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Common Lit: The Peace Corps Journey
A learning module that begins with "The Peace Corps Journey" by Jennifer Borgen, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
US Department of State
Office of the Historian: Alliance for Progress and Peace Corps, 1961 1969
A look at the Alliance for Progress and the assistance it promised for Latin American countries who agreed to increase democracy in their governments. See what successes there were through this program. Also read a brief overview of the...
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Tes: Peace Corps: Discovering New Perspectives on Life
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson plan allows students the opportunity to read about the experiences of a Peace Corps volunteer and how his worldview changed from learning more about another culture.
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Peace Corps: Looking at Ourselves and Others
Adapted lesson plans, used by the Peace Corps to prepare their volunteers, are divided into three suggested grade grouping: 3-5, 6-9, 10-12. These activities introduce students to the concepts of perspective, culture, and cross-cultural...
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Siteseen: American Historama: Peace Corps
Detailed facts on the Peace Corps, established by John F. Kennedy in 1961 to promote world peace and friendship.
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Peace Corps: Stories
This resource shares many stories of volunteers and their experiences helping people in different lands.
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Peace Corps: Defining Culture
Online lesson plan for facilitating student exploration of culture and how culture shapes the individual.
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Peace Corps: A Togolese Tale: The Big Fire
Through this lesson students will come to appreciate how folk tales express the culture in which they were derived through the writing.
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Common Lit: Themes: War & Peace: How Can We Achieve Peace?
This is a collection of Grade-Leveled texts (3-12) to address the question, "How can we achieve peace?" Select a grade level and a collection of on grade-level reading passages on the topic comes up. [Free account registration required...
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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.
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Peace Corps: Nomadic Life Lesson
Read a poem depicting two women of two different cultures and explore as a class how these two views of a situation can vary in this lesson.
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Peace Corps: Culture Matters Workbook
In-depth and thoughtful look at culture and the role it plays in our lives. Site includes lessons and handouts, articles about how non-Americans view Americans, what it's like to be from a different culture, the roots of American culture...
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Peace Corps: Day to Day Life in a Small African Village
Give students an opportunity to discover several aspects of day-to-day life in Tanzania through this lesson plan.
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Peace Corps: Do You Really Know What Wealth Is?
For this lesson students can embrace the struggles of poverty stricken native Malians and appreciate the role of music in their culture.
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Peace Corps: Soneka's Village
Through this lesson plan students can examine features of the Maasai culture and compare it with their own.
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Peace Corps: This Is Tanzania
Students will learn about the history of volcanoes and wildlife in Tanzania in this lesson plan.
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Peace Corps: Bolivia, When Success Is Truly Sweet
In Spanish. The energy and motivation of Bolivians towards caring for their environment and wanting to improve their economy is detailed here with a popular fruit crop.
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Peace Corps: Working With Environmental Issues
Water is a concern for the health through parasites and diseases in West Africa. This lesson plan emphasizes the importance of clean water.
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Peace Corps: Ilunga's Harvest Lesson
Foster curiosity and awareness of the impact cultures have on people and how it affects both those within the culture as well as those outside of the culture through this lesson plan.
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Peace Corps: A South African Storm
Years after apartheid South Africa still faces racism. Help students see the struggles of racism and explore possible solutions to it with this lesson plan.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Kyrgyzstan
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students share in the reading of a Kyrgyzstan folktale, Mother Wolf and learn a little background on the Peace Corps. Students then watch a video that was created by the Peace Corps and focuses on three...
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Peace Corps: Fighting Soil Erosion
Educate students about soil erosion with this thorough lesson which focuses on the geography of Guinea.
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Peace Corps: Where Life Is Too Short
This lesson enhances students' understanding of the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa and the rest of the world.
US Army Center
U.s. Army Center of Military History: Peace Becomes Cold War, 1945 1950
A discussion of historical events that led to the Cold War from the perspective of the U.S. Army. Particular emphasis is placed on military leadership and policy.
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