K-12 Educational Resources
Educational Resources & Lesson Plans
In-Depth Issues (Facing the Future)
Resources
- BBC NEWS headline stories on world issues and country and topical information
- Calendars Through the Ages calendars from different cultures and historical periods with explanations.
- Center for Global Studies curriculum units: Battle of Metaphors (2006) and Russian Energy in the Modern World (2007).
- The Choices Program curriculum units and online resources prepared by the Choices for the 21st Century Education Program at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies.
- Facing the Future teaching and learning global issues and sustainability such as environment, population, conflict, poverty, consumption, health, and climate change
- Oxfam Education resources on education for global citizenship, including Global Citizenship: The Handbook for Primary Teaching, a comprehensive guide to teaching the existing curriculum in a way that promotes social justice and equity.
- Global Education Checklist article and checklist for educators for assessing global competency in schools
- The Globalist daily online magazine on global economy, politics, and culture, including cross-cultural research on globalization topics
- Globalization101.org information and interdisciplinary learning opportunities to promote a greater understanding of globalization
- Great Decisions: In the Classroom materials developed by the Foreign Policy Association include briefing books, teaching guides, “headline” series on current topics in international affairs
- National Geographic EdNet resources for the classroom, professional development opportunities, discussion communities, and special offers
- National Geographic Geography Action! lesson plans and activities, games, music, teacher forums and events on culture, physical geography, and contemporary issues
- New Internationalist magazine that offers a radical, activist, campaigning stance on a range of world issues, and has more than 75,000 subscribers worldwide,
- New York Times Learning Network daily lesson plans for grades 6-12, previous lessons are archived, and the News Snapshot for grades 3-5 helps students explore current events
- Marco Polo/Thinkfinity content partnership offering discipline-specific, standards-based web sites with teacher resources, lesson plans, and interactive tools searchable by keywords, subjects, resource type, and grade
- Peace Corps for Educators: Lesson Plans lesson plans about cultures and countries around the world, free cross-cultural publications, videos, stories, folk tales, and access to classroom speakers searchable by grade, country, region, or subject area
- Population in Perspective curriculum resource developed by Hampshire College challenges students to think critically about national and international population issues with teaching ideas, background readings, up-to-date facts and figures, provocative quotes. for high school, college, and community educators.
- Portals to the World links to authoritative, in-depth information about nations and other areas of the world selected by Library of Congress Area Specialists
- TakingITGlobal social networking site for young people to access information and get involved in improving their local and global communities
- Teacher to Teacher Initiative supported by the U.S. Department of Education offers professional development training opportunities, digital workshops and online updates for sharing slides and handouts, classroom activities, and assessments
- To Be A Refugee This teaching guide is for children 9-12 years old and comes with a video about child refugees, a booklet with pages to reproduce and four DVDs with a slideshow, information about refugee education and resettlement, and refugee rights.
- UN Cyber School Bus promotes education about international issues and the United Nations, and produces teaching materials and activities for educational use at primary, intermediate and secondary school levels and for training teachers
- UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization/Culture resources on world culture and heritage with access to various publications
- UNICEF The State of the World’s Children (SOWC) the report and interactive website on critical issues related to the health, education and human rights of the world’s children
- United Nations This link will direct you to more resources by the United Nations divisions
- Women in World History includes over 200 primary sources, case studies by teachers, lesson plans, and document-based questions
- World Affairs Councils of America (WACA) is a network of councils that focus on international affairs and world affairs and also provide educational resources for teachers and students
- World Factbook provides in-depth country profiles with information on geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues; includes maps of major regions and links to other geopolitical and geographical information
- World History Matters provides guides and strategies for analyzing images, maps, newspapers, and other primary sources, includes case studies (written by teachers) from Hammurabi's Code to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- World Studies offers teaching resources about countries/continents, foreign languages and world histories
