Example Lessons
ELA
Classroom Book Talks - Do you love to read? Do you hate reading but every once in a while you read a really great book? Do you love to talk about the books you read? Are you always looking for the perfect book to read? Then this is the place for you. Here you can find book lists and book reviews. You can add your own. You can create...
Point of View Writing Project - This wiki is designed to help students learn about different points of view. It is a place where connections can be made, discussions can take place, learning can occur. All it takes is a partner and some time.
The Poetry School - This social network is a meeting place for poetry lovers and enthusiasts who are keen to develop a close relationship between the world of school and the open universe of poetry.
Global StoryTelling - Students will learn about favourite books of students in Australia, Malaysia, China and Bulgaria. They will collaborate and share stories through using computer software and a shared wikispace. Students will also learn about the cultures in these different countries.
The Play Project - The purpose of this PlayProject is to play in real time with other children in other places. Building on traditional Skype projects like MysterySkype and Skyping in experts, this moves into giving children 1:1 or 2:2 peer to peer audience for their play that provides immediate interaction, collaboration, and conversation.
Global Read Aloud - The premise is simple; we pick a book to read aloud to our students during a set 6-week period and during that time we try to make as many global connections as possible.
Know My World Journal Swap for Peace - The Journal Swap for Peace is a project designed to create cultural awareness, empathy among peers and to promote communication and literacy. This project emphasizes self-awareness and organizational writing skills through journaling about daily life.
Google Lit Trips - Free downloadable files that mark the journeys of characters from famous literature on the surface of Google Earth. At each location along the journey there are placemarks with pop-up windows containing a variety of resources including relevant media, thought provoking discussion starters, and links to supplementary information about “real world” references made in that particular portion of the story.
Student Blogging Challenge - The aim of the student blogging challenge is to connect student bloggers with a global audience while supporting teachers with their classroom blogging. It runs twice yearly, starting in March and September, and guides the participants through blogging and commenting over 10 weeks.
Life Round Here - A digital story-telling project intended to help students around the world understand what school is like for others so that students understand the differences and similarities between their own culture and cultures that are foreign to them.
Poetry Collaboration - This project centers around the book, Love That Dog by Sharon Creech. Through the book students explore and create poems. Then use the project wiki to share their poems and read the poems of other students.
Classroom Book Talks - Do you love to read? Do you hate reading but every once in a while you read a really great book? Do you love to talk about the books you read? Are you always looking for the perfect book to read? Then this is the place for you. Here you can find book lists and book reviews. You can add your own. You can create...
Point of View Writing Project - This wiki is designed to help students learn about different points of view. It is a place where connections can be made, discussions can take place, learning can occur. All it takes is a partner and some time.
The Poetry School - This social network is a meeting place for poetry lovers and enthusiasts who are keen to develop a close relationship between the world of school and the open universe of poetry.
Global StoryTelling - Students will learn about favourite books of students in Australia, Malaysia, China and Bulgaria. They will collaborate and share stories through using computer software and a shared wikispace. Students will also learn about the cultures in these different countries.
The Play Project - The purpose of this PlayProject is to play in real time with other children in other places. Building on traditional Skype projects like MysterySkype and Skyping in experts, this moves into giving children 1:1 or 2:2 peer to peer audience for their play that provides immediate interaction, collaboration, and conversation.
Global Read Aloud - The premise is simple; we pick a book to read aloud to our students during a set 6-week period and during that time we try to make as many global connections as possible.
Know My World Journal Swap for Peace - The Journal Swap for Peace is a project designed to create cultural awareness, empathy among peers and to promote communication and literacy. This project emphasizes self-awareness and organizational writing skills through journaling about daily life.
Google Lit Trips - Free downloadable files that mark the journeys of characters from famous literature on the surface of Google Earth. At each location along the journey there are placemarks with pop-up windows containing a variety of resources including relevant media, thought provoking discussion starters, and links to supplementary information about “real world” references made in that particular portion of the story.
Student Blogging Challenge - The aim of the student blogging challenge is to connect student bloggers with a global audience while supporting teachers with their classroom blogging. It runs twice yearly, starting in March and September, and guides the participants through blogging and commenting over 10 weeks.
Life Round Here - A digital story-telling project intended to help students around the world understand what school is like for others so that students understand the differences and similarities between their own culture and cultures that are foreign to them.
