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American Forum for Global Education www.globaled.org
Promoting the education of our nation's youth for responsible citizenship in an increasingly interconnected and rapidly changing world.
AskAsia: Asia Society
Asia Society is a non-profit, non-partisan, public educational organization dedicated to increasing American understanding of Asia and broadening the dialogue between Americans and Asians.
Asia EdNet
Online services and professional development in using the Internet to support the studies of Asia .
Asia Educational Media Service
The Asian Educational Media Service helps educators find and use media materials (including documentary films, feature films, CD-ROMs, and slide units) for teaching about the cultures and peoples of Asia . To receive the AEMS FREE quarterly newsletter contact aems@uiuc.edu or 888-828-AEMS.
Africa Studies Center of the University of Pennsylvania
The Africa Studies Center offers resources on African countries, current events, maps, flags, projects, travel and K-12 learning electronic guide complete with lesson plans.
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Brown University , CHOICES Program
www.choices.edu
CHOICES is a program of the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University.Choices' curricular resources and instructional programs bring international public policy issues to life.
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CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
www.ciaonet.org
CIAO is a full-text online database for political science, area studies, diplomatic history, international law and business, policy information, and country analysis. CIAO also supports Model UN and other simulations as well as serving as a textbook for high school, undergraduate, and graduate/postgraduate courses; also as the reserve room; it is the trusted source for research, lecture preparation, and reference.
Note: This is a paid service and only allows for a trial period at no charge.
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Education About Asia Magazine
EEA works to enhance your understanding of Asia, enabling you to bring timely and relevant information about Asia to your students. Published 3 times annually, subscription cost is $18/year, outside the US $22/year.
Educators for Social Responsibility
ESR focuses on developing developmentally appropriate ways of discussing global issues with students.
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Florida Geographic Alliance
A large index of world and US geography lesson plans.
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The Global Education Network is a web directory of global education links supported by the Canadian International Development Agency. Students, teachers, and others looking for activities and educational materials dealing with a specific topic of importance to global education can open a section of the directory from the five categories (alternative media, development, environment, human rights, and peace) and find a variety of organizations providing help in that area.
Global Educators Program Information on curriculum, teaching strategies, sister school and/or telecommunication linkages, teaching/education in a foreign country, fluency in a foreign language through immersion, internationalizing the curriculum, multicultural/global education, teaching ESL/EFL in another country, etc.
Global SchoolNet
Encouraging online partnerships with schools, communities and businesses to provide collaborative learning activities that prepare students for the workforce and help them to become responsible global citizens.
Great Decisions, Global Education Program
www.greatdecisions.org
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Human Rights Resource Center at the University of Minnesota
www.humanrightsandpeacestore.org
Currently offers 386 titles of materials for grades PreK-12. They are listed by various topics and age categories for user friendliness.
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IEARN
International Education and Resource Network: is a non-profit that enables young people to use the Internet and other new technologies to engage in collaborative educational projects.
Intercultural Email Classroom Connection
IECC is a free service to help teachers link with partners in other cultures and countries for email classroom pen-pal and other project exchanges.
The University of Denver , International Studies Schools Association
http://www.du.edu/issa/curriculumMat.html
This website contains lesson plans which can be downloaded, free of charge, as well as curriculum units which can be purchased.In addition, there are resources for foreign language teachers.
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National Clearinghouse for U.S.-Japan Studies www.indiana.edu/~japan/
Website contains information about lesson books available for purchase, as well as a lesson plan database for U.S.-Japan Studies.
Deai, The Japan Forum
The Lives of Seven Japanese High School Students illuminates the personalities and daily lives of seven Japanese high school students through photographs and text
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The Korean Society
www.koreasociety.org �Teaching More About Korea� curriculum binder.The binder can be purchased for $10.It is an excellent resource.See website for binder Table of contents and ordering information.
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National Geographic On-line Magazine Index
Free access to our online magazine index, which contains over 23,000 bibliographic records, one for each National Geographic magazine article, map, video, etc., published by the Society.Along with the National Geographic magazine (1888-to-date), the following Society magazines and products are indexed:Adventure magazine, Traveler magazine, Kids magazine (formerly World), Explorer! for the classroom, maps, videos, education products, and more.
Newsweek Education Program
http://www.newsweekeducation.com/
The newsweek site has many resources for teachers.Multiple, downloadable lesson plans and curriculum units.
National Consortium for Teaching about Asia
www.nctasia.org
The National Consortium for Teaching about Asia, is funded by the Freeman Foundation, and is a multi-year initiative to encourage and facilitate teaching and learning about Asia in world history, geography, social studies, and literature courses. NCTA also sponsors the following programs: Professional Development Seminars which provide 30 hours of in-depth study on Chinese, Japanese and Korean history, geography and culture. Seminar Study Tours which are a two to three week period of travel within Asian countries to enrich and increase knowledge of East Asia. Sustained Enrichment which provides workshops, field trips, and conferences to reinforce and enhance classroom expertise.
