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Building Global and Cultural Awareness Keep checking the ARTHUR Web site for new games with the Dear Educator: World Neighborhood ® ® has been a proud sponsor of the Libby’s Juicy Juice ® theme. RTHUR since its debut in award-winning PBS series A ium 100% 1996. Like Arthur, Libby’s Juicy Juice, prem juice, is wholesome and loved by kids. itment to a RTHUR’s comm Libby’s Juicy Juice shares A world in which all children and cultures are appreciated. We applaud the efforts of PBS in producingArthur’s quality W orld educational television and hope that Neighborhood will be a valuable resource for teaching children to understand and reach out to one another. Enjoy! Libby’s Juicy Juice Contents About This Guide. 1 Around the Block . 2 Examine diversity within your community Around the World. 6 Everyday Life in Many Cultures: An overview of world diversity Delve Deeper: Explore a specific culture Dear Pen Pal . 10 Build personal connections through a pen pal exchange More Curriculum Connections . 14 Infuse your curriculum with global and cultural awareness Reflections . 15 Reflect on and share what you have learned Resources . 16 All characters and underlying materials (including artwork) copyright by Marc Brown.Arthur, D.W., and the other Marc Brown characters are trademarks of Marc Brown. About This Guide As children reach the early elementary years, their “neighborhood” expands beyond family and friends, and they become aware of a larger, more diverse “We live in a world in world. How are they similar and different from others? What do those which we need to share differences mean? Developmentally, this is an ideal time for teachers and providers to join children in exploring these questions. responsibility. It’s easy to say ‘It’s not my child, not The ARTHUR television series can serve as a partner and a useful resource my community, not my world, in this pursuit. “Dear Adil,” the opening episode this season, introduces the not my problem.’ Then World Neighborhood theme. Arthur becomes pen pals with Adil, a boy who lives in Turkey. The relationship goes through some rocky moments when there are those who see Buster convinces Arthur that everyone in Istanbul rides camels and eats the need and respond. lamb’s eyes, just like in his comic book. Luckily, Arthur and Adil manage to I consider those people sort out the misunderstandings and establish a lively pen pal friendship. my heroes.” The World Neighborhood theme continues to be developed through other episodes, including “Flea to Be You and Me” and “Postcards from Buster.” Mister Rogers, in a 1994 interview For a fuller list, see Resources on page 16. © 1994, Fred Rogers. Used by permission. The activities in this guide invite kids to explore their world neighborhood in concrete, child-centered ways. Kids gather information through personal contact (interviews, surveys, letter exchanges with pen pals) as well as through books, Web sites, and maps. Discussions and thoughtfully selected materials help them question stereotypes and grow more familiar with a Here are some global range of cultural diversity. They share what they learn through art, ways you can use charts, maps, and a variety of written work. this guide. We encourage you to use this guide as a flexible resource. Choose and adapt activities to fit your own interests, curriculum, and time. For example: • Take a tour through the guide. Start with some activities from Around the Block, followed by an activity from each section of Around the World. This allows children to begin with the familiar, then build on their acquired experiences and knowledge. • Personalize your social studies curriculum. Choose activities from Around the World (pages 6–7) to learn more about cultures you are studying. On the ARTHUR Web site, check Arthur’s World Neighborhood “Bibliography for Kids” for books on specific countries: pbskids.org/arthur/grownups/ teacherguides/world • Reinforce key skills. Choose activities that focus on specific skills such as interviewing, mapping, or letter writing. In More Curriculum Connections (page 14), you’ll find additional ideas for exploring math, geography, and language arts topics through a global awareness lens. • Center your activities on a pen pal relationship. See Dear Pen Pal on pages 10–11. Read books to learn more about the country where your pen pals live. Do related art and cooking projects (see More Curriculum Connections, page 14). • Conclude your personalized World Neighborhood study. See Reflections on page 15 for wrap-up activities. 