Poetry Collaboration - This project centers around the book, Love That Dog by Sharon Creech. Through the book students explore and create poems. Then use the project wiki to share their poems and read the poems of other students.
Lessons
Teach UNICEF - A portfolio of global education teacher resources designed and collected by the U.S. Fund for UNICEF’s Education Department for teachers, afterschool instructors, and parents.
Ongoing Projects
General
The Global Hello Project - We want to create a place where schools from many places around the world can come to learn from one another and experience other cultures. We hope you will join us and tell your story.
Qatar Foundation Projects - A repository of current projects looking for participants
Quad Blogging - A Blog needs an audience to keep it alive for your learners. Too often blogs wither away leaving the learners frustrated and bored. Quadblogging™ gives your blog a truly authentic and global audience that will visit your blog, leave comments and return on a cycle.
Walk My World - The #WalkMyWorld Project is a social media project in which we share and connect online at Twitter using one hashtag. Groups of learners across the globe are connecting and sharing for 10 weeks using the #WalkMyWorld hashtag.
Skype in the Classroom - Three ways to use Skype in the classroom; collaborate with other classes, no matter where they are, find guest speakers and invite them into your classroom, take a virtual field trip anywhere in the world.
Projects by Jen - Projects By Jen is a website for teachers created by a teacher who wants EVERYONE to bring fun back into teaching. You will always get useful (and fun ideas) to use with your classroom!
My Hero Project - The mission of MY HERO is to use media, art and technology to celebrate the best of humanity and to empower people of all ages to realize their own potential to effect positive change in the world.
Compassion Games - The Compassion Games are designed to make our communities safer, kinder, more just, and better places to live. No matter where you are you can perform a Random Act of Kindness, or become a Secret Agent of Compassion and receive a secret mission for each of the eleven days.
Mystery Skype - Mystery Skype is an educational game, invented by teachers, played by two classrooms on Skype. The aim of the game is to guess the location of the other classroom by asking each other questions.
International Dot Day - The Dot is the story of a caring teacher who dares a doubting student to trust in her own abilities by being brave enough to “make her mark”. What begins with a small dot on a piece of paper becomes a breakthrough in confidence and courage, igniting a journey of self-discovery and sharing, which has gone on to inspire countless children and adults around the globe.
Global Lunch Table Project - This wiki is an open wiki for everyone to join on the theme `Lunch`.
Schools around the world have added photoes and discripitons of what they eat for lunch and how they get it.
ePals - ePals Global Classroom creates real world, culturally-enriching learning experiences for students. With ePals classroom matching, a high school class studying Chinese can connect with a class studying English in China or the classes can work on a special project together.
iEarn Global Learning Circles - iEarn Global Learning Circles are highly interactive, porject-based partnerships among a small number of schools located throughout the world.
Seven Billion Others - There are more than seven billion of us on Earth, and there will be no sustainable development if we cannot manage to live together. That is why 7 billion Others is so important.to me. It concerns all of us and because it encourages us to take action.
Shout - Shout is a multiyear global education initiative offering webinars and projects for both educators and students.
Chatting Across the USA - A video conferencing project for elementary school students. Students research important and interesting information about their state then teach student across the country using Skype or Google Chat.
Global Youth Debates - A global project that provides a unique global collaborative experience for joining diverse cultures in authentic debate to foster global competence, international mindedness and action.
Student 2 Student - An opportunity to communicate and collaborate with other students around the globe to enhance student's understanding of other cultures.
DigiTeen and DigiTween - A global hands-on project to study digital citizenship and promote responsible online choices in an online collaborative educational community.
Virtual USA - Students learn about their state and create a virtual field trip. This is post of the project website so that other students can view the projects to learn about other states.
The Global Hello Project - We want to create a place where schools from many places around the world can come to learn from one another and experience other cultures. We hope you will join us and tell your story.
Qatar Foundation Projects - A repository of current projects looking for participants
Quad Blogging - A Blog needs an audience to keep it alive for your learners. Too often blogs wither away leaving the learners frustrated and bored. Quadblogging™ gives your blog a truly authentic and global audience that will visit your blog, leave comments and return on a cycle.
