Praise for NPCA's Kids Around the World Website

The November/December issue of Social Education from the National Council for the Social Studies lauded NPCA’s Kids Around the World website (http://www.katw.org) in their regular "surfing the net" column by C. Frederick Risinger on "Crossing Borders and Building Bridges Using the Internet".

Here are the nice things he had to say: 

"This is a really neat site. Teachers and students can find out what it's like to 'go to school in Bosnia,' or 'celebrate your birthday in Benin,' or 'fly a kite in the Dominican Republic.' Kids Around the World uses the Internet to introduce elementary school-age children in the United States to the lives of children of the same age in developing countries around the world. Students can work individually, in groups, or as a class, and hear interviews, see pictures of homes, friends, and schools of, for example, seven-year-old Steven in Mozambique or ten-year-old Zdravko in Bosnia. The site includes lesson plans and activities for grades K-5. It doesn't help set up a true pen pal or partner school program; but it's an excellent way to have students get a sense of what it would be like to be a child in a different part of the world."

Thanks!