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Selected Web Resources for International Education
Africa
Africa Access
http://www.africaaccessreview.org/aar/index.html
Includes annotations and reviews of literature for children, links to activities about Africa, and information about the Children’s Africana Book Awards.
Exploring Africa
http://exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu/index.php
Offers four curriculum units from Michigan State University with input from other consultants.
South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid, Building Democracy
http://www.overcomingapartheid.msu.edu/
Presents first-hand accounts including interviews with South African activists, video footage, historical documents, rare photographs, and more.
African Image Resources
http://www.kasc.ku.edu/resources/library_museum/collections/index.shtml
Extensive bank of digital images from the African art and material culture collections at the University of Kansas.
Asia
Asia for Educators
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/
With contributions from top Asia scholars in America, this Columbia University site includes timelines, reading lists, primary-source based curriculum units, and embedded media.
Ask Asia
http://askasia.org/
Includes K-12 teaching and learning strategies, and pedagogically sound resources such as maps, photographs, art images, glossaries, timelines and more from the Asia Society.
Ask Asia for Kids!
http://askasia.org/kids/
A portal to fun online stories and games as well as many art and language learning resources.
Confucius Institute at the University of Kansas (CIKU)
http://www.confucius.ku.edu/
Dedicated to “enhancing the understanding of the Chinese language and culture” by providing high quality public programming in Kansas, western Missouri, and larger Great Plains regions.
Kansas Consortium for Teaching about Asia at the University of Kansas
http://www.kcta.ku.edu/
Works with school districts in Kansas, western Missouri and the Dakotas to enhance instruction about East Asia throughout the curriculum; holds the "Teaching East Asia," class for in-service teachers and school librarians and offers follow-up activities for seminar alumni. Includes a searchable lesson plan bank for all grades and subject areas at http://www.kcta.ku.edu/~kcta/cgi-bin/lessons/index.php.
Global Curriculum
Building Bridges: A Peace Corps Classroom Guide to Cross-Cultural Understanding
http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/publications/bridges/index.cfm
FREE downloadable resource providing standards-based lesson plans and activities for grades 6-12 that build cross-cultural awareness, respect, and communication in your classroom.
Coverdell World Wise Schools
http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/
This Peace Corps program provides a correspondence match between U.S. educators / students and currently serving Peace Corps volunteers, cross-cultural publications, award-winning videos, stories, folk tales, classroom speakers and more.
Edutopia: The George Lucas Educational Foundation
http://www.edutopia.org/
Includes multimedia and text resources on cross-disciplinary study, project learning, technology integration, social and emotional learning, and assessment.
Geography Action!
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geography-action/
Provides maps, student activities, and online resources for themed lesson units on Africa, the Americas and Asia, and on overarching themes including migration, oceans, and public lands.
Global Citizenship Curriculum Development
http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/uai_globaleducation/pdfs/deldial.pdf
Produced by Dr. Lynette Shultz and Evelyn Hamdon through the University of Alberta, this FREE download addresses the challenges and opportunities presented by internationalization.
Globalization101.org
http://www.globalization101.org/
Provides news analyses, issue briefs, and teacher resources for helping students understanding globalization including an especially helpful lesson plan bank.
Kansas Committee for International Education in the Schools (KCIES)
http://www.kansasintheworld.org/kcies/
A statewide group of policymakers, educators, businesspeople, and other individuals promoting infusion of international topics into the K-12 curriculum, raising public awareness of the need for international education, and providing resources.
My Wonderful World
http://www.mywonderfulworld.org/
A National Geographic-led campaign to expand geographic learning featuring an e-newsletter, geography learning games, access to the National Geographic-Roper poll of geographic literacy, an educator “action kit,” FREE maps and links to other geographic resources.
National Geographic Education Foundation EdNet resources
http://www.ngsednet.org/index.cfm
A clearinghouse for exploring professional development opportunities, online lesson plans, and educator communities concerned with geography.
Outreach from Area Studies Centers at the University of Kansas
http://www.kasc.ku.edu/~kasc/outreach/index.shtml
http://www.ceas.ku.edu/outreach/index.shtml
http://www.crees.ku.edu/~crees/outreach/index.shtml
http://www2.ku.edu/~latamst/outreach/index.shtml
Federally-funded area studies centers for Africa, East Asia, Latin America, and Russia & Eastern Europe at the University of Kansas provide outreach to K-12 educators including professional development workshops, lending libraries of curriculum materials and newsnotes.
Oxfam: Education
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education
Introduces the principles of global citizenship for students and teachers and provides FREE, resources about important issues such as poverty, social justice, diversity and even music.
Partnership for Global Learning
http://www.asiasociety.org/education/pgl/
A membership network connecting stakeholders, issues and policies to prepare K-12 students to excel in an interconnected world through publications, conferences, workshops, newsletters, policy briefs and online resources for a fee. Their FREE newsletter is very informative.
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
www.21stcenturyskills.org
Committed to infusing “21st-century” skills into education by providing tools and resources to help facilitate education for success. A FREE 21st Century Skills and Social Studies Map will assist social studies educators in integrating 21st-century skills into their lessons.
SPICE
http://spice.stanford.edu
Multidisciplinary curriculum units on international themes for Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Latin America, the global environment, and international political economy and more for purchase. SPICE Digests such as on the one on Africa (http://spice.stanford.edu/docs/africa/) are FREE.
