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SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES FOR K–12 SCHOOLS
The following list is just a start. We encourage you to be creative in
planning events for IEW and let
us know about your activities.
Recognizing the need to help teachers and parents address issues such
as diversity, prejudice and post-9/11 fears among America's young people,
the National Football League partnered with Scholastic Inc. to develop
One World: Connecting Communities, Cultures, and Classrooms, a unique
education program designed to encourage cultural understanding for students.
The free, web-based One World program can be downloaded by logging on
to: http://scholastic.com/oneworld.
Incorporate information on a country or culture into your regular
lesson plan, even if you don't teach social studies.
Adopt a school in a developing country and donate school supplies,
reference materials, and other items.
Trade questions and answers with students from another country through
the Internet, pen pal clubs, or a Digital Video Conference.
Explore international aspects of the arts—music, film, theatre,
visual arts, literature, dance—by creating, performing, or studying
artworks with an international component. This could include a field
trip to a museum or concert or showing a foreign film in class.
Organize a cross-cultural potluck lunch in which students bring in
or make foods from their homeland or ancestors' homeland.
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Feature local international experts as speakers:
Fulbright Students and Scholars, former diplomats
or Peace Corps volunteers, business leaders working
for multi-national corporations, or journalists.
Participate in a Model
UN.
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Ask students to write an essay on a country they
would like to visit and why they chose that country.
Assign students to produce a video or website about their cross-cultural
experiences. The video could explore issues of cultural idiosyncrasies,
stereotypes, and/or their own experiences in another culture.
Hold a Geography, Foreign Language, or World History Bee for your
students.
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