Language Learning Center at the University of Washington has a wide variety of resources for learning languages.
UW ESL Center has a pedagogical resource page with language-related web sites, including resources for the community.
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics
Try out a machine translator at Alta Vista's Babel Fish.
www.cultureglobe.com is a multicultural E-zine about cultures around the world designed for English language learners.
University of Washington K-12 Resource Guide provides a wide variety of resources for teachers.
The American Forum for Global Education provides lots of online information, including Guidelines for Global and International Studies Education.
Education for Global Involvement, Inc. is a nonprofit focused on teaching global citizenship. They have suggestions for classroom projects.
An article titled Practical Suggestions for Teaching Global Education is available through the ERIC web site.
A "Teachers' Guide to International Collaboration on the Internet" is available on the website of the U.S. Department of Education. The projects listed are collaborative projects with international participation.
The UW program for Health and Environmental Resources for Educators has an online Project Greenskate . It is:
Project Greenskate involves students in investigating potential health concerns surrounding the hypothetical development of a city park on a former industrial site contaminated with certain common environmental pollutants (lead, PCB, and TPHs). Students navigate through the information collecting nine key documents that they will need in order to write an article about the situation. In the course of the investigation, they visit various fictitious web sites such as the Department of Environmental Quality, City Hall, a Community Center, and the local high school to obtain facts, information, perspectives, and advice about how to assess and evaluate health concerns surrounding the potential use of the contaminated site as a public park. Using a highly interactive format, Greenskate introduces basic toxicology concepts such as dose-response, routes of exposure, thresholds for toxic effects, biotransformation, and risk assessment. This module is written in in HTML and is available on the WWW.
The Food Timeline summarizes the history of the food we eat on a clickable time line. Click, for example, on Jelly Beans in 1861, and jump to a web page telling about the history of jelly beans. There's also a link at the same time to recipes from the Civil War.
You can find recipes from all around the world at Searchable Online Archive of Recipes.
Epals is an online classroom community featuring online pen pals for students. It includes teacher resources.
GlobaLearn Core is an online learning solution for K-12 Language Arts and Social Studies classrooms. Global Learn sends field teams around the world. Kids can read their travel logs and journals, see new pictures daily, get host profiles, ask questions, and correspond with children they meet. Themes include History, Traditions, Environment, and Industry, with regular investigations into each area. They have starting charging a fee. A subscription for teachers is now available until September 30, 2000 for $99. This subscription offer gives teachers and their students password access to GlobaLearn Core for one full year.
I*EARN has been a pioneer in an "interactive" approach to using educational technology by encouraging students to actively contribute to, rather than just passively "surf," the Internet. Initial pioneering programs were created in the US and former Soviet Union to demonstrate that telecommunications technology can both enhance learning and create on-line global communities. I*EARN provides the teacher-designed content and interaction to answer the question "Now what?" after a school has access to the Internet.
A great place to start for online resources is ProTeacher!. They have lists of web sites with curriculum ideas, and lots of work sheets that can be printed out. It is organized by subject area. Geography lessons are organized by region.
NRICH is an online maths club for children from 5 to 18, providing free teaching resources for schools and extra-curricular activities for maths clubs. It is based in England, and has members from over 80 countries.
The Maya use a base 20 number system. See www.michielb.nl/maya/math.html for more information. Or check on the Egyptian mathematics web site for information on that number system.
Would you like information on the different types of calendars used throughout the world? At the Calendars web site you'll find everything from a description of the Muslim calendar to the origins of Daylight Savings Time.
Want an alternative to the calculator? The Abacus web site will tell you all you want to know about the art of calculating with beads, including a comparison of Chinese and Mesoamerican Abacuses. Oh yes, and it can be viewed in Spanish, German, and French as well as English.
Explore instruments from around the world with the Music Heritage Network Instrument Encyclopedia.
The American Forum for Global Education has an online newsletter with lots of suggestions for teaching global science.
Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) is a worldwide network of students, teachers, and scientists working together to study and understand the global environment. Students and teachers from over 9500 schools in more than 90 countries are working with research scientists to learn more about our planet.
NASA Quest brings NASA people and science to K-12 classrooms via the Internet. While not specifically international in focus, it is a great resource for integrating internet technology into the science classroom.
The National Museum of Science in London has a number of online exhibits, including the Art of Invention, Dolly the Sheep, and Fusion.
Live from the Rainforest lets kids learn about active research going on now in the rainforest.
You can learn about oceans (the way they move, habitats, marine mammals, ocean water, and ocean regions) from the Office of Naval Research web site.
The Wild Ones is a web site of the Wildlife Preservation Trust International. It contains descriptions of animals around the world.
The National Wildlife Federation has a number of eductional programs, including an online Educator's Guide.
The online version of African Voices, a permanent exhibition of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, examines the diversity, dynamism, and global influence of Africa’s peoples and cultures over time in the realms of family, work, community, and the natural environment.
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County has an online exhibit on Africa.
The Washington Post has run a series of occasional articles that chronicles the joys and struggles in the everyday lives of African peoples. This African Lives series includes topics such as Midwives in Ethiopia, AIDS in Kenya, and Child Brides in Ivory Coast.
You can follow the Bancroft Arnesen Expedition on the web. This is the first all-women expedition to cross Antartica. They will travel using skiis and sails from November 2000 to Feb. 2001.
The about-australia web site is a good place to start.
You can also take an online tour of the Vikings: The North Atlantic exhibit.This National Museum of Natural History exhibit is about an extraordinary people who set out from their European homelands for unknown places beyond the horizon, including North America, 1000 years ago.
An interactive timeline of Russia is available based on the PBS series Face of Russia.
The CIA Homepage for Kids includes a World Fact Book for looking up information about specific countries.
The E-Conflict World Encyclopedia has information on just about every country in the world, including a map, summary of the history, geography, and people. It will even play the national anthem of each country for you. E-Conflict is short for "Eradicate Conflict by Increasing Cultural Awareness". There are ads on this web site.
The geographia web site has information about many countries. It is organized by region of the world.
The United Nations Cyber School Bus InfoNation allows you to easily compare a wide variety of statistics for your choice of countries. Also available in French and Spanish.
The World Bank provides basic statistics for many, many countries. Just click on the region of the world map that you're interested in.
National Geographics Map Machine will let you scroll around the world, and see flags and basic information about any country you choose.
The Eat Ethnic web site has information on holidays around the world, with a focus on food.
Teacher resources on the Mexican Day of the Dead celebration are available on the PBS Food for the Ancestors web site. More information is available on this celebration at www.azcentral.com/ent/dead.
The World Book Encyclopedia has an series of online articles on World Holidays.
Although this web site has ads, the web-holidays site is also filled with information and ideas for activities (including recipes) for a wide-variety of holidays around the world.
Need something to celebrate today? The earth calendar site will give you a list of holidays all around that world that are being celebrated each day.
Georgetown University and the Organization of American States has an online Political Database of the Americas for research on governments in North and South America.
Amazon Interactive is an interactive study of the geography of the Amazon rain forest in Ecuador.
The Brooklyn Expedition to Latin America has information on ancient and modern Latin American cultures, history, and animals.
Mexico for Kids is a web site that can be viewed in English, Spanish, or French.