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Like other students taking this course, at least one, I am a substitute teacher and do not have access to the online media resources. I do not have a username or password. I did attempt to go to their website but failed for the previous reason stated. I also called ProQuest for assistance but they were already closed. If I could utilize one of the AEA Online Media resources I would use CultureGrams. I want to do a unit on life in Afghanistan. I am a Persian Gulf War veteran and learned a lot of information about how Saudi Arabians lived during my 6 months of service in their world. I believe during a unit on how other people around the world live would be very interesting to 3rd graders. First I would utilize the Kids Edition of CultureGrams. The Kids edition is used for upper elementary and middle school students. The first area of Afghanistan life myself and my students would research would be their culture. Just a couple things we would research would be goals and values of their society. Next, I would want my students to collect information in order to complete a comparison and contrast of “life of the kids”.  This way they can see how different or alike kids of other places are. Finally, I would want to have someone like a soldier that has served over in Afghanistan come in and talk to the students. This individual would tell what they visualized as far as how the Afghans lived after or before the war began. They would give their perspective. No gory details pertaining to anything else would be talked about. Of course, I’m sure I would have to get the individual approved to speak.