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Global
TeachNet program
A comprehensive set of links for global educators—including
electronic mailing lists, summer programs for teachers, online
networking, and teacher education.
Stanford Program on
International and Cross-Cultural Education
Offers free multidisciplinary lesson plans for all grade
levels on international themes, including analyzing conflict
and international trade.
University of Denver's
Center for Teaching International Relations
Offers curriculum materials for its World Affairs Challenge,
an academic program for secondary school students to devise
solutions to real-world problems.
International
Institute for Global Education
Offers graduate degrees in global education.
American Forum for Global
Education
Offers teaching materials with a global perspective and publishes
the bimonthly Issues in Global Education.
Fulbright
Teacher and Administrator Exchange Program
Provide opportunities for teacher exchanges.
Global Links
Provide opportunities for teacher exchanges.
The National Consortium
for Teaching About Asia
Conducts inservice seminars and travel-study tours for K-12
educators.
The United Nations
Cyberschoolbus
Has data on countries of the United Nations and helpful
curriculum materials, including units on peacemaking and cities
of the world.
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Teacher's
Guide to International Collaboration on the Internet
Carefully mapped out, this comprehensive site offers reviews
and international links for cross-cultural interaction and
project work.
ePALS Classroom Exchange
Links to interesting collaborative projects in social studies,
music, science, math, the arts, and languages.
Rome's Global Junior Challenge
Links to interesting collaborative projects in social studies,
music, science, math, the arts, and languages.
Friendship
Through Education,
11 organizations combine their efforts to help educators
and students find ways to send letters and e-mails, interact
online, and participate in projects and student exchange programs.
Coverdell World
Wise Schools
Students can communicate directly with Peace Corps Volunteers
in the field.
The International Education
and Resource Network
An online telecommunications network that connects more than
4,000 schools in nearly 100 countries. Schools sign up to
participate in its online, interactive forums and to work
with others on projects designed by online participants.
The Global SchoolNet Foundation
The site's Internet Projects Registry is a clearinghouse
for projects that you can bring to your classroom. Students
can collaborate on projects, take online field trips, and
use videoconferencing software to connect with other students
around the world. Teachers can share learning experiences
in online discussion forums and find helpful resources for
planning professional development.
Model
United Nations Program
This site features hands-on, simulated experiences in working
together to make decisions about timely global issues.
Foreign Policy Association
A Global Decisions Global Affairs Education program that
includes discussions on foreign policy topics. Students can
take quizzes, respond to informal ballots, and share opinions
on global issues with peers around the world.
Global Learning and Observations
to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE)
A worldwide, school-based science and education program that
gives students opportunities to take measurements (of the
atmosphere or soils, for example) and to report their data
through the Internet to a student data archive.
Center for Improved Engineering
and Science Education
Hosts international collaborative science projects. In the
Sun Times project, for example, students can join their peers
in schools around the world as they figure out how proximity
to the equator affects average daily temperatures and hours
of sunlight.
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