Activities, Lessons and Unit Plans
to Support Global Education
to Support Global Education
Simple Strategies to Bring Global Competencies to Your Classroom
+ Teach geography.
+ Include global connections in your lessons.
+ Expose students to global issues and current events.
+ Teach students about other cultures.
+ Utilize literature with multicultural perspectives.
+ Analyze issues from multiple perspectives.
+ Provide opportunities for students to compare themselves to students from other cultures to see commonalities.
+ Include global connections in your lessons.
+ Expose students to global issues and current events.
+ Teach students about other cultures.
+ Utilize literature with multicultural perspectives.
+ Analyze issues from multiple perspectives.
+ Provide opportunities for students to compare themselves to students from other cultures to see commonalities.
+ Encourage students to consider the following questions:
Why should this topic matter to me?
Why should this topic matter to my community?
Why should this topic matter to the world?
Why should this topic matter to me?
Why should this topic matter to my community?
Why should this topic matter to the world?
Utilize Technology
Introduce students to customs, beliefs and traditions in other countries with the help of a Peace Corps volunteer.
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Skype a scientist for 30-60 minute Q&A sessions that can cover the scientist’s expertise or what it’s like to be a scientist.
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Initiate a pen-pal exchange program with students in other countries.
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Explore the UN Sustainable Development Goals
& the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Encourage Empathy & Action Through Literature & a Benefit Mindset
NNSTOY's Social Justice Book List (August 2017)
The National Network of State Teachers of the Year is a network of State Teachers of the Year who use teacher leadership to ensure that every student receives an outstanding education. Explore the Benefit Mindset (Edutopia 2018)
Helping students see how they can have a positive influence on their community and the world goes beyond teaching and modeling empathy. A benefit mindset "redefines success from being the best in the world, to being the best for the world.” -Ash Buchanan |
Participate in Global Collaboration, Inquiries & Contests
Belouga is an online program which allows students to learn about and discuss each others lives. Teachers and students are able to create profiles to showcase their classroom, culture and community with the world.
Empatico activities help students practice respectful communication, perspective taking, cooperation, and critical thinking, as they experience positive connections with peers around the world. All of our activities are standards- and research-based, and they fit easily into existing curriculum.
Future City Competition is a project-based learning program where students in 6th, 7th, and 8th grades imagine, research, design, and build cities of the future. Participate in a competition to create a future city that addresses a different challenge each year. Contest Global Landmark Games The cross-curricular Landmark Games provide practice for developing the global competencies students need to succeed. While working with topics related to geography, history, literacy, math, and science, students are also developing the competencies with Collaboration, Organization, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Creativity, Technology Skills, and Global Awareness. One exciting outcome is that Teachers develop enduring relationships for future classroom-to-classroom interactions around the world! Global School Net supports 21st century learning and improves academic performance through content driven collaboration. We engage educators and students in meaningful e-learning projects worldwide to develop science, math, literacy, communication skills and to foster teamwork and civic responsibility.
Global Students, Global Perspectives offers annual global collaboration projects.
iEARN offers more than 100 active global collaboration projects. International Essay Contest for Young Adults is an annual essay contest organized in an effort to harness the energy, creativity and initiative of the world's youth in promoting a culture of peace and sustainable development. It also aims to inspire society to learn from the young minds and to think about how each of us can make a difference in the world. *This program is an activity within the framework of the UNESCO Global Action Programme (GAP) on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). Contest The Entrepreneurship Campus empowers young social entrepreneurs from around the world to create a culture for entrepreneurship. Participants are invited to submit their innovative ideas and projects with a societal impact, which champion and implement one or more of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Twelve lessons and Contest.
Learn Around the World provides virtual field trips (VFTs), guest speakers, and collaborations. They strive to make interactive, unique experiences that will get students excited about global education. NewsMaker: Tell Your Story improves students' communication skills by enabling them to design and create videos to share their knowledge in any content area and language. Videos can be created individually, by collaborating with classmates or even working with others around the world. Visit the website or download the app at shopk12.com Out of Eden Learn is a free online program for students aged 3-19 that has served over 20,000 students in 57 countries. On Out of Eden Learn’s custom built, social media platform, students of similar ages from diverse geographical and socioeconomic settings come together for collective learning experiences. They currently offer several 8-12-week long learning experiences, or “learning journeys,” designed around three broad learning goals. All of the journeys combine offline activities with online interaction. Peace Corps World Wise Schools program is dedicated to promoting global learning through lesson plans, activities, and events—all based on Peace Corps Volunteer experiences. Prudential Spirit of Community Award honors students in grades 5-12 for making meaningful contributions to their communities through volunteer service. Contest Rachel Carson Interrachelcarsonlandmarkalliance.org/events-outreach/rachel-carson-intergenerational-sense-of-wondersense-of-the-wild-contest-2018/generational Sense of Wonder/Sense of the Wild Contest is inspired by Rachel Carson’s writings, in particular her book The Sense of Wonder and the last chapter, “The Other Road,” from her book Silent Spring. Rachel Carson believes that people have within them the potential for appreciating and drawing inspiration from the beauty of nature. Contest WorldVuze is a map-based question and answer education platform where elementary and secondary students around the world can learn directly from each other! It's a safe communication tool that makes international connections easy and allows teachers to integrate authentic, real-world learning into just about any curriculum, opening up a world of deep and engaging, 21st century learning opportunities for teachers and their students. |
Investigate Free Global Education Curriculum
The Advocates for Human Rights K-5 human rights education is focused on understanding the concepts of self, community and responsibility.