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PBS Teacher Source 4,000 + free lessons and activities
PBS Frontline World Internationally oriented documentary videos. Perfect for the classroom. 18-30 minutes in length. Can be downloaded from their website for classroom viewing.
PBS Wide Angle The WIDE ANGLE Global Classroom offers lesson plans and activities for middle school and high school teachers. All episodes of WIDE ANGLE may be taped and used for educational purposes for one year from the original date of broadcast.
Primary Source
Primary Source aims to provide humanities teachers with not only historical and cultural content, but also the grasp and enthusiasm for the subject needed to engage students to study the diverse, complex world in which we live. Workshops and seminars to develop expertise particularly in African American history, Colonial and 19th Century American history, Ancient and Modern China, and Ancient Civilizations, and we have additional content resources and materials in our Library.
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The Resource Center of the Americas' online Bookstore offers a wide collection of books, videos, and music from and about the countries and cultures of the Americas. Materials are listed by country/region and
also by topic, such as agriculture, civil rights, globalization, and trade. Education curriculum resources, mostly for grades eight and up, are also available that focus on various topics ranging from child labor to international tourism to Central American children. To browse the Center's offerings, go to http://www.americas.org and click on "Bookstore."
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Saudi Aramco WORLD magazine
www.saudiaramco.com
The WORLD is a full glossy-color magazine published twice monthly for those interested in the cultures of the Arab and Muslim worlds, the history, geography and economy of Saudi Arabia, and their connections with the West. The subscription is FREE to classroom teachers. Write to Saudi Aramco World, Box 469008, Escondido, California 92046-9008.
Save the Children has issued a new report on the best and worst places in the world to be a mother. The report, available at http://www.savethechildren.org , focuses in 2004 on the tragic consequences of early motherhood. More than 1 million infants - and an estimated 70,000 adolescent mothers - die each year in the developing world because young girls are marrying and having children before they are physically ready for parenthood.
Scholastic curriculum materials available for purchase
Social Studies Schools Services
www.socialstudies.co A comprehensive website and catalog of educational resources
South Asia www.teachingsouthasia.org
Focusing on the countries of Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, this site features a multimedia collection of primary and secondary source materials, narratives, literature, poetry, maps and video clips designed to supplement and enrich existing classroom resources.
The Southern Center for International Studies, World in Transition Series
http://www.southerncenter.org/
A non-profit educational institution based in Atlanta, Georgia. The primary mission of SCIS is to internationalize the thinking of the American public. They have created the World in Transition Series which is available for purchase.
Stanford University, SPICE Program
http://spice.stanford.edu/
Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Studies. Site contains both free lesson plans, as well as curriculum units which can be purchased.
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Teachers First is a collection of lessons and web resources for K-12 classroom teachers, their students, and even students' families. Materials are arranged by subject area and grade level, making it easy to locate lesson plans and associated web resources quickly.
Teaching Tolerance
Teaching Tolerance is a national education project dedicated to helping teachers foster equity, respect, and understanding in the classroom and beyond. Semiannual 'Teaching Tolerance' magazine, an excellent resource free to teachers who request it.
Texas A&M University, WorldRoom
Located on the Texas A&M campus, adjacent to the Bush Presidential Library and Museum, The International Center Southwestern Bell World Room sponsors intensive workshops for teachers and educators and provides a variety of educational programs for Texas school students. Teaching resources such as lesson plans and Internet resources are also available on this web site. http://worldroom.tamu.edu
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UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
curriculum materials and information
University of North Alabama, Department of Geography
contains about 40 geography lesson plans
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WhoYouShouldKnow
www.whoshouldyouknow.com
WhoYouShouldKnow.com provides free weekday e-mails that highlight a specific country and a significant leader from that country. Each weekday WhoYouShouldKnow.com sends you and your students a fee teaser e-mail. The teaser is a brief statement about that day's profiled leader. Information is presented in a rountine and easy-tounderstand format. The Web site may be used to facilitate discussions about leaders and countries that have particular interest to you and your students. This site was designed specifically with the NCSS curriculum standards as a foundation.
World Affairs Council of America
A number of the Councils have lesson plans and resources on their webpages.These sites contain high quality lesson plans, available free of charge, created by secondary educators.
Cleveland
http://www.ccwa.org/eduresources.htm
Pittsburgh
http://www.worldaffairspittsburgh.org/EdMain.html
Stamford, Connecticut
http://www.worldaffairsforum.org/education/edulinks.htm
Washington, D.C.
http://www.worldaffairsdc.org/main.asp?sid=32
World Press Review
Drawing upon publications around the globe, and a network of correspondents in dozens of countries, worldpress.org illuminates the issues that barely see the light of day in the mainstream press. The World Press Review website contains a special section for students and educators. For lesson plans, class discussion topics, syllabi, research resources, education news, primary sources and international perspectives on current events, go to http://www.worldpress.org/edu.htm.
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Xpeditions
From the National Geographic Society, this site features an interactive geography museum with exhibits keyed to the National Geography Standards, a collection of standards-based lesson plans, special interactive Family Xpeditions, links to outstanding geography sites, resources for teachers and parents, and a global atlas of outline maps specially designed for print out.
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