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Obejctives:
 * 1) Students will learn to appreciate the history, culture significance and the rules of different games around the world.
 * 2) They will conclude that every culture has leisure activities to maintain a healthy mind in a healthy body.
 * 3) Students will understand that there are culture universals.

Materials:
 * 1) Online Resources:
 * [|Games Around the World]
 * Books related to games from different cultures in the world

Subjects:
 * 1) Language Arts
 * 2) P.E.
 * 3) Math

Activities Check this out: [|Mathematical Games] [|Multicultural Games] [|International Games] [|Indigenous Games] [|Traditional Games] [|More Games Around the World]
 * 1) Brainstorming: Ask students to name as many multicultural games as they know.
 * 2) Ask students to conduct a research about a particular game and to write a 2 to 3 page report. Their report should include at least 10 facts about the country in which the game was originated, who invented it, the game's history, cultural significance and rules. Extra activities: You can ask the students to write another in which they state similarities and differences to other games in our culture - You can ask the students to create a diorama or a 3-dimensional representation of the game - P.E.: You can ask the students to demonstrate how the game is played.