Teachers, students, librarians, and people who work in multi-cultural education in informal settings, you don´t need to travel to use hands-on materials or stories from around the world. Just borrow from our free multi-cultural resource library!

our developing world(odw)´s free lending resource library taps all learning styles and helps develop emotional intelligence as well.

Hands-on artifacts can´t be shipped, please call for an appointment to borrow, free of charge for one month, call us at (408) 379-4431. Click here for a Map and Directions to odw. We can e-mail it to you if we have a story or lesson plan on computer. Otherwise, please send a self addressed, stamped envelope and $1 for shipping costs, and we will send it to you.

• By using stories on the same theme from a variety of cultures, the universal humanness of all people becomes apparent.
• By using textiles and graphics from different cultures to teach shapes, the world expands for children.
• By using hand held artifacts, kinesthetic learners open to new learning.
• Principles of physics can be introduced by toys and musical instruments made in various countries. For example, the pendulum, balance, high and low sounds and amplification.
• Materials from newly emerging nations make the concept of nation-building come alive. Call us for details! Tell us what you're teaching and we'll give you a list of what we have to help your classroom come alive! We have age and subject appropriate lesson plans and companion materials that meet California k-12 educational standards and posters to borrow.

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