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)
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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)
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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)
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Thoreau, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Explore the global lineage of civil rights movements.

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