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"Curriculum 21 is the outgrowth of the work of a dynamic group of educators worldwide attempting to help colleagues transform curriculum and school designs to match the needs of 21st century learners. The impetus origniated from the Curriculum Mapping work developed by Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs. As we examined maps emerging across the United States and overseas it was evident that curriculum and instruction remains dated although both students and teachers recognize the need to become current and forward thinking in our planning. Concrete and practical models for updating your school programs appear in her upcoming book, Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World, with ASCD, to be released in January, 2010."

This directory offers a variety of resources and teaching ideas for addressing global education issues across the school curriculum. The directory was developed by teachers from all grade levels and represents only a fraction of materials available for teaching from a global perspective. The book is divided into sections for elementary, middle, and secondary schools, along with a section on the International Resource Center Collection at the World Affairs Council, Springfield, MA. Suggestions are offered for lesson planning, the use of country case studies, inclusion of literature and other arts in the curriculum, and the use of maps. Each section contains a bibliography related to the specific grade levels. (EH)

One World Education publishes middle and high school writing on culture and global issues. We then build standards-based interdisciplinary curriculum around the student writing to increase peer-to-peer learning and increased student engagement in classrooms.

Interesting article about shifting the focus from grades to standard fulfillment and curriculum development.

Through the Cleveland Museumof Art's award winning, low-cost distance learning program, students can view art and artifacts in the museum's collection and interact with museum educators. Lesosns range from Fauvism to foreign languages, from Mesopotamia to math.

History and Current Issues for the Classroom

Asia for Educators (AFE) is designed to serve faculty and students in world history, culture, geography, art, and literature at the undergraduate and pre-college levels.

iEARN (International Education and Resource Network) is the world's largest non-profit global network that enables teachers and youth to use the Internet and other technologies to collaborate on projects that enhance learning and make a difference in the world.

The Global Dimension website is managed by Think Global, an education charity that promotes clogal learning. This website connects current events with curriculua, and provides background information, news reports, research, videos, and other resources to kelp k-12 teachers infuse global issues across content areas.

Find flashcards from the best flashcard sites. Today there are many websites that allow users to create flashcards and share them with others. The purpose of the FlashCardFlash site is to help students find flashcards on any of these sites by entering a single query.

Spanish language dictionary. Note: this is a Spanish to Spanish dictionary.

The development of Journey to El Yunque was supported by grants DRL-9908438 from the National Science Foundation to the NASA Classroom of the Future and DRL-0535942 from the National Science Foundation to The Learning Partnership. The development of Journey to El Yunque was also supported by grants #BSR-8811902, DEB-9411973, DEB-OO8538, DEB-0218039 from the National Science Foundation to the Institute of Tropical Ecosystem Studies (IEET), University of Puerto Rico, and the International Institute of Tropical Forestry (IITFR) as part of the Long-Term Ecological Research Program in the Luquillo Experimental Forest. Additional support was provided by the Forest Service (U.S. Department of Agriculture) and the University of Puerto Rico. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the developer and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Might be a good link to place on your teacher page for kids to walk through at home or for one of the long Wednesdays.

This free online Word to PDF converter converts Microsoft Word documents (.doc/.docx) to Adobe Acrobat PDF (.pdf) documents with a single click.

"Doki, Discovery kids la mascota, Doki Descubre, Mezclar colores, Videos que gustan a bebes y niños pequeños" Doki the cartoon dog talks about mixing colors of paint in Spanish

Doki also has other videos on YouTube with other subjects besides colors!