In a special project with Sister Cities of Louisville, Jefferson County Public School educators and Bellarmine University graduate students designed and sequenced activities and lessons for teachers and their students for Sister Cities culture kits. These culture kits include cultural artifacts and resources that are loaned to schools for classroom use to add authenticity to global studies, international economics, geography and cultural studies. Each lesson is aligned to Kentucky Core Content and includes a rubric for evaluating student learning.

Funding support for this International Showcase Project was provided to the Kentucky Council on Economic Education by their national affiliate from a grant from the US Department of Education, in coordination with the US Department of State. The Kentucky Council’s project proposal with Sister Cities of Louisville was selected from a national pool of applicants.