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The best free cultural & educational media on the web to use in your classroom

This is a website which provides links and resources for new and veteran middle grades teachers. The site provides links and information regarding many topics: teachign strategies, maintaining student-teacher relationships balance, working with students from diverse cultures, newsletter, discussions, publications, etc.

This is a neat website because it is a radio station in Zurich, Switzerland. Looking and listening to the things the website has to offer would be a cool way to allow kids to explore the culture and very unique accent of the swiss people. It's also good language and understanding practice of course.

an organization that supports the Latin American community in Charlotte with volunteer opportunities and cultural events

this is a great website if you ever want to teach out of the country. It helps teachers come up with ideas to teach foreign students or students of different cultures

This site helps teacher, parents, and students cope with diversity in the classroom and how to incorporate different cultures in each lesson.

Bring the hispanic culture to your students!

this is the cultural portal for germany and america. It's a good site to get kids interested in the language and to show them opportunities to study abroad.

Enables students to appreciate the arts through hands on opportunities

This is a really interesting site that is like traveling all over the world, but staying at home. You can use the internet to learn about destinations, remember goals, play games, write a diary and so on. It seems like a strange site for teachers, but I actually think it would be really cool to use in a history class, a social studies class, or a foreign language class. Its like traveling the world, but staying in the same room. They can learn about the countries we're studying about and write some ideas or questions about it on their blog.

hip hop in the classroom

This is a great source for teachers. I have seen this used in Social Studies classrooms. It is a great way for teachers to integrate social studies with language arts and technology. This source allows you and students to create comic strips which can be compiled and printed into a comic book. Students can individually create a comic strop which portrays what they have learned about particular cultures during their studies in class.

Have your students create comic strips in the target language!