Walk My World - The #WalkMyWorld Project is a social media project in which we share and connect online at Twitter using one hashtag. Groups of learners across the globe are connecting and sharing for 10 weeks using the #WalkMyWorld hashtag.
Skype in the Classroom - Three ways to use Skype in the classroom; collaborate with other classes, no matter where they are, find guest speakers and invite them into your classroom, take a virtual field trip anywhere in the world.
Projects by Jen - Projects By Jen is a website for teachers created by a teacher who wants EVERYONE to bring fun back into teaching. You will always get useful (and fun ideas) to use with your classroom!
My Hero Project - The mission of MY HERO is to use media, art and technology to celebrate the best of humanity and to empower people of all ages to realize their own potential to effect positive change in the world.
Compassion Games - The Compassion Games are designed to make our communities safer, kinder, more just, and better places to live. No matter where you are you can perform a Random Act of Kindness, or become a Secret Agent of Compassion and receive a secret mission for each of the eleven days.
Mystery Skype - Mystery Skype is an educational game, invented by teachers, played by two classrooms on Skype. The aim of the game is to guess the location of the other classroom by asking each other questions.
International Dot Day - The Dot is the story of a caring teacher who dares a doubting student to trust in her own abilities by being brave enough to “make her mark”. What begins with a small dot on a piece of paper becomes a breakthrough in confidence and courage, igniting a journey of self-discovery and sharing, which has gone on to inspire countless children and adults around the globe.
Global Lunch Table Project - This wiki is an open wiki for everyone to join on the theme `Lunch`.
Schools around the world have added photoes and discripitons of what they eat for lunch and how they get it.
ePals - ePals Global Classroom creates real world, culturally-enriching learning experiences for students. With ePals classroom matching, a high school class studying Chinese can connect with a class studying English in China or the classes can work on a special project together.
iEarn Global Learning Circles - iEarn Global Learning Circles are highly interactive, porject-based partnerships among a small number of schools located throughout the world.
Seven Billion Others - There are more than seven billion of us on Earth, and there will be no sustainable development if we cannot manage to live together. That is why 7 billion Others is so important.to me. It concerns all of us and because it encourages us to take action.
Shout - Shout is a multiyear global education initiative offering webinars and projects for both educators and students.
Chatting Across the USA - A video conferencing project for elementary school students. Students research important and interesting information about their state then teach student across the country using Skype or Google Chat.
Global Youth Debates - A global project that provides a unique global collaborative experience for joining diverse cultures in authentic debate to foster global competence, international mindedness and action.
Student 2 Student - An opportunity to communicate and collaborate with other students around the globe to enhance student's understanding of other cultures.
DigiTeen and DigiTween - A global hands-on project to study digital citizenship and promote responsible online choices in an online collaborative educational community.
Virtual USA - Students learn about their state and create a virtual field trip. This is post of the project website so that other students can view the projects to learn about other states.
Social Studies
Out My Window - Launched at the 2013 Global Education conference, “Out My Window” was born from a quest to have students gain global perspective. “Out My Window” classrooms share their world. Inspired by the five themes of geography, students reveal cultural awareness and understanding through original poetry and photography.
Know My World Digital Exchange - Cross cultural exchange provides an opportunity to learn about others culture and beliefs, cultivates empathy and understanding, and promotes tolerance and peace. Relationships are the epicenter of humanity and the true institution of knowledge.
i-Spy in the Community - A global, collaborative project which focuses on the essential question: How do you know that you are part of a community? Using VoiceThread, students share information about their community that highlights culture. They compare and contrast their community with others by viewing and commenting on i-Spy projects from other communities around the world.
A Week in the Life Of... - The focus of this project includes concepts for how we live, how we communicate, cultural understanding and global awareness. Through this project students connect, communicate, explore global topics and issues and create digital artifacts together that share solutions.
Out My Window - Launched at the 2013 Global Education conference, “Out My Window” was born from a quest to have students gain global perspective. “Out My Window” classrooms share their world. Inspired by the five themes of geography, students reveal cultural awareness and understanding through original poetry and photography.
Know My World Digital Exchange - Cross cultural exchange provides an opportunity to learn about others culture and beliefs, cultivates empathy and understanding, and promotes tolerance and peace. Relationships are the epicenter of humanity and the true institution of knowledge.
i-Spy in the Community - A global, collaborative project which focuses on the essential question: How do you know that you are part of a community? Using VoiceThread, students share information about their community that highlights culture. They compare and contrast their community with others by viewing and commenting on i-Spy projects from other communities around the world.
