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Online
resources help create a global classroom
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The
following list of websites provide ready-to-use materials, lesson
plans, links and background information on global development issues.
Topics include human rights, HIV/AIDS, the environment, sustainable
development, and peace and security. Be sure to check out the Global
links section for more online resources.
4edu.ca
Through EcoVoyageurs, your
students can learn how to measure the demands we make on our environment.
This measure, called the Ecological Footprint, is a metaphor for
our human impact on the earth. Activities fit into geography, arts,
science, math, social studies and language arts curriculum. Order
your package online. Teaching materials include four 24" x
36" posters and a 32-page booklet with lesson plans and student
worksheets to photocopy.
Canada's SchoolNet
The Government of Canada's
SchoolNet educational website features more than 7,000 learning
resources, a daily information news service on the world of e-learning
(@SchoolNet Today) and interactive features.
Cultivating Peace
Cultivating Peace is an
ongoing initiative to promote a culture of peace. This website provides
classroom-ready resources for schools across Canada to assist teachers
to educate for change. The programs created through this initiative
encourage youth to respect diversity, think globally, value human
rights, recognize injustice and respond to conflict. These resources
will engage children and youth in the search for a culture of peace
in their homes, their schools, their neighbourhoods and their global
community.
Development Education Project
The United Kingdom-based
Development Education Project works with teachers to raise awareness
of global issues by providing support, resources, information, project
work, best practice frameworks and training. Under the site map,
click on "Resource
Centre" for links and activities related to events in the
world news.
The Educator's Reference Desk
New!
The Educator's Reference
Desk provides access to more than 2,000 lesson plans and a resource
collection, which provides links to more than 3,000 resources on
a variety of educational issues. Look for lesson plans on current
events under the "Social Studies" section.
Find Newspapers.com
This website is Your
Internet Guide to Newspapers Online. You and your students
can read up on current events by accessing newspapers in more than
70 countries—including all Canadian dailies.
Food Force – United Nations
World Food Program
New!
Food Force is the humanitarian
video game launched in April 2005 by the United Nations World Food
Program. The game, which received one million hits within the first
two months of being launched, is available as a free download to
help educate children about the issue of global hunger. It contains
six different missions for children aged eight to 13 who work alongside
a team of emergency aid workers. While playing the game, they are
faced with a number of realistic challenges to quickly feed thousands
of people in the fictitious island of Sheylan – piloting helicopters
on reconnaissance missions, negotiating with armed rebels on a convoy
run, and using food aid to help rebuild communities. The website
also has links to news items about real humanitarian disasters and
provides downloads and food-aid lesson plans for teachers.
Global Education Network
A global education approach
to teaching focuses on raising students' awareness of how they fit
into the world community. The Global Education Network consists
of teachers, students and community members who believe that teaching
and learning must integrate the interdependency of the social, economic,
environmental, and political aspects of our world. This website
offers an online directory of resources that can be used in any
curriculum area at any grade level.
The Memory Project
The Memory Project is a
print and Internet initiative of the Dominion Institute. Its purpose
is to provide Canadians, especially youth, with a venue to share
oral histories on the Canadian experience. The three sections—Passages
to Canada, Peace & War and Heroes & Heroism—each include
a link to "Teaching Tools."
The New York Times Learning
Network
New!
This is an excellent site
that takes the news of the day and provides educators with a lesson
plan and curriculum links. Although the curriculum links are U.S.-based,
the lessons on current events can be adapted to the Canadian global
classroom.
The
New York Times Learning Network – Campus Weblines
New!
Campus Weblines contains
everything student newspaper staff and advisers need to know as
they start building online school newspapers for the world to see.
The book talks about how journalism articles are written and edited,
how a staff can be organized for a class or club paper and what
can be done on both a small and big budget. A high-quality school
paper can be published with very little money; a school with an
Internet connection and at least one computer could do it free.
Rainforest Action Network
The Rainforest Action Network
site provides information on protecting tropical rainforests and
the human rights of people who live in and around the rainforests.
The "Teachers & Students" link provides fact sheets
and resources for teachers and students in all grades.
TEACH Magazine
New!
This site contains dynamic
content for educators that includes back issues of TEACH Magazine,
links to online teacher resource materials and much more. You can
subscribe to TEACH Magazine online for one year for about $20.
United
Nations – CyberSchoolBus
The CyberSchoolBus section
of the United Nations website provides information and resources
on global teaching and learning projects. Topics include Indigenous
peoples, peace education, human rights, cleaner oceans and landmines.
United Nations Association in Canada
The United Nations Association
in Canada is a national charitable organization with a mandate to
engage Canadians in the work of the United Nations and the critical
international issues which affect us all. In the drop down "Link
& Learn" menu, you can access resources for all age groups.
Topics include HIV/AIDS, human rights, sustainable development,
and peace and security.
Wide
Angle – Global Classroom
In the "lesson plans"
section, teachers can access resources to help students explore
the themes of conflict, economics, human rights, power and politics,
and religion and culture.
World
Vision Canada – Educational Resources
New!
The World Vision Canada
website provides an online catalogue for educational videos, printed
materials and ready-to-use online resources. Materials are provided
in categories by grade/age level. Many resources are designed to
match Canadian curriculum expectations. Topics for online resources
include Children's Rights for You and Me (grades 2-6), Current Issues
in Global Population (grades 7-9) and HIV/AIDS and Development (grades
9-12).
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