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CommonLit

Common Lit: The Peace Corps Journey

For Students 5th - 6th
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...
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US Department of State

Office of the Historian: Alliance for Progress and Peace Corps, 1961 1969

For Students 9th - 10th
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 Global

Tes: Peace Corps: Discovering New Perspectives on Life

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[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

Peace Corps: Looking at Ourselves and Others

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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

Siteseen: American Historama: Peace Corps

For Students 9th - 10th
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

Peace Corps: Stories

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource shares many stories of volunteers and their experiences helping people in different lands.
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Peace Corps

Peace Corps: Defining Culture

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Online lesson plan for facilitating student exploration of culture and how culture shapes the individual.
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Peace Corps

Peace Corps: A Togolese Tale: The Big Fire

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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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CommonLit

Common Lit: Themes: War & Peace: How Can We Achieve Peace?

For Students 9th - 10th
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

Peace Corps: Lesson Plan: Recognizing How Another Culture Differs From One's Own

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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

Peace Corps: Nomadic Life Lesson

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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

Peace Corps: Culture Matters Workbook

For Students 9th - 10th
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

Peace Corps: Day to Day Life in a Small African Village

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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

Peace Corps: Do You Really Know What Wealth Is?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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

Peace Corps: Soneka's Village

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Through this lesson plan students can examine features of the Maasai culture and compare it with their own.
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Peace Corps

Peace Corps: This Is Tanzania

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students will learn about the history of volcanoes and wildlife in Tanzania in this lesson plan.
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Article
Peace Corps

Peace Corps: Bolivia, When Success Is Truly Sweet

For Students 9th - 10th
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

Peace Corps: Working With Environmental Issues

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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

Peace Corps: Ilunga's Harvest Lesson

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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

Peace Corps: A South African Storm

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Kyrgyzstan

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[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

Peace Corps: Fighting Soil Erosion

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Educate students about soil erosion with this thorough lesson which focuses on the geography of Guinea.
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Peace Corps

Peace Corps: Where Life Is Too Short

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson enhances students' understanding of the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa and the rest of the world.
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US Army Center

U.s. Army Center of Military History: Peace Becomes Cold War, 1945 1950

For Students 9th - 10th
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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