International Project Based Learning Opportunities


  • Creative ConnectionsCreative Connections facilitates classroom-to-classroom exchanges through video conferencing and art exchange.
  • ePals Global CommunityePals allows teachers and students to connect with other classrooms or projects. Classrooms come together in a learning exchange through e-mail, blogs, or forums. There is also a translation service so that classrooms from different countries can work together. Project topic areas include global warming, habitats, maps, natural disasters, and water.
  • iEARN  
    Through iEARN, (International Education and Resource Network), teachers and students work with other schools and organizations worldwide to collaborate on a variety of educational projects. These include everything from written anthologies of creative writing, to researching of students’ own backgrounds, to fighting child labor across borders.
  • Global SchoolNetGlobal SchoolNet’s goal is to foster 21st century learning through internet-based collaboration. Teachers can find collaborative tools, resources, and various interactive programs for students. They can browse through current projects; find teachers and classrooms to work with; and learn about and engage in project-based learning initiatives.
  • Global Voices Global Voices is an online community of over 200 bloggers that collaborate and report on blogs from all over the world. This organization provides a unique resource for learning about current events from sources other than the traditional U.S. newspapers or magazines.
  • One World Youth ProjectThis organization pairs middle and high school student groups from around the world and assigns them a UN Millennium Development Goal on which to focus. At the end of their collaboration, each group creates a local service project.
  •    NRDC- Natural Resources Defense Council offers information on climate change and the environment.
             http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/climatebasics.asp
  •    PBS  Learningmedia: Global Learning and Awareness, has lots of resources for teaching global issues.
             http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/global-learning-and-awareness/?topic_id=919
            https://www.pinterest.com/
  •   Edudemic offers resources will inspire you to plan lessons that foster global awareness
            http://www.edudemic.com/globalized-classroom-2015/
  •  Peace Corps Connect Global TeachNet 
     Resources, networking and support to bring a global perspective into classrooms and communities managed by the National Peace  Corps Association.http://peacecorpsconnect.org/global-teachnet
  • Peace Corps Coverdell World Wise Schools 
    The Peace Corps Coverdell World Wise Schools program strives to help U.S. schoolchildren better understand and appreciate the diverse cultures and issues of the world by communicating with a Peace Corps Volunteer overseas through an exchange of letters, artifacts, photos, and artwork.http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/

  • This video brilliantly teaches about the world by looking at one hundred people.

Local Community Resources

Students in Charlottesville High School's Global Citizenship Class, discuss the need for acceptance of others, in their video "Beyond the Boxes", December 2014.

Sister Cities International
http://www.charlottesville.org/Index.aspx?page=1735
The City of Charlottesville is an active member of Sister Cities International, a nonprofit citizen diplomacy network that creates and strengthens partnerships between U.S. and international communities. This network strives to build global cooperation at the municipal level, promote cultural understanding and stimulate economic development.
  • Charlottesville is a sister city to:
  • Besancon, France
  • Pleven, Bulgaria.
  • Poggio a Caiano, Italy.
  • Winneba, Ghana.

UVA International Studies Office
http://iso.virginia.edu/
The International Studies Office (ISO), a division of UVa Global, is a University-wide resource which contributes to UVa's global mission through activities, programs and services designed to support the development of a globally aware, culturally diverse education and research environment. Through the International Students and Scholars Program, UVa Education Abroad, and the Lorna Sundberg International Center, the ISO provides expertise and infrastructure to help expand and sustain global education at the University of Virginia.

The International Rescue Committee, Charlottesville
http://www.rescue.org/
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. At work in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities to restore safety, dignity and hope, the IRC leads the way from harm to home. There are many ways people can become involved to help the IRC in Charlottesville, and we have many refugee children in our schools.

The Kluge-Ruhe
http://www.kluge-ruhe.org/
The only museum in the United States dedicated to the exhibition and study of Australian Aboriginal Art

Tools for Globalizing Our Standards

http://asiasociety.org/global-competence
This website offers  resources to help implement global competence in your school or classroom in all subject areas.

http://www.globaleducation.edu.au/
This website also contains resources to help teachers in all curriculum areas add a global perspective to their classrooms. 

 http://www.globalschoolnet.org/
Global SchoolNet's main purpose is to help teachers find collaborative learning partners and appropriate projects which engage students in brain-friendly e-learning projects worldwide to develop science, math, literacy and communication skills, foster teamwork, civic responsibility and collaboration, encourage workforce preparedness and create multi-cultural understanding

Below is an example of how we can integrate global education into our 8th grade reading and writing strands at Buford.