CULTURE

www.culturalorientation.net

"The Cultural Orientation Resource (COR) Center provides important orientation resources for refugee newcomers and service providers throughout the United States and overseas."

www.theIRC.org

The International Rescue Commmittee has a 70 year history of refugee relief, respect and renewal.

http://www.mwls.co.uk/inthols07free.htm

2007 International Holidays spreadsheet

http://www.seeamerica.org/

This site has information on tourism for each of the 50 states.

http://ph.infoplease.com/

Infoplease.com is a site with very interesting information on various topics including history, government, biographies, arts, business, society and culture, health and science, and the daily almanac. There is also an atlas, a dictionary, and an encyclopedia.

http://www.irs.gov/app/understandingTaxes/index.jsp

This site contains lesson plans for "Understanding Taxes"

http://brj.asu.edu/content/vol26_no2/pdf/ART13.PDF

"Crosscultural Differences in Learning Styles of Secondary English Learners"

This article reports the results of a study of the learning styles of English learners (Armenian, Hmong, Korean, Mexican, and Vietnamese) in secondary schools. But it also includes discussions of other studies of learning styles in various cultures.

http://www.ericdigests.org/1996-4/hispanic.html

This digest identifies cultural values that may impact the learning processes of Hispanic-American students, reviews the research on the learning styles of Hispanic-American students, and discusses the implications of this research for counseling and teaching Hispanic youth.

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/bh_hunt_quiz.html

Here is information about Black History Month, including a Black history month quiz.

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/sampler.html

This site has information about Chinese beliefs that incorporate the reader - for example, finding your sign and its significance in the Chinese zodiac.