International Project -based Learning Opportunities List
Asia Society
The Asia Society works to strengthen relations between the United States and the countries of Asia, both in terms of politics and business and in terms of education and culture. The site contains a section on resources for educators, including lesson plans and a list of outside resources. There is also a section for kids, including information on global issues, global careers, and opportunities for awards.
· Educators for Social Responsibility
Educators for Social Responsibility offers professional development programs for teachers. They focus on such areas as conflict resolution, social and emotional learning, and prevention programming. Website registration is free, and the site provides access to lesson plans about international security, conflict resolution, peacemaking, violence prevention, and social responsibility.
· Facing the Future
Facing the Future provides teaching materials with the goal of providing a global perspective on education. Curricula and information about professional development and service-learning opportunities are available on the website.
· Global Classrooms, UNA-USA
Global Classrooms provides educational tools and opportunities, including the Model UN program. The website includes lesson plans, volunteer opportunities, and links to Global Citizen, an online magazine for students on globalization.
· Global Education Collaborative
The Global Education Collaborative is an online community of teachers and students that provides forums for sharing ideas about global education. Forum topics include “Global Education Resources” and “Collaborative Projects,” and teachers can join collaborative groups to brainstorm project and curriculum ideas.
· Global Issues
Global Issues is a website that aims to shine light upon the global problems and injustices that are not regularly reported on by the major news conglomerates. Through articles, many of which were written by the site creator himself, and comments on these articles posted by involved readers, the site voices these concerns in a well-organized and engaging manner.
· GlobalPost
GlobalPost offers news articles and features from around the world. User-friendly and topically diverse, GlobalPost is a reliable and engaging news source.
· Growing up Global
The website companion to the book of the same title. This site includes ideas for ways for families to learn about the world.
· HERVoices
This organization lets the voices of underrepresented girls and women around the world be heard through participatory multimedia presentations and seminars. Descriptions of each presentation can be found on the website.
· InternationalEd.org
InternationalEd.org is dedicated to improving the global focus of K-12 education. Their website includes a series of articles about teaching for global understanding as well as research and other information about global education. There is a section on classroom resources, arranged by subject or world region, and the website offers an online community action kit, “focused on improving international studies in American schools.”
· Oxfam Global Citizenship
This section of the Oxfam International website provides a “curriculum for Global Citizenship” in addition to a broader, school-wide approach to teaching global citizenship. There is a section for teacher support that includes additional resources and tips for teaching controversial topics.
· The Partnership for 21st Century Skills
This organization aims to strengthen education by incorporating important 21st century skills such as global awareness, collaboration, and information and communications literacy into curricula. The website provides online tools for educators.
· TakingITGlobal
TakingITGlobal connects students in an effort to get them to be more involved in their communities, both local and global. The website provides forums for students, project ideas, and a section for educators.
· TeachGlobalEd.net
This website provides carefully reviewed online, print, and media resources for teachers, organized by geographical or topical area. Each resource includes an explanation of why it is recommended for educators.
· United Nations Cyberschoolbus
This website offers statistics about the UN member states and information about the UN, as well as curricula for teachers on topics such as demining, health, and human rights. The site includes additional interactive resources for students that can be used in conjunction with the provided curricula.
· Web 2.0 Tools and Applications
This website keeps a current list of web 2.0 tools that are available online. Many are free and have potential to be useful tools in the classroom.
· World Savvy
This website provides a resource library of media, print, online, and curricular resources. World Savvy runs educational programs for students and teachers with the aim of increasing international awareness. Be sure to click on “World Savvy Monitor,” a subscription-based service that offers amazing curricular resources for teachers.
· YouThink!
This website provides information on a variety of global topics from the environment and health to gender and trade. It discusses their backgrounds, issues surrounding them, and ways to take action. There are sections aimed specifically at students and teachers.
· Two Million Minutes
Two Million Minutes is a documentary about high school education in the United States, China, and India. The film follows two students from each country at the end of their high school careers to see how their “two million minutes” of high school have been used.
· Creative Connections
Creative Connections facilitates classroom-to-classroom exchanges through video conferencing and art exchange.
· ePals Global Community
ePals allows teachers and students to connect with other classrooms or projects. Classrooms come together in a learning exchange through e-mail, blogs, or forums. There is also a translation service so that classrooms from different countries can work together. Project topic areas include global warming, habitats, maps, natural disasters, and water.
· iEARN
Through iEARN, (International Education and Resource Network), teachers and students work with other schools and organizations worldwide to collaborate on a variety of educational projects. These include everything from written anthologies of creative writing, to researching of students’ own backgrounds, to fighting child labor across borders.
· Global SchoolNet
Global SchoolNet’s goal is to foster 21st century learning through internet-based collaboration. Teachers can find collaborative tools, resources, and various interactive programs for students. They can browse through current projects; find teachers and classrooms to work with; and learn about and engage in project-based learning initiatives.
· Global Voices
Global Voices is an online community of over 200 bloggers that collaborate and report on blogs from all over the world. This organization provides a unique resource for learning about current events from sources other than the traditional U.S. newspapers or magazines.
· One World Youth Project
This organization pairs middle and high school student groups from around the world and assigns them a UN Millennium Development Goal on which to focus. At the end of their collaboration, each group creates a local service project.
