Weiner Elementary School, an Arkansas School of Innovation, has an extensive Nurturing Culture section on their gifted/talented website. The school holds daily schoolwide assemblies focused on expanding students' worldviews. The Nurturing Culture tab includes resources used for place, musician, artist, and character word of the week.
These two non-profit organizations offer a wealth of student-centered, global-focused service projects and programs.
Roots and Shoots is an organization created by Jane Goodall dedicated to giving students agency to address global problems. It provides many service learning projects particularly centered on the environment.
Heifer International is dedicated to ending hunger and poverty throughout the world. They have several programs for students in different grade levels along with free downloadable resources.
These two picture books are useful for helping students of all ages learn about living conditions around the world.
Material World: A Global Family Portrait Families from around the world are photographed outside of their homes surrounded by their possessions giving students an excellent visualization of the variety of homes and differing living standards.
Hungry Planet: What the World Eats Families from around the world are photographed in their homes surrounded by a typical week's worth of food in their diet providing students an excellent visualization of the variety of diets and foods eaten in different countries.