Consulate's Office as a Resource From Nancy Kach, a seventh grad English teacher on the 7 Green Team at Dover Middle School in Dover, New Hampshire: "Our team tries to teach interdisciplinary units as often as possible. Our latest venture has been a unit on Jap[an. During a planning session we called our local Japanese Consulate, hoping to receive some information. What we ended up with was everything we needed and more! Within a week of our first contact, we received an entire interdisciplinary curriculum (including books, magazines etc.), maps, posters, lists of available videos theycould provide for us, books, magazines, AND had been told a guest speaker would be provided for us by the Consulate's office! The wealth of materials sent to us was overwhelming and is greatly appreciated! Best of all, the Consulate's office will also provide us with class sets of the extremely inofrmative and beautifully presented books on Japan for use in this unit. We were also provided with copies of a Japanese magazine (in English) similar in style to Life Magazine of which we can receive multiple copies! This office has proven to be an invaluable resource, and we will be contacting the Consulate's office of the other countries we study to receive interesting and very up to date resources."