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Multicultural education

• African American: http://blackvoices.aol.com/ (choose the tab “education”)
  
• African American: http://blackquest.com/link.htm
  
• African culture: www.africancultureonline.com
  
• Africa south of the sahara: www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/culture.html
  
• American Experience: who we are: PBS' historical and cultural tour of US history: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/whoweare.html
• Asia Society's K-12 International Education initiative resources page: http://www.internationaled.org/resources.htm
• Asian Cultural Council: www.asianculturalcouncil.org
  
• Awesome Library: www.awesomelibrary.org/Classroom/Social_Studies/Multicultural/Multicultural.html
  
• Center for World Indigenous Studies: www.cwis.org/wwwvl/indig-vl.html
  
• The Cultural Orientation Center - a resource center for refugee newcomers throughout the U.S. and overseas: www.cal.org/co/about/

• Culturally responsive teaching: http://www.edvantia.org/
  
• Culturally Situated Design Tools- teaching math through culture: math teachers, check out this site! Inspired and FREE! www.rpi.edu/~eglash/csdt.html
• Cultural learning for high school: www.bigworldmedia.com/High_School_C2.cfm
  
• Culturegrams: a fee-based product providing information on more than 200 world culture: www.culturegrams.com/index.htm

• Diverse human languages: www.ilovelanguages.com
  
• Ethnomathematics website: www.ethnomath.org/
• First Peoples Project: sponsored by iEarn - students write and illustrate information about their first people culture: www.iearn.org/projects/fp.html
• Free the Children - this HIGHLY inspirational group is run by children for children around the world, founded the the winner of the youth Nobel Peace Prize, Craig Kielburger: http://www.freethechildren.com/index.php
• The Intergenerational Web Project: http://www.otan.dni.us/webfarm/emailproject/cul.htm
  
• Japanese Information Network: www.jinjapan.org
  
• Korean culture: www.koreanculture.org/
  
• Korean Culture and Arts Foundation: www.kcaf.or.kr/ehome3/emain.htm
  
• Latin American Resources: www.lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/k-12/
  
• Middle eastern culture: www.topqatarsites.com/middleeastandculture/
  
• Multicultural education: www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/educatrs/presrvce/pe3lk1.htm
  
• Multicultural games: www.ed.pdx.edu/multi/games.html
  
• Multicultural pavilion: www.edchange.org/multicultural
  
• National Geographic Society's learning site: www.mywonderfulworld.org
• National Museum of African American History and Culture - through a social networking link allows anyone to share memories, which allows students to interview adults and family members, and post their stories and reflections on the website: http://nmaahc.si.edu/
• Native American resources: http://crede.ucsc.edu/products/profdev/na_bib.html
  
• Peace Corps Educators pages: (World Wise Schools) http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/index.html
  
• Pennies for Peace: children raise money - yours can too! , a penny at a time, to help fund schools in remote villages: http://www.penniesforpeace.org/home.html
• Public Broadcasting System: www.pbs.org/teachersource/soc_stud.htm
  
• Retanet (Resources for Teaching About the Americas): lesson plans about Latin America, Caribbean culture studies, etc. (middle school and secondary) http://retanet.unm.edu/index.pl?section=1996LPs
  
• Semiahmoo First Nations Wiki project: This example shows how a wiki could be used to enhance the cultural knowledge about a group and its traditions:
  http://www.semiahmooseasonswiki.org/index.php/Main_Page
• United Nations Cyber Schoolbus: http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/index.shtml
• United Nations High Committee on Refugees - Select Publications, then Teaching Tools and follow the links to units and lesson plans for ages 9 and older: http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home
• World Bank Group - for youth, about world finance and cultural issues: http://youthink.worldbank.org/
• World newspapers- World newspapers in English: http://www.world-newspapers.com/
• Zhongwen.com Chinese characters and culture: www.zhongwen.com/m/hello.htm