PLANET TOLERANCE
Read folktales from Turkey -- Eat, My Fine Coat! and from Cuba -- The Barking Mouse. There is live narration and text to accompany the story. Contribute pictures, poems, or short statements to the "One World" mural which is also available in Spanish. Explore the origins of common words from the classroom, the zoo, and a picnic by pointing to a object or a culture name. Create a storybook all about yourself and a new friend at school.
MEXICAN FLAG JIGSAW & AZTEC PYRAMID CHICHEN ITZA
How fast can you put together the flag of México? Can you see the eagle with the snake in its mouth upon a cactus -- the famous symbol of Mexican culture? See the impressive pyramid -- Chichen Itza -- made by the Aztecs long ago, recently named as a "Newest Wonder of the World."
GLOBAL CHILDREN'S ART GALLERY
View the 500 pieces of original artwork done by children all over the world. Submit your own art to the gallery. A magnet can be made of a favorite for a small fee.
CULINARY WORLD TOUR
Parents and children cooking together is such an adventure. Expand your horizons by creating Pollo Loco (Crazy Chicken) and mango soup from Latin America. Enjoy other specialities from all parts of our planet.
RAINFOREST DONATION SITE
Two acres of rainforest disappear every minute. Enter this website and donate land to be preserved as rainforest. Don't forget to click on the green box.
PUZZLES OF FRENCH LANDMARKS
Put together jigsaw puzzles of famous landmarks in France -- L'Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre Museum Pyramid, Paris at Night, and a stained glass ceiling at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris.
PUZZLES FROM COSTA RICA
First, click on one of the fifteen photos from beautiful Costa Rica. There are plants, animals, people, and places from this Central American country. Then you will see two images. The one on top will be a tile puzzle. The one below it is the original photo. The goal is for you to create the same photo again. To do this, just click the tile next to the tile with the number on it that is keeping track of your time. See how fast you can go. Have fun!
CREATIVE CONNECTIONS INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITS
Learn about the world and its many cultures that is outside your local neighborhood by viewing any one of seven art exhibits. Children of all ages drew or painted these wonderful pictures from between 1996 and 2002.
WORLD PLAY TOYS
Celebrate children's creativity through the toys they make. Learn about children's toys and their play by exploring the kind of child-centered creativity that flourishes in every community from New York to New Zealand. Children from every corner of the world use bits and pieces of wire, scraps of cloth, bottle caps, paper, objects from nature, plastic bottles, corks, and other discarded items as their imaginations come alive to form their own versions of playthings that uniquely express their culture. Now, think how to create a unique toy of your own from materials around the house.
MIX AND MATCH THE MASTER PAINTINGS
Recreate master paintings or make your own compositions by moving the elements on the canvas. Choose from masterpieces by Pablo Picasso and Juan Miró from Spain, Diego Rivera of México, Vincent Van Gogh of the Netherlands, and Rene Magritte of Belgium. Click on the "Learn More!" button to see the original painting and facts about the painter.
MR. PICASSOHEAD
Make a face in the style of the great Spanish painter Pablo Picasso. Drag features like eyebrows and a mouth toward the canvas to create an original drawing. You can even add your signature in the same handwriting as the master. And ... you can e-mail your "original" to someone special -- like your Spanish teacher!
VOYAGER SPACECRAFT GREETING
Listen to the greetings that the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft send out in space in fifty-five languages.
DON'T GROSS OUT THE WORLD!
Learn about how table manners change depending on the country where you are eating.
Have fun learning that "right" in the US is "wrong" in other places.
MAKE A WORLD FLAG PUZZLE
Choose a country and have fun making its flag with puzzle pieces.
LLAMA PICTURE PUZZLES
There are three levels for the puzzle -- easy, hard, and complex. Then read information about this interesting mammal from South America, related to the camel, that is becoming a popular farm animal in North America.
CHILDREN AT PLAY
Look at photos of children from all over the world at play on wheels, in water, flying kites -- and more
TIME FOR KIDS: GO PLACES -- EXPLORE THE WORLD!
Take a virtual visit to any (or all) of the following countries -- Egypt, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, China, India, Japan, Russia, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand, England, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Canada, Hawaii, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru. In addition there are adventures in Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico (part of the United States), too.
THE EURO
Here is an activity page about the new money used in most of Europe called the euro.
