Teacher Resources

2012-2013 School Year

• Reading the Headlines: Interpreting Turkey 02/27/2013
• Women Making A Difference In East Africa: A Special Evening with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 01/30/2013
• Education without Borders: Featuring Asia Society Resources 01/16/2013
  CTQ slideshow on virtual teacher communities
• From Mao to Now 12/04/2012
• Online Games for Global Education – Resources for K-12 Teachers 11/14/2012
• Egypt: If King Tut Could Talk 11/01/2012

2011-2012 School Year

• Summer Activity Sheets 06/13/2012
• Chinese Gardens: A Gate to Understanding Chinese Culture 05/09/2012
• After the Storm: Spotlight on Post-Tsunami Japan 04/03/2012
• What the Rest of the World Can Learn from Turkey Today 03/20/2012
• Special Focus on Libya: Understanding the Arab Spring from the Inside 03/14/2012
• Tahrir Square: One Year Later 01/25/2012
• The World of Jimmy Carter 12/14/2011
• The Future of Afghanistan 11/22/2011
• Top Ten Things to Know About Pakistan 10/27/2011
• Online Exchanges and Global Collaborations for Every Classroom 10/05/2011;
  Updated 11/14/2012. Accompanying Slideshow
• Lessons for Korea: Two Decades of German Unification (Korea Resources) 09/13/2011
• Lessons for Korea: Two Decades of German Unification (Germany Resources) 09/13/2011

2010-2011 School Year

• Year of Club Activities 07/27/2011
• What Students Need to Know: How National Security and the Internet are Connected 05/09/2011
• Turkey in Our World Today: A Model for Democracy in the Muslim Middle East? 04/29/2011
• Protest and Participation in the Middle East: Exploring News Media Stereotypes and Bias 04/29/2011
• The Question(s) of Tibet 04/15/2011
• The Arctic: Who Owns it and How Long Will it Be There? 02/16/2011
• Exploring China Through Documentaries and Film 01/12/2011
• China’s Great Leap Into the 21st Century 11/08/2010
• Islam in a Globalized World 11/08/2010
• Picasso: Eyes on the World 10/27/2010

2009-2010 School Year

• The Changing Media: What Gets Covered Around the World and Why? 05/17/2010
• Who are the Uyghurs? Understanding China’s Silk Road Today 05/12/2010
• Understanding Turkey Today: What Makes Turks Tick 03/02/2010
• The Bottom Billion: Development for the Most Volatile Places on Earth 02/04/2010
• A Special Evening with Rick Steves: Travel as an Educational Act 01/27/2010
• North Korea on Our Minds and in Our Classrooms 01/12/2010
• A Week that Changed the World: WTO Ten Years Later 12/03/2009
• Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future with Lester Brown 11/12/2009
• The Khoomei-Taiko Project – Blending Old and New: Mongolian and Japanese Traditions 10/25/2009
• Saving the World’s Women: An Evening with Nicholas Kristof 10/15/2009

2008-2009 School Year

• How Internet Games and Virtual Worlds Can Help You Deliver More Global Education 05/20/2009
• Understanding the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 05/12/2009
• The End of Food: With a Special Focus on the Earth Charter 04/21/2009
• Turkey: Searching for a Cultural Center 03/10/2009
• Afghanistan on Our Minds and in Our Classrooms 02/25/2009
• China Matters: Exploring this Diverse Land and People 02/03/2009
  Accompanying PDF slideshow: Part 1, Part 2
• Central Africa: With a Special Focus on The Democratic Republic of the Congo 01/14/2009
• Teaching Iran in the Classroom: Understanding Iran 11/17/2008
• Waking Up to Russia: A Look at Russia from a Global Perspective 11/13/2008
• Ethiopia: Cradle of Humankind 10/23/2008
• China Matters: Exploring this Multidimensional Land and People (Why History? Historical Research on Current Events – Middle School CBA) 08/01/2008
• “Return of a Super Power: How History Can Help Us Understand the Role of Energy in Russian Foreign Policy Today” (Why History? – Middle School CBA) 08/01/2008
• Russia’s Sakhalin Island: When Oil, Nature, and Politics Collide” (Causes of Conflict – High School CBA) 08/01/2008
• Analyzing Nigeria’s Past with Hope for the Future” (Causes of Conflict – Middle School CBA) 08/01/2008
• “Choices and Consequences for the Niger Delta” (Humans and the Environment – High School CBA) 08/01/2008
• Curriculum Units on Venezuela (Causes of Conflict – High School CBA) 06/01/2008
• Trying to See the Light: Georgia’s Struggle through Post-Soviet Transition 05/30/2008

