Teachers! Principals! Come see what you would like to have. We're giving away our library to teachers who will use and share our resources.

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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