The recent The Wonder Pets Save the Bengal Tiger television special and accompanying book Save the Bengal Tiger! (Wonder Pets!) and Global Wonders India DVD have been great audio visual resources for introducing our youngest students to the culture of India. The Wonder Pets Save the Bengal Tiger is a re-telling of the folk tale of a mouse pulling a thorn from a lions paw, thus proving the worth of even the smallest animals. The website has games and puzzles related to the story that cover the themes of friendship and teamwork and the vocabulary of the program. Global Wonders India is a DVD that introduces elements of Indian culture through the story of a play date between friends of differing cultures. The music and vocabulary reviews are especially well done.
We are art teachers in Baltimore City Public Schools. Worldview is an arts integration program that we created to introduce our elementary and middle school students to world cultures and to lead students in making connections between their lives and the culture of study.
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