National Geographic
National Geographic: Interdependence
Use this interactive to explore how interconnected the global economy is. After creating a character, gather some clothes together and enter their origin information into your database. Then look at your own interdependence map and...
American Forum for Global Education
American Forum for Global Education: The New Frontier in Brazil: People and Environment
This is a lesson plan on the environmental aspects of economic development. Focusing on Brazil, the lesson takes young scholars through the pros and cons associated with development and how multiple players are involved.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Global Closet Calculator
Play this two-part interactive game to understand the interdependence and globalization of manufactured goods. By using the clothes in the closet, map out where the clothing is manufactured. The second part of the game investigates...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: The United States and Globalization
This self-guided unit addresses the economic interdependence of communities and countries across the globe and the economic development that is taking place. Included are lessons, self-assessments, background information, and learning...
Other
Water Encyclopedia: Globalization and Water
Learn how the increasing integration and interdependence of countries on water affects not only the production and consumption of products, but also culture, security, the environment, and the exchange of ideas.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Where Did You Come From?
This site is an excellent activity in which students explore the economic interdependence shared between the United States and Chile. Students will learn about the products imported from Chile and determine the reasons for trade between...
Canadian Museum of Nature
Canadian Museum of Nature: Sila: Clue Into Climate Change
The Arctic is where climate is changing at a faster pace than any other place in the world. Explore Water, Earth, Fire, and Air to investigate the basic elements that support all life and learn about the impact climate change is having...
American Forum for Global Education
American Forum for Global Education: Parts of You
This site is provided for by the American Forum for Global Education. Exploration of body parts is the format used to teach the economic concept of interdependence to primary students.
American Forum for Global Education
American Forum for Global Education: Challenge of the Desert
This elementary exploration of interdependence from the American Forum for Global Education touches on language arts, social studies, and science. Students understand the connection between themselves and their natural environment.
American Forum for Global Education
American Forum for Global Education: How Many Systems Do I Belong to Right Now?
This site is provided for by the American Forum for Global Education. Using the concept of belonging to groups, children come to understand the concept of economics as it applies to "People Systems", or interdependence and cooperation.
American Forum for Global Education
American Forum for Global Education: A Simple Chocolate Bar
This site is provided for by the American Forum for Global Education. Using a candy bar as a theme, students will explore their common link to other "systems on a global scale." Mutual dependence is a key concept taught in this lesson....
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Extreme Global Makeover: Wide Angle: Lesson Plan
Modernization is an important issue in many places, including China and India. Students explore how it may impact such areas as society, politics, the economy, and the environment.
Other
Benchmarks Online: Human Society
A wealth of information on topics such as, cultural effects on behavior, group behavior, social change, political and economic systems, social conflict,and global interdependence. Each topic is broken down in to benchmarks by age groups...
iCivics
I Civics: International Affairs
Students learn about the complex interactions that exist in our globalized world. They examine the evolution of diplomacy and international interdependence by looking at recent and historical global events. It includes games and...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Let Girls Learn: The White House
Learn more about Michelle Obama's global initiative Let Girls Learn, a government-wide effort helping to educate girls everywhere.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Climate Change and Ecosystems
Young scholars research the inter-dependencies among plants and animals in an ecosystem and explore how climate change affects those relationships and the ecosystem as a whole.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Problems Facing Internally Displaced Persons Worldwide
Young scholars use video segments from the PBS series Women, War & Peace, as well as information from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre and the United Nations to learn more about internally displaced populations.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Making a Difference in the Israeli Palestinian Conflict
Using segments from the PBS program: Wide Angle, this high school lesson explores the history and complexity of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and examines the roles individuals and organizations can play in promoting understanding and...
National Geographic
National Geographic: Society: The Trading Game
Students simulate the trading of goods between countries. Then they reflect on the challenges of trade between countries.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Planet Food: Explore the World Through Food
Students discover their own global food network by playing "Planet Food"-a two-part interactive game that introduces the concepts of interdependence and globalization through the geography of food.
Population Connection
United Nations Population Fund
This resource attempts to assist developing countries manage their population problems.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Why Is It Important to Educate Girls?: Pbs News Hour
When girls are allowed to go to school, they have a significant impact on their family and community. Learners learn and think critically about the variety of reasons why it is in everyone's best interest to ensure that all girls, across...