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Amazon children perform traditional dance during festival. 

Amazon children perform a traditional dance during a holiday festival. This photo is from one of several new PowerPoints recently posted on OneWorld Classroom's Electronic Cultural Exchange Library.

 
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New Electronic Cultural Exchange Library Submissions

Students at Pu Tai performing during a festival.
Students in Taiwan performing during a festival. 

We have recently posted the following submissions on the PowerPoint Express page of OneWorld Classrooms' FREE Electronic Cultural Exchange Library:
 
Holidays in the Amazon -- This PowerPoint features Amazon Rain Forest middle and elementary school students sharing information about holidays they celebrate. (Macas, Campana Cocha and Rukullacta, Ecuador)  
 
Amazon students celebrating Dia Civil.
Amazon students celebrating Dia Civil.
 
Our School and Our Culture -- Learn how middle school students in Taiwan celebrate the Chinese New Year and see what life is like at their school. (Putai Junior High School, Putai, Taiwan)
 
A student at Pu Tai celebrates the Chinese New Year.
A student at Pu Tai celebrates the Chinese New Year.
 
Tour of Qingzhuhu -- Take a tour of the Qingzhuhu Foreign Language School in Hunan Province, China, hosted by fourth grade students. This PowerPoint is in English with strategically embedded Chinese characters. (Changsha, Hunan Province, China).
 
Students at Qingzhuhu perform an acrobatics routine.
Students at Qingzhuhu perform an acrobatics routine.

Tour of Pinecrest Elementary -- Take a tour of Pinecrest Elementary School in Sylacauga, Alabama, hosted by 3rd-5th grade students. (Sylacauga, Alabama, USA)
 
We will also soon be posting PowerPoints exploring winter holidays in the USA, created by 5th graders at Germantown Academy in Fort Washington, PA and 7/8th graders at Camel's Hump Middle School in Richmond, VT.
 
Special thanks to Peace Corps Volunteers Ryan Young, Mary Fassnacht and Sadie Funk (Ecuadorian Amazon); and teachers Ming Ying Chen (Pu Tai), Fred Fu (Qingzhuhu), Phyllis Culp (Pinecrest), Phy Chauveau (Germantown) and Carol McNair (Camel's Hump) for their excellent contributions!

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