The Peace Corps Coverdell WorldWise Schools Website offers  lessons, information about cross-cultural publications, videos, stories, folk tales, and a program to help arrange classroom visits by Peace Corps Volunteers. The program is designed to broaden perspectives in culture and geography and to encourage service. It also helps students come to better value the rich heritage and broad representation of peoples within their own communities.

Lesson Plans – Search by region, country, subject, or grade level for ready-made lessons ranging from cultural issues to practical challenges of obtaining water, from studying folk tales to understanding the norms of other peoples. All are standards-based and free.

Stories – The voice of the Peace Corps Volunteer — from posts isolated and urban, frigid and tropical, Western and Eastern—written from the field or after their return. Visit other cultures through letters, stories, folk tales, and poems written by the Volunteers who have lived for two years among the peoples and cultures featured.

Speakers Match – The Speakers Match program connects U.S. classrooms and other audiences with former Peace Corps Volunteers.

Enrichment Projects – Enhance lessons with resources that promote awareness of critical global issues and cross-cultural intelligence.

Multimedia – Peace Corps-inspired podcasts, videos, and slide shows.

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