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Explorer Boxes


Make your teaching about Southeast Asia tangible and real to your students. Check out a steamer trunk full of fascinating objects, maps, outfits, cooking implements, picture books, music, posters, puppets and other cultural artifacts from a specific Southeast Asian country. You can set up your own classroom or school display or use the objects as hands-on props when teaching. If these items need to be shipped to you, we will work with you to select the items, including books and videos/DVDs, most appropriate for your lesson plans or class project.

 

The SEAP Outreach program currently offers Explorer Boxes for the following countries: 
  • Burma:  Karen and Burmese textiles, Karen alphabet posters and other educational posters, maps, decorative banners, maps, magazines, booklets, puppets, currency and old coins and much more.
  • Cambodia: Rice pots and basket, winnow, miniature fish traps, maps, books ranging from political history to dance, CDs, brass figurines of musicians and dancers, silk cloths, Cambodian flag, monkey dance mask and much more. Comes with a detailed Resource Binder and slides.
  • Indonesia: shadow puppets, batiks, traditional toys, books, magazines, audio tapes, maps, magazines, etc. Comes with a detailed Resource Binder and slides. 
In addition, the SEAP Outreach program has materials available for the following countries to be pooled into culture boxes in the near future: 
  • Vietnam: folk paintings, scenic postcards, books and pamphlets, wooden water puppets, currency, paper funeral set, and more.
  • Thailand: maps, CDs, postcards, travel guides, stamps, textiles, tuk tuk, miniature elephant and an extensive set of materials on Thai Buddhism including a monk's robe and alms bowl, chanting booklet and more.

 

To arrange a loan contact:
The Cornell Southeast Asia Program Outreach Office
Tel: (607) 275-9452
FAX: (607) 275-9452
EMAIL: seap-out@cornell.edu