Everything ESL
Everything Esl: Avoiding Offense When Communicating With Gestures
Important resource for understanding the different cultural implications of common gestures. Certain gestures, though inoffensive to Americans, may convey rudeness or an obscene message to persons of other cultures.
Everything ESL
Everything Esl: Christmas in France
Teach your ESL students about Christmas in France. This lesson features many downloads and resources.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Contemporary Proverbs
Interesting lesson plan that allows students to "update" traditional ancient proverbs to enhance their own understanding. Students also create original proverbs after reading.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Definitions and Models of Culture: Lesson 2
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand ways of describing culture based on both form and function. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Definitions and Models of Culture."
Other
Homelands Productions: Worlds of Difference
This site has intriguing stories about the possible problems of globalization around the world. Read and listen to interviews with people of varying cultures.
Migration Policy Institute
Migration Policy Institute: Country Profiles
A catalogue of the migration experience that looks at the diverse flows of immigrants around the world. Visitors can click on the profiles of individual countries to access brief summaries of vital data, immigration policies, history,...
University of Notre Dame
University Counseling Center: What Is Multicultural Awareness?
This resource provides a self-help menu of topics for exploring cross-cultural understanding. Thoughtful guidance for overcoming stereotypes and for increasing one's multicultural awareness.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Barriers to Listening
This instructional activity focuses on barriers to listening including cultural differences, gender, and technological distractions.
McGraw Hill
Circles of My Multicultural Self a Classroom Activity
Activity helps students identify what they consider to be the most important parts of their own identity and develop a better understanding of stereotypes.
Peace Corps
Peace Corps: Lesson Plan: Recognizing How Another Culture Differs From One's Own
After experiencing time in Guinea, a Peace Corps volunteer shares the cultural differences of punctuality and concepts of time in this lesson plan.
Microsoft
Microsoft Education: Around the World Calendar
A activity to help students learn about the culture and history of other countries.
American Forum for Global Education
American Forum for Global Education: Missing the Point
Understanding cultural differences is one of the main concepts taught in this lesson from the American Forum for Global Education. Students take a close look at communication and cultural differences.
Other
Nezar: Stories, Articles, and News in Arabic
Though most of the short stories here are incomplete (to be completed at a later date), the articles are complete. The author has also included some links to Arabic-language news sites, as well as his own lessons on learning French....
Other
Multicultural Awareness Respect Activity
A brief article suggesting a "getting to know you" activity. Discusses the different aspects of respect and learning from our differences. SL.9-10.1d Possitive Communication Stratagies
Other
Building Community in the Classroom (Lesson Plan)
Exercise in which participants introduce themselves by sharing information about their ethnicities and backgrounds, highlighting the similarity and diversity among members of the class.
A to Z Teacher Stuff
Ato Zteacherstuff: We're All the Same on the Inside
Site from AtoZteacherstuff utilizes hands-on activity in order to illustrate how people may look different because of race or ethnicity.
University of California
Uc Berkeley: Cultural Differences? Or, Are We Really That Different?
This article asserts that the differences between cultures and peoples are real and can add richness (and humor) to the fabric of life. People everywhere have much in common, such as a need for affiliation and love, participation, and...
American Forum for Global Education
American Forum for Global Education: Talking With Our Hands
This lesson from the American Forum for Global Education is designed to help children understand that using hands to "convey messages" is a form of communication.