Resources
Print Materials
Resources for teaching about the Middle East
IP Outreach has a variety of print materials curriculum resources available for check-out. Please contact Amy Green for more information on what resources are available.
Online Resources
Merry Merryfield’s Homepage
Includes online modules for global educators for many regions of the world.
Multicultural Pavilion
The Multicultural Pavilion includes resources for educators, students, and activists to explore and discuss multicultural education; facilitate opportunities for educators to work toward self-awareness and development; and provide forums for educators to interact and collaborate toward a critical, transformative approach to multicultural education.
Global TeachNet
Global TeachNet is the National Peace Corps Association’s primary global education program. This not-for-profit organization of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, former Peace Corps staff, families and friends launched the Global TeachNet network for educators nationwide in 1996. The web site contains program information and resources aimed at the K-12 classroom teacher: profiles of grant-winning classroom programs, grant applications, newsletters, listserv, workshop details, an annotated bibliography of global education resources (and resource people) and links to recommended web sites.
International E-Mail Classroom Connections
This site helps teachers link with partners in other cultures and countries for email classroom pen-pal and other project exchanges. Since its creation in 1992, IECC has distributed over 28,000 requests for e-mail partnerships.
World Wise Schools
This program brings the Peace Corps cross-cultural experience to schoolchildren in the United States and helps to make a diverse world more familiar through lessons and literature.
Human Rights Resource Center
Online materials designed to help educators teach about human rights.
Southern Poverty Law Center
In 1991, Teaching Tolerance began supporting the efforts of K-12 teachers and other educators to promote respect for differences and an appreciation of diversity. This site offers access to “Teaching Tolerance” magazine.
World Press Review
Contains discussion ideas, links to resources, and an opportunity for a discounted subscription to the monthly magazine. Presents topics of significant international concern.
Model United Nations
Model United Nations, a simulation of U.N. multilateral bodies, introduces students to the world of diplomacy and negotiation.