, feelings and behaviors are influenced by the presence of others such as in the case of substance abuse.
Overall Rating: | Grades: 9 - 12 | Full Review >>

Aesop and Ananse: Animal Fables and Trickster Tales - Students complete compare and contrast activities dealing with fables and trickster tales to determine how each uses animals to portray human characteristics, specifically strengths and weaknesses, as well as pass wisdom from one generation to the next.
Overall Rating: | Grades: 3 - 5 | Full Review >>

FOR WHOM THE CLOCK STRIKES - Students explore celebrations marking the new year in various cultures and countries around the world. They propose a plan for a New Year's celebration for a fictional nation that is inclusive of the diverse populations there.
Overall Rating: | Grades: 6 - 12 | Full Review >>

A Bash in Baalbeck: Creating a Lebanese Festival - Students learn the diversity of the culture of Lebanon through this series of cross-curricular lessons.
Overall Rating: | Grades: 1 - 6 | Full Review >>

Travelers: Asia - Students explain that Asian cultures celebrate many festivals and that other cultures celebrate festivals similar to and different from Asian festivals.
Overall Rating: | Grades: 6 - 8 | Full Review >>

A Single Lucid Moment - Students examine a case study of contrasting values between cultures. They read and discuss a story of a family of Peace Corps volunteers in Papua New Guinea, write a response to the story, and write a script for a dramatization of the story.
Overall Rating: | Grades: 6 - 12 | Full Review >>

Island Culture and Vulnerability - Students examine how indigenous island cultures obtain food, water, and foster a profitable economy. They discover why the land, too, is very vulnerable and susceptible to human disturbances.
Overall Rating: | Grades: 9 - 12 | Full Review >>

Understanding Modern Vietnam Through the Five Themes of Geography - Students explore Vietnam and prepare a studenT book about Vietnam using the five themes of Geography. These books be used to teach a younger classroom about Vietnam, as part of a service-learning project in our school.
Overall Rating: | Grades: 6 - 8 | Full Review >>

Module One - Meeting Needs and Wants - Students examine how all students have basic needs and wants. that many of the basic needs and wants can be met within the family.
Overall Rating: | Grade: 1 | Full Review >>