A Week in the Life Of... - The focus of this project includes concepts for how we live, how we communicate, cultural understanding and global awareness. Through this project students connect, communicate, explore global topics and issues and create digital artifacts together that share solutions.
Science
Monarch Butterfly Migration - Join other Citizen Scientists to track the migration of the Monarch Butterflies from North America to Mexico
Nasa Citizen Scientist
Global School House - Global SchoolNet's mission is to support 21st century, brain-friendly learning, and improve academic performance through content-driven collaboration. We engage educators and students in brain-friendly e-learning projects worldwide to develop science, math, literacy and communication skills, foster teamwork, civic responsibility and collaboration, encourage workforce preparedness and create multi-cultural understanding.
World Moon Project - Students from all over the world are asked to observe the moon and identify patterns to gain a deeper understanding about the moon's appearance. Short essays based on student observations are collected by the World MOON Project. Participants then receive a packet of essays from other parts of the world so students are given both a local and global perspective.
Monarch Butterfly Migration - Join other Citizen Scientists to track the migration of the Monarch Butterflies from North America to Mexico
Nasa Citizen Scientist
Global School House - Global SchoolNet's mission is to support 21st century, brain-friendly learning, and improve academic performance through content-driven collaboration. We engage educators and students in brain-friendly e-learning projects worldwide to develop science, math, literacy and communication skills, foster teamwork, civic responsibility and collaboration, encourage workforce preparedness and create multi-cultural understanding.
World Moon Project - Students from all over the world are asked to observe the moon and identify patterns to gain a deeper understanding about the moon's appearance. Short essays based on student observations are collected by the World MOON Project. Participants then receive a packet of essays from other parts of the world so students are given both a local and global perspective.
Art
Global Art Project for Peace - The Global Art Project is an International Art Exchange for Peace. Here's how it works: Participants create a work of art in any medium, expressing their vision of global peace and goodwill. The art is displayed locally in each participant’s community. Global Art Project then organizes an international exchange by matching participants—group-to-group and individual-to-individual.
Dream Flag Project - Inspired by the poetry of Langston Hughes and the tradition of Nepalese Buddhist prayer flags, The Dream Flag Project® is an annual poetry/art/community-connection project for students in Kindergarten to twelfth grade. Students first read poetry of Langston Hughes, particularly his dream poems. Then they create their own dream poems and transfer them onto pieces of 8 ½ by 11 in. cloth. They decorate the cloth in all sorts of ways, and finally attach the Dream Flags to a line—just like the prayer flags. The result is a visual line of color and hope that gets displayed in the school or in other public places.
Global Art Project for Peace - The Global Art Project is an International Art Exchange for Peace. Here's how it works: Participants create a work of art in any medium, expressing their vision of global peace and goodwill. The art is displayed locally in each participant’s community. Global Art Project then organizes an international exchange by matching participants—group-to-group and individual-to-individual.
Dream Flag Project - Inspired by the poetry of Langston Hughes and the tradition of Nepalese Buddhist prayer flags, The Dream Flag Project® is an annual poetry/art/community-connection project for students in Kindergarten to twelfth grade. Students first read poetry of Langston Hughes, particularly his dream poems. Then they create their own dream poems and transfer them onto pieces of 8 ½ by 11 in. cloth. They decorate the cloth in all sorts of ways, and finally attach the Dream Flags to a line—just like the prayer flags. The result is a visual line of color and hope that gets displayed in the school or in other public places.
Find Collaborators
Global Classroom Project - Submit your project idea to find teachers and schools to connect and create educational experiences.
Global Classroom Project - Submit your project idea to find teachers and schools to connect and create educational experiences.
Professional Development
Globalizing US History - Preparing history teachers to do this is integral to the longevity and success of global education. This course addresses gaps in thought leadership and the scarcity of professional development programs dedicated to globalizing the U.S. history survey.
Globalizing US History - Preparing history teachers to do this is integral to the longevity and success of global education. This course addresses gaps in thought leadership and the scarcity of professional development programs dedicated to globalizing the U.S. history survey.