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Project-Based Learning

Students at Fort Vancouver High School in Washington state. (Asia Society)

Below are lessons and curricular resources for project-based learning. You might also be interested in learning more about the International Studies Schools Network or Global Learning Beyond School program, initiatives of the Center for Global Education at Asia Society.

Lesson Plans and Curricular Resources

Model United Nations (UNA-USA)

Simulations: Real-World Practice

Simulating global collaboration helps students develop global competence. Here's how to get started.
Making connections
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Get Started with Web 2.0 and Global Learning

How to use free tools to connect with the greater world.
Students work at computers (sjlocke/iStockPhoto)
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Global Digital Media: Project Ideas

Five project ideas that will excite your students and connect them to the world.
Icons (graphixel/iStockPhoto)
resource

Best Web 2.0 Sites for Global Learning

How can students shape the future through global media? Here's how.
A little girl gets her lantern ready during the Tet celebration (pixiduc/Flickr)
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Tet: Let's Get Ready to Celebrate

Learn about Lunar new Year in Vietnam and why it is an especially good time to review good manners.
A New York City elementary school student created this after being inspired
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Patterns from Nature

Discover Australia, its unique geography and animals, and Aborigine culture through this art-based lesson plan.
Chinese paper cut out of a mouse (iStockPhoto)
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Chinese Cut Outs

Teach children about an important Chinese invention: paper! Learn about the history of paper and its many uses (some quite surprising). The lesson concludes with a paper cut-out activity.
Woman standing with horse. (kitseeborg/flickr)
resource

A Museum as Time Capsule

This lesson focuses on using museums, or more precisely, artwork or artifacts, as resources to study history and geography.
Newspaper cartoon of MLK. (The Chicago Sun-Times)
resource

Thoreau, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Explore the global lineage of civil rights movements.

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