United Nations
Un News Centre: Home
The United Nations provides daily news from around the world. Content also includes streaming audio news, fact sheets, UN documents, and much more.
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Projects by Jen: Home Page
Jennifer Wagner has gone on a mission to encourage teachers everywhere to incorporate technology into every classroom. Projects by Jen offers a wide range of projects for Pre-K to Grade 6 that involve connecting with other classrooms...
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Royal Ontario Museum
The Royal Ontario Museum is home to the art produced by diverse cultures from around the world, along with integrated facts regarding the natural history of those cultural regions. Highlights of the collections can be viewed from...
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Playbill: Home Page
One of the largest sources of theater news, features, listings, job opportunities, insider tidbits, and statistics on the Internet. An all-encompassing news outlet with links to theaters, festivals, and specialty companies around with...
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The Silk Road Home Sessions
The Silk Road creates music that engages difference, sparking radical cultural collaboration and passion-driven learning to build a more hopeful world. It presents concerts around the world.
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The Puppetry Home Page
The Puppetry Home Page provides lots of resources for puppeteers including news and puppetry organizations.
Curated OER
Google for Education: Children and Technology: Google Earth
A demo presentation using Google Earth to fly around the world, visiting notable visitor points around the globe.
BBC
Bbc: Around Scotland: Scotland During the Second World War
This interactive site looks at what the homefront of Scotland was like during WW II. The students take on the role of an enemy spy and work their way through the site, learning as they go. There is a separate teacher section. Archived.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade 2: The Best Place
Second graders explore different types of houses. They study the differences between a house and a home through various texts and learn that a home doesn't have to be a physical place. Students consider how children in various parts of...
Tech4Learning
Pics4 Learning: Images for Education: Houses
A large photo collection of various homes from around the world. Click on an image to enlarge it and read a brief description.
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Gapminder: Dollar Street
In this collection of 30,000 photos from 46 countries, students will be assess "how people really live" around the world. Students can compare bathrooms, toys, and more. Students will explore different cultures, economics, geography,...
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Cal Earth the California Institute of Earth Art and Architecture
Founded and directed by the internationally renowned architect and author Nader Khalili, this institute works to create homes from the earth using such materials as sand, clay, and dirt. Its mission is to create tree-less places for...
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Catholic Relief Services
Catholic Relief Services was founded in 1943 to assist the poor and disadvantaged in many countries around the world. This is their home website.
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Friends of the Earth International
The home page of Friends of the Earth International provides current information on issues of use and misuse of natural resources around the world.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Traditions at Home and Around the World
Each student will research his/her own family traditions and report findings to the class using presentation software. In partner groups, students will select a country to research. Their research will focus on traditions of a chosen...
Tech4Learning
Pics4 Learning: Images for Education: Castles
A treasury of photos of various castles from around the world! Although the images do not contain much information, they can be used as a visual reference for students of all grade levels.
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Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
OCLC, a global library cooperative, supports thousands of libraries in making information more accessible and more useful to people around the world. Membership in OCLC provides library users around the globe access to information and...
Princeton University
Princeton University: Qed: Mapping Globalization: Maps
Several historical maps showing steamship routes around 1900, ancient world maps, and shipping routes and lines in 1912, including those that passed through the Panama Canal.
Columbia University
Columbia University: Real? Virtual: Representing Architectural Time and Space
Learn about the history of architecture from this college-level introduction to the subject, which uses visually rich interactive panoramas and floor plans of important buildings to communicate the essential qualities of the architecture...
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United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
This is the home site for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. It has field offices in countries around the world and works to assist governments in the fight against international drug trafficking and crime.
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Care
Home page for CARE, the global help agency. Page lists current crisis areas around the world.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Let's Party!
Learn about family traditions and customs of celebrations at home and around the world.
US Energy Information Administration
U.s. Eia Energy Kids: Energy Explained
A comprehensive source of information about energy in all its forms. Each type of energy is explained, along with information about its environmental impact, supported with graphs, charts, and other data. There is a twenty-question quiz...
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Ipu: Women's Suffrage
American women could run for election in 1788, but could not vote until 1920. This and other ironies are revealed in this timeline that shows the progression of women's political rights in countries from around the world.