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Children's Literature Builds Global Competence
Our picks for great global reads for children—and some tips on how to build literacy skills.
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The Done Deed: Assessing and Celebrating Service Learning
Structuring an analysis of a completed service project is an important part of the learning process. Get ideas here, including how to nominate your students' work for national recognition.
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Making Service Learning Work for Your Students' Futures
Service learning is a terrific way to learn about the real world--locally and globally--while fulfilling curricular requirements.
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Gauri and Prithvi: Nuclear South Asia
Help students understand tensions in South Asia that has led to a nuclear stand-off. Its complex issues and deep roots of conflict offer great material for students to weigh perspectives, role-play, and apply understanding to other foreign
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Seven Skills Students Need for Their Future
Dr. Tony Wagner of Harvard outlines seven critical skills our students need for life in an interconnected world.
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Twice Upon a Time: Multi-Cultural Cinderella
Teach Cinderella stories from around the world--in an interdisciplinary way.
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World Rhythms: Tabla
Learn about a double drum that's found in cultures throughout the world. Through this flexible lesson, learn about the mechanics, methods, and musical qualities of a tabla by creating a "tube-la" in class.
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Comparative Religious Teachings
Students analyze translated texts from Christian, Buddhist, Islamic, Hindu and other religious books.
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Trade in the Silk Road Cities
Students learn about the vast Eurasian trade network--and create a modern-day marketing plan to move products from China to the Middle East. Culture, economics, satellite mapping, "global street smarts" come together in this activity.
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Mapping Perceptions
What can maps tell us about how its creator perceives the world? This simple lesson uses a historical map as a point of study and introduces key elements in a map (scale, symbols, orientations) in a hands-on way.
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Attitudes Towards Nature in Daoist Art
A short lesson--featuring some famous Chinese poems--that help students understand the difference between how many Westerners view nature versus how many Chinese (particularly Daoists and the literati) felt about the natural world around th
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