2007-2008 School Year

• The Japanese Approach to Environmental Issues 05/01/2008
• U.S. and Japanese Transportation Innovations in the 1950s and 1960s” (Meeting Needs and Wants – Middle School CBA) 05/01/2008
• China’s Environmental Challenge (Humans and the Environment – High School CBA) 04/24/2008
• The Green Olympics and After: China’s Environmental Challenge 04/24/2008
• Turkish Culture and Society: Where East Meets West (2008) 03/26/2008
• China: Factory of the World (Technology Through the Ages – High School CBA) 03/17/2008
• Fueling the Future: Peace or Conflict? An Examination of Fossil Fuels, Development, and Conflict with a Special Focus on China 03/12/2008
• Fueling the Future: Peace or Conflict? An Examination of Fossil Fuels, Development and Conflict with a Special Focus on Venezuela 02/12/2008
• The Golden Age of the Ottoman Empire: Suleiman the Magnificent (Dig Deep – Analyze Artifacts – Middle School CBA) 01/29/2008
• “Climate Change & Global Health” (Humans and the Environment – High School CBA) 01/15/2008
• Environmental Impact on Global Health 01/15/2008
• Fueling the Future: Peace or Conflict? The Resurgent Russian Energy Superpower 11/07/2007
• The U.S. and Russia: Missle Defense Plans and Echoes of the Cold War (U.S. Foreign Policy – High School CBA) 11/07/2007
• Fueling the Future: Peace or Conflict? An Examination of Fossil Fuels, Development and Conflict with a Special Focus on Nigeria 10/16/2007
• U.S. Foreign Aid In Nigeria and Elsewhere: Where Should U.S. Tax Dollars Be Spent? (U.S. Foreign Policy – High School CBA) 10/16/2007
• The U.S. Role in Iraq: What Teachers Need to Know 10/04/2007

2006 – 2007 School Year

• The Earth Charter: A Framework for Addressing Global Climate Change 05/01/2007
• My Name is Rachel Corrie 04/12/2007
• Japan on Our Minds 03/14/2007
• Challenges Facing Vietnam Today 02/12/2007
• Understanding Lebanon Today 02/01/2007
• Encounter Point 12/05/2006
• Most Dangerous Women: Bringing History to Life through Reader’s Theater 11/30/2006
• Why India Matters 11/14/2006
• Teaching Global and Local Conflict in the Classroom 10/23/2006
• Shaping Globalization: Economic & Social Justice — Can We Have It All? 10/16/2006

2005-2006 School Year

• Japan in Transition 05/01/2006
• The Earth Charter: Local & Global Connections for Earth Day03/30/2006
• Understanding the Balkans Today Through the Eyes of Two Writers 03/15/2006
• Brush and Ink 02/02/2006
• Understanding North Korea Today 01/24/2006
• Demystifying Global Security and Nuclear Terrorism Issues 11/14/2005
• Challenges Facing the Middle East 10/26/2005
• Beyond Islam: Understanding the Muslim World 10/01/2005
  Intro, Part 1: Pakistan, Part 2: The Muslim Experience in Modern-Day Europe, Part 3: Muslim’s in China’s Reform Era

Older Packets:

• Democracy in India 07/24/2004
• Understanding the World of Political Cartoons 11/06/2003
•  Linking Lands: A Partnership Between Seattle and Tanzania 01/01/2003
• Reading to Learn, Writing to Connect 06/30/2002