Discover! Excite! Connect!

Coverdell World Wise Schools, a Peace Corps program,

 strives to help U.S. schoolchildren better understand

and appreciate the diverse cultures and issues of the world.
Connect With a Volunteer

Correspondence Match

Communicate with a Peace Corps Volunteer overseas 

through an exchange of letters, artifacts, photos, and 

artwork. Your class will be matched with a Volunteer 

currently serving in Asia, Latin America, Eastern 

Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean, or the 

Pacific Islands. Visit the World Wise Schools website 

to download an enrollment form.

Building Bridges: A Peace 

Corps Classroom Guide to 

Cross-Cultural Understanding 

Designed for easy adaptation, this book contains short 

exercises and activities that 

build cross-cultural awareness, respect, and tolerance 

in your classroom. Activities 

reflect the Understanding by 

Design curriculum framework. This guide 

was developed in partnership with the National 

Geographic Society Education Foundation. (6–12)

Voices From the Field: Reading and Writing 

About the World, Ourselves, and Others 

Essays by Peace Corps Volunteers are accompanied 

by standards-based lesson plans that enhance 

students’ understanding of other cultures. (6–12)

Crossing Cultures

With the Peace Corps 

Sixteen Volunteers write entertaining, eye-opening accounts of their 

service, each accompanied by 

easy-to-use teaching suggestions 

for grades 6–12. Activities are 

linked with national standards.

Uncommon Journeys: Peace Corps Adventures 

Across Cultures 

Essays by Peace Corps 

Volunteers convey the challenges, struggles, and triumphs of working among 

other peoples in distant 

locations. The selections are supported by 

standards-based lesson 

plans for use in grades 

6 through 12.

Bring a returned Peace Corps Volunteer into your classroom! We will connect you with a speaker who lives in 

your area. To share in a Peace Corps Volunteer’s stories 

and expertise in culture, health, environment, business, 

and another language—or if you are a returned Volunteer wanting to share your experience—contact us at 

wwsinfo@peacecorps.gov.

Speakers Match

Publications (pdf versions are downloadable free at www.peacecorps.gov/wws/publications)
www.peacecorps.gov/wws

Access hundreds of stories and free lesson plans based 

on accounts of Peace Corps Volunteers. Lessons can 

easily be integrated in language arts, social studies, 

health, math, science, service-learning, environment, 

and geography classes.

Bring the world to your students’ desktops with our 

multimedia center. Listen to stories, subscribe to 

podcasts, and view slide shows and videos to make 

countries around the world come alive in class. World 

Wise Schools provides new and engaging activities for 

your students through cutting-edge technology. 

Find tools on the World Wise Schools website to plan, 

develop, perform, and evaluate service-learning projects. 

Stories and tips from Peace Corps Volunteers will inspire 

your students to make a difference in their school and 

community. 

A multidisciplinary unit examines the importance of 

water in all aspects of life and offers 20 standards-based 

online learning units with photos and stories from more 

than 90 Peace Corps Volunteers in Africa.

Our online educational game 

allows students to play the 

role of a Peace Corps Volunteer working to help solve 

problems in a virtual village. 

Teacher resources accompany the challenge (www.

peacecorps.gov/wws/educators/enrichment/wanzuzu). 

How about timely news and lesson plans conveniently 

delivered to your inbox each month? Each issue has a 

theme linked to lesson plans, stories, and activities on 

the World Wise Schools website and other sites. 

Stories and Lesson Plans

Multimedia Center

Service Learning

Water in Africa

E-Newsletter Virtual Volunteers
Connect your classroom with a Peace Corps Volunteer serving abroad.

Download free first-person accounts from Peace Corps Volunteers and 

related standards-based lesson plans. 

View narrated slide shows and videos online, and hear Volunteers tell 

their stories through podcasts.

Sign up to find former Peace Corps Volunteers who will speak 

to your students.

Get up-to-date teaching ideas in our e-mailed newsletter.

Implement service-learning projects.

We Can Help!

Coverdell World Wise Schools • Peace Corps Headquarters • 1111 20th Street NW, Washington, DC 20526

Website: www.peacecorps.gov/wws • E-mail: wwsinfo@peacecorps.gov • Phone: 800.424.8580, ext. 1450