GLOBAL ORGANIZATIONS
The American Forum for Global Education
Everything you will need to begin a Global education program.
KidLink
Find Global Partners for collaborative projects.
Global Dimension
Global Dimension is a guide to books, videos, posters and websites with a global dimension. From climate change to poverty, water to fair trade, you can find resources for all age groups and subjects. Choose one or more options on the left, and start searching.
Global Foot Prints
"A footprint means pressing down and global means world, so 'global footprint' means pressing down on the world and we don't want to press too hard"
(child's definition of a Global Footprint) This site provides activities, issues and more. Global Education
Global issues, Country information, Teacher Tools and a hole lot more.
IEARN USA
This is one of my favorite sites! To take advantage of all the organization has to offer you need to join IEARN. This site is the U.S site and you will be able to go to the Global site.
Global Eye
Global issues for primary (elementary) and secondary students. This site is sponsored by Cambridge University.
Global Classroom
Find schools who want to participate in collaborative projects.
The Globe Programme
A practical environmental education project linking
students and scientists in 109 countries
Over 500 schools in the UK and over 15 Million records world-wide
Global School House
This site has lesson ideas, collaborative projects, and requires membership. The Global Schoolhouse is the original virtual meeting place where educators, students, parents and community members can collaborate, interact, develop, publish and discover learning resources.
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CHARACTER EDUCATION
Service Learning
A clearinghouse for service education and service projects.
Stop Bullying Now
Activities, lessons, interactive games to help stop bullying.
Manners and Ettiquette Page
Teacher Planet's lesson links for manners and etiquette. This site will provide you with an endless amount of information.
Teaching Tolerance
This is a wonderful site full of information. Teaching Tolerance also publishes a wonderful magazine. This site provide lessons, book ideas, games and a lot more!
Don't Gross Me Out!
Table manners from around the world. A game that helps you learn what is exceptable and what is not in different parts of the world.
Manners
Lessons on all types of manners from dining to Internet use.
I am always looking for Character Education websites. Please let me know if you have any websites that are free and suitable for students and/or teachers.
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ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
Eco Exsplorer
Lessons, activities and other web links.
EekWorld
Eekworld is a site by PBS. This site is for students and is very interactive. Your students will love it! GeoHive: Global Statistics
Do you need global statistics on just about everything...here it is!
Ollie Recycles
A website about recycling for young students. Very interactive.
Planet Arkive
Another great interactive site for young students dealing with our environment.
Recycle Zone
Games, lessons, fun interactive website for elementary to middle school kids that teach recycling.
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GEOGRAPHY
Geography Essentials
Although made for the UK geography curriculum goals, this site adapts well to US geography curriculum goals. This site is fun and interactive.
Antarctica
This site is full of information about Antarctica. This site is interactive with audio, video and an image gallery.
Owl and Mouse Interactive Maps
Ignore the advertising. This site has great interactive maps to help students learn geography.
Geo Mysteries
Sponsored by the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, this site is interactive and best for elementary students. It is very informative. I especially like the Geological timeline.
Oxfam
This site is great! It provides you with a complete interactive geography lesson..another wonderful site from the UK!
Map Machine
A National Geographic site, which provides you with another interactive world map. You can locate by address, see physical maps, road maps and satellite views.
Map Zone
This is a Grid Club site. This site is the epitome of interactive sites. Your students will love it! They will not know that they are learning geography. I would take some time to become familiar with all the site's features. The site is very large and as I said, very interactive.
Time Taker
What time is it where you live? This site will tell you the time for any place in the World.
GeoSpy Game
A geography game for middle school aged students. Very reminiscent of Carmen San Diego. This site is very fun and interactive.
Xpeditions by National Geographic
A Marco Polo site. This is an enormous website that has lesson plans, web links, interactive activities, and maps...everything needed to aide in the teaching of geography. The site is for teachers, not students.
My Wonderful World
I love this site! It is a National Geographic led site with wonderful interactive games, lessons and much more.
I will add websites as I find them. Please send me sites that are interactive, and free and I will add them to the list.
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MULTICUTLTURAL
The Street
This is another great BBC educational site. Visit different ethnic neighborhoods and learn about their cultures.
BritKid
Learn about different cultures including the British culture. You guessed it, another great BBC site.
Chinese New Year
Learn about the Chinese New Year symbols.
Global Gang
This site is interactive and is sponsored by Christian Aide. It does not preach any religious perspectives. It teaches students about other cultures and lands. It is a very informative site and very fun.
Learn a Language
A fun and educational site that teaches many different languages. The site provides movie, audio and activities.
Learn about India
This site was designed for primary or elementary students. It introduces the Indian culture. It is basic and easy to understand and also has great pictures.
Hello
Learn how to say "hello" in many different languages.
Learn about Japan
Kids web Japan teaches students about the Japanese culture, land, pop culture, travel and language. It is very informative, fun and interesting.
Cool Planet
This site is for teachers first. It discusses foods, cultures, places, and global issues. It is a large site and has many wonderful areas within the site.
PBS Sagwa
This is an interactive game site that also teaches students about Chinese New Year. Sagwa is a cartoon on PBS, so you know your younger students will love it.
Peace Corps Educator Site
This is the Peace Corp Government site for educators. The site includes many lesson plans, service projects, and enrichment projects.
United Nations CyberSchoolBus
Lessons, activities, information, and much more!
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GEOCACHING
A Teacher's Perspective
A blog on how to use GPS systems in the classroom.
Dr. Alice Christie's GPS-GeoCaching Site
This is a very informative site with many outside links. This site is for teachers. This will help you prepare to incorporate GPS units or GeoCaching into your curriculum.
GPS and GeoCaching in Education
This is an excellent site that introduces GPS units and GeoCaching into Education. This would be the best place to start to get your feet wet.
GPS Activities
GPS Activities and many pictures of successful GPS classroom activities. It might give you a good ideas or two. This site also includes a powerpoint.
GPS Lesson Plans
This site has a lot of lesson plans, which include handouts and external links.
Juicy Geography
A great introducation to GPS Units. Juicy Geography is a great web site for all things geographical. Here is a link to their home page.
GPS Units and Geo Caching can be a very fun and educational activity. The cost of the GPS units are the only drawback. All you really need is a very basic GPS unit. It has been suggested to me to purchase GPS units during the "after" Christmas sales. Again, please contact me to add any websites to the GeoCaching category, or add information that will be beneficial to those of us who want to incorporate GeoCaching into their curriculum.
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