1 Visit ARTHUR online at pbskids.org/arthur Around the Block Explore the commonalities and differences within your class, school, and local community. Alike and Different. Ask: What are some ways all the kids in this oc e class are alike? What are some ways you are different? Chart children’s LLocaall PPen PPaallss responses. Brainstorm questions kids could ask to learn more about each other and the diversity that exists within the classroom, for example: Consider establishing a pen What do you call your grandmother? (Nana, Bobci, etc.) What chores do pal relationship with a nearby you do at home? Help student groups choose questions, conduct surveys, school or program that has and create web charts to show responses. different demographics from your own. Include your pen Class Directory. Create an information form for each child to complete. Items can include name, birthday, three words that describe you, your pals in activities such as favorite thing, your least favorite thing. Provide space for drawing a self- Alike and Different Surveys. portrait. Assemble all the forms in a class directory. Encourage children to browse through the pages, discovering similarities and differences. Partner Interview. Distribute copies of the Venn diagram provided on the ARTHUR Web site (pbskids.org/arthur/grownups/teacherguides/world). Partners will interview each other and record their similarities and differences. Have partners ask each other questions to learn more about one interesting “difference.” Lizzie Luke Model this process with a volunteer. Let children take home a copy of I’m a both have I’m a girl. a sticker boy. the Venn diagram and interview a collection I lost I lost family member or neighborhood 8 teeth. both our names 6 teeth. friend, as well. begin with L Watch Arthur® Videotape* these programs to share with the children. Check pbskids.org/arthur/grownups for local dates and times. “Los Vecinos” is also available on the ARTHUR home video, Arthur’s Family Fun. Los Vecinos. Arthur Postcards from Buster. and his family are looking Arthur, Buster, and Buster’s forward to meeting their dad explore the neighborhoods new neighbors, but they’re of New York City. They watch also a bit nervous. The hip hop dancers, chat with a Molinas are from Ecuador. chalk artist, and visit a Latino Will they have enough in bakery. Buster tapes it all on common to be friends? his new video camera! *You may tape ARTHUR episodes and share them with children for up to one year. 2 ARTHUR’S WORLD NEIGHBORHOOD On the Map. Have children find out where members of their families live or used to live, then attach labels to a large world map, identifying those places. Keep adding to this world map display, writing new labels for pen pals, classroom visitors, and the places kids visit in books. POSTCARDS from Sharing Stories (handout on page 4). Hearing stories about children’s BUSTER lives a generation or two ago helps kids understand that cultures change over time. Distribute the family activity sheet and review directions. A new TV series from PBS KIDS This handout is available in Chinese, Vietnamese, and Tagalog on the Buster’s dad has been hired to ARTHUR Web site: pbskids.org/arthur/grownups/teacherguides/world. Read pilot a Latin rock group on their How My Family Lives in America by Susan Kuklin to spark discussion North American tour and he’s about the rich cultural diversity found within this country. invited Buster to come along! With Buster as your guide, travel across the continent meeting kids Invite family, school staff, or community members Classroom Visitors. and families from diverse cultures. who grew up in another country or a distant part of this country to visit POSTCARDS FROM BUSTER is an your class and share stories about their childhood. Encourage them to bring innovative blend of animation show-and-tell items (photos, objects, music, books). You may want to use and live action The Frensky Star interview activity (page 8) in preparation for the visit. (real kids and adventures). North, South, East, West. Bring in compasses and show children Tune in for how to read them. Help kids tape an ARTHUR compass rose to their desks lots of laughs (provided on the ARTHUR Web site: and learning! pbskids.org/arthur/grownups/teacherguides/world). Have them use a compass to locate magnetic north, Premiering then turn their compass rose in that direction. Lead a Fall 2004 movement activity: Point north. Turn and face west. Mia, walk ten steps south and two steps east. Where are you? Children can give each other similar directions. My Town (handout on page 5). Distribute the activity sheet. Point out the map key and compass rose. Have children work in pairs to answer the questions at the bottom of the page. Give directions orally to other places on the map. (Invite students to do this, as well.) Then have children draw maps of their community. They may want to exchange maps with pen pals. A classroom mom shows children how to play Go, a traditional Asian game. Photo by Lisa Tanner Lisa Photo by 3 Visit ARTHUR online at pbskids.org/arthur 4 A ari CTIVITY SHEET CTIVITY Sh ng Stori s e /Compartam s c e o Dear Grown-Up, o u nt s Please tell a story about when you were a kid.