Teach GlobalEd: Online Resources for Global Educators
http://www.coe.ohio-state.edu/globaled/home.cfm
Annotated links to primary sources and web-based connections to the five world regions of Africa, East Asia, Latin America, Middle East and Slavic and Eastern Europe and for global issues.
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction: International Education Resources
http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/cal/ieresources.html
Offers links to proven international education resources organized by topic such as languages, area studies, geography, statistics, development, exchange programs, etc. Also see their International Ed Recommendations (http://dpi.wi.gov/cal/pdf/ie-recom.pdf) and the more recent Pathways to Global Literacy (http://dpi.wi.gov/cal/pdf/pathways.pdf).
Worldmindedness: Taking Off the Blinders
http://www.joci.ecu.edu/index.php/JoCI/article/viewFile/122/143
An article in the Journal of Curriculum and Instruction written by educators in the U.S., Japan, and Hong Kong about the need for “preparing young people to become “worldminded” citizens.
Latin america
Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
http://lanic.utexas.edu/
Provides access to world-wide databases and information services about Latin America.
LatinWorld
http://www.latinworld.com/
A general directory of Internet resources on Latin America and the Caribbean that may be browsed by region or topic.
Resource Center of the Americas
http://www.americas.org/
Dedicated to educating, and organizing for human rights, democracy, and justice in the Americas with seminars, fair-trade crafts, photo exhibitions, and adult-education activities.
Middle East
Arab World and Islamic Resources
http://www.awaironline.org/
Offers educational materials and services about the Arab world and Islam at for K-12 students.
Middle East Studies Internet Resources
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/mideast/cuvlm/
A website from Columbia University Library detailing resources on this important world area.
MultiMedia, News, and Technology
Annenberg Media: Learner.org
http://www.learner.org
Promotes excellence in teaching in American schools through links to multimedia resources for the arts, world languages, literature and language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies.
World-newspapers.com
http://www.world-newspapers.com/
A database of newspapers, magazines and news sites in English, sorted by country and region.
Worldpress
http://www.worldpress.org/
A webzine with articles reprinted from outside the USA and original material that assist in crossing the barriers of language, geography, and culture through an international perspective.
Peace and Conflict
Maps of War
http://www.mapsofwar.com/
Designed to aid educators in placing today's current events into their greater historical contexts, featuring maps that share fact-based conclusions about the history of war.
Student Classroom Connections
100 People: A World Portrait
http://www.100people.org/
Shows the global population of 6.5 billion reduced to only 100 people with a statistically proportional and accurate description; includes multimedia, global art projects and links to participating schools worldwide.
ePals
www.epals.com
This FREE global community of collaborative learners, teachers, and academic experts in 200 countries and territories, provides safe connections to students, classes, and school districts worldwide. Promote cross-cultural collaborations on a variety of subjects.
Facing the Future
http://www.facingthefuture.org/
Seeks to provide resources to ignite student interest in global issues such as population, consumption, poverty, and the environment. K-12 curriculum resources include activity-based lessons, ideas for service learning, and information about professional development and inservice workshops and conferences. Some FREE downloads available.
Global Nomads Group (GNG)
http://www.gng.org/
An interactive educational program for students who discuss civics, social and global studies, geography, science, economics and politics with their peers around the world using videoconferencing. Programs linked to curricula, standards and 21st century learning objectives and include lesson plans and training for teachers for an annual fee.
iEARN (International Education and Resource Network)
http://www.iearn.org/
A non-profit organization of over 20,000 schools and youth organizations in more than 115 countries empowering teachers and students to work together online in collaborative educational projects.
One World Classrooms
http://www.oneworldclassrooms.org/
A nonprofit organization offering cross-cultural connections between American K-12 and overseas partners using technology through various mediums, including international art exchange, a student-to-student language lab, PowerPoint, email, video and music exchanges. Many services are FREE.
United Nations CyberSchoolbus
http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/
Provides lesson plans and project ideas on global issues that students from around the world can collaborate on via the Internet.
The World Cafe
http://www.theworldcafe.com/
A global on-line community that fosters conversation and communication about questions that matter and encourages “effective action in the pursuit of common aims” for a fee.
Worldsavvy
http://worldsavvy.org/
Offers for a fee an academic competition on international affairs for middle and high school students, an arts program that helps young people use art and media for community and global engagement as well as professional development to help mainstream global issues content into classroom instruction.
Student and Teacher Travel Exchange
AFS Intercultural Programs
http://www.afs.org/
Offering international exchange programs for American students in more than 50 countries worldwide since 1919; coordinates American host families for international students.
Bridge Volunteers
http://www.bridgevolunteers.org/
A service learning and volunteer program for high school students and K-12 educators looking for a meaningful travel experience with an opportunity to serve others.
Cultural Heritage Alliance (CHA) Educational Tours
http://www.cha-tours.com/
One of the oldest American-owned educational tour operators working directly with teachers who organize travel groups from within their schools and chaperone their students overseas.
Passports
www.passports.com
Educational travel tours for high school students, teachers and adults to Europe, Scandinavia, Africa, the Caribbean, Asia and Australia; local teacher-organizers enjoy special benefits.
Youth for Understanding (YFU)
www.yfu-usa.org
High school students live with host families in more than 30 countries to learn world languages and gain a global perspective for an academic year, semester, or summer; also coordinates homestays with American host families for foreign high school students.
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