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Amazon Interactive. Explore the geography of the Ecuadorian Amazon through online games and activities. Learn about the rainforest and the Quichua people who call it home. Discover the ways in which the Quichua live off the land. Then try your hand at running a community-based ecotourism project
along the Ro Napo. http://www.eduweb.com/amazon.html
Kid's Window. This is a fascinating combination of Japanese/English approach to cultural awareness through bilingual sharing. Part of Stanford University Project/Japan Window Project. http://www.jwindow.net/KIDS/
Lords of the Earth. The Maya/Aztec/Inca Center of the Lords of the Earth Web site deals with the archaeology and anthropology of the Americas. Includes excellent materials on these peoples. http://www.historyserver.org/lords/
Multi Cultural Calendar. If you want to know about scattering beans in Japan in January this is the site to visit. The entries might contain recipes for holiday foods, historical background, significance of the holidays, and the
special ways in which these days are observed. The calendar entries are rich in local customs that perhaps cannot be found as easily in books.
http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/MCC/
NationalGeographic.com Kids! National Geographic's site for young readers is one of the best resources for information on the Net about the world, its people, and its wildlife. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/
POPClock Projection. A daily update of the U.S. population by the U.S. Census Bureau! For more information go to the U.S. Census Home Page at
http://http://www.census.gov/. http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html
Sounds of the World's Animals. It's bow-wow in English, but wanwan in Japanese. Learn how people describe the sounds animals make in thirteen languages. http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/animals/animals.html
Voices of Youth. Children across the world have their say on current events on this site sponsored by UNICEF with a fine section on "Children and Work."
http://www.unicef.org/voy/
The Web of Culture. The Web of Culture describes the whole world as 100 people and offers ways to communicate cross-culturally.
http://www.webofculture.com/home/community.html
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