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Connect. Experience. Understand. myWorld Geography program is a revolutionary new program that blends technology, integrated hands-on activities, and a student text. It takes users on a one-of-a-kind journey around the globe and through history in a way that provides all students multiple ways to Connect, Experience, and Understand the content they are learning: to the lives of 22 teens from around the world.

Global SchoolNet's Projects Registry (PR) is the oldest (1995) and largest online clearinghouse for teacher-conducted global learning projects. The PR contains more than 3,000 annotated listings - and is searchable by date, age level, geographic location, collaboration type, technology tools or keyword. The Project Registry is a central place for educators to find global partners and announce projects. Many projects are aligned with the 21 Century Learning Skills matrix, the ICT Literacy Maps, especially in Science, Geography and English and International Society for Technology Education (ISTE) NETS Standards for Students.

Lots of resources linked from here

We are living in an era of receding glaciers, accelerating loss of species habitat, unprecedented population migration, growing inequalities within and between nations, rising concerns over resource depletion, and shifting patterns of interaction and identity. This website provides 11 geographic investigations aligned to the geographic questions in the NRC Understanding Our Changing Planet report.

This has some interesting attempts at classroom projects....the presentation was rookie, which distracted me no end. poor prep and most of the effort seems to be focused on polling the class on a web page or via sms. Not really a good use of mapping or polling. Still, look over the site for what is useful. Having said that, check out the hosting org site...see above link.