Big History Project challenges middle and high school students to look at the world from many different perspectives, inspires a greater love of learning and helps them better understand how we got here, where we’re going, and how they fit in. C3 Teachers/College, Career & Civic Life utilizes the Inquiry Design Model - a one-page representation of the questions, tasks, and sources that define a curricular inquiry. Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education's grade-appropriate lesson sets (K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12) include tailored lessons that have been aligned to The Cloud Institute’s Education for Sustainability Standards and Performance Indicators, and that meet the McREL National Standards and Common Core State Standards. Global Nomads Group offers a Curriculum Resource Library covering identity, human rights and conflict, poverty and politics. Global Oneness Project's Interdisciplinary stories and lesson plans highlight universal themes with a humanistic lens. Global Schools Units & Lesson Plans helps teachers with what they need to include global citizenship in their everyday practice. In this data base, you will find teaching resources based on a cross-cutting approach to different disciplines. Global Workforce Project's curriculum includes
Culture and Human Rights, Demographics, Gender and Globalization, Global Banking and Finance, Global Health, Global Services, Nationalism and State Sovereignty, Sustainability, Technology, and Trade Media Education Lab creates free multimedia curriculum materials to help learners of all ages advance knowledge, skills and competencies. National Geographic's classroom materials are designed in a modular system, with activities as the base unit. An activity will fill one class period, while a lesson (a collection of activities) can fill up to a week. Units (collections of lessons) are designed for longer periods of time. National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) provides curriculum, lesson plans and resources to support the scientific study of climate change for grades K, 3, 5, middle and high school.
One World Education's One World Program is a theme-based learning experience with four stages: student exemplar analysis, research, writing, and presentation for partner schools. For non-partner schools, the site offers a student research portal and writing exemplars. The Peace is Possible campaign mobilizes young people worldwide to create awareness, advocate, take action and commit to everlasting world peace. Primary Source K-12 resource library and online curriculum with a focus on global issues, cultures & histories Project Look Sharp: Elementary through college global education curriculum kits aligned with specific Common Core Standards Pulitzer Center provides hundreds of free K-12 lesson plans to engage students with global issues, foster curiosity, and encourage critical thinking. Share my Lesson organizes their top K-12 lesson plans, activities and units by 11 popular topics, themes and events. SML strategies to teach current events (linked).
Teaching Tolerance's resources will help you bring relevance, rigor and social emotional learning into your classroom. UNICEF Kid Power Activities and Lesson Plans for students in Grades 3-8. Pick and choose the activities that work best for your class based on the type of focus. Water Project K-12 Students will explore issues including water scarcity, the effects of dirty and unsafe water, and the lack of proper sanitation and hygiene in a community. United States Institute of Peace offers lessons, simulations, activities, and other resources which are useful as supplements to the Peacebuilding Toolkit for Educators, but can also be used independently to support learning about international conflict management and peacebuilding. World’s Largest Lesson introduces the Sustainable Development Goals to children and young people everywhere and unites them in action with seventeen global goals.
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Create Inquiry Projects
Use the following Thinking Routines to design inquiries that make thinking visible.
Strategies to strengthen your students’ literacy skills, nurture critical thinking, and create a respectful classroom climate. 53 Ways to Check for Understanding (A collection of formative assessments) |
Curation encourages students to use multi-modal research and presentation techniques to consider a topic from multiple perspectives.
Kid Curators LLC explains the whats, hows and whys of kid curation.
Kid Curators LLC explains the whats, hows and whys of kid curation.
Visible Thinking Routines loosely guide learners' thought processes and encourage active processing. They are short, easy-to-learn mini-strategies that extend and deepen students' thinking and become part of the fabric of everyday classroom life. Thinking Ideals are easily accessible concepts capturing naturally occurring goals, strivings or interests that often propel our thinking. Four Ideals -- Understanding, Truth, Fairness and Creativity -- are presented as modules on this site. There are associated routines for each ideal and within each module there are activities that help deepen students' concepts around the ideal.
http://www.visiblethinkingpz.org/VisibleThinking_html_files/VisibleThinking1.html
http://www.visiblethinkingpz.org/VisibleThinking_html_files/VisibleThinking1.html
C3 Teachers: College, Career & Civic Life The Inquiry Design Model (IDM) is a distinctive approach to creating curriculum and instructional materials that honors teachers’ knowledge and expertise, avoids overprescription, and focuses on the main elements of the instructional design process as envisioned in the Inquiry Arc of the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for State Social Studies Standards (2013). Unique to the IDM is the blueprint, a one-page representation of the questions, tasks, and sources that define a curricular inquiry. |