Global LearningCentre's List: Global Education : Resources

The Global Education Website is initiated and funded by AusAID to support its Global Education Program. The objective of the Global Education Website is to increase the amount and quality of teaching of global education in Australian primary and secondary schools. The site supports the AusAID Global Education Program which aims to raise awareness and understanding among Australian school students of international issues, development and poverty, and to prepare them to live in an increasingly globalised world and to be active citizens shaping better futures.

The Asia Education Foundation (AEF) is a joint activity of Asialink at the University of Melbourne and Curriculum Corporation. The AEF provides schools and teachers with a range of services to engage young Australians with Asia through studies of Asia. This website provides information about the range of AEF services offered including:
-curriculum resources
-advice for schools
-professional learning programmes
-study tours and conferences in Asia
-discussion group for teachers
-AEF news.

AskAsia is an online source for K-12 Asian and Asian American studies, offering access to high-quality, classroom-tested resources and cultural information, engaging games and activities, and links to relevant people, places, and institutions.

This site is for anyone interested in finding out or teaching about global issues. The aim is to provide activities and information about global issues, and share good and bad experiences of using the Internet as a resource for global education, particularly in school.

The teaching materials offered on this website are adaptable for students of a variety of ages, from upper-primary to year 12. These resources aim to give teachers material that they can use to inform students of the many activities that Oxfam Australia is involved in. The resources also encourage students to take personal action by planning, promoting and participating in activities to support the work of Oxfam Australia.

The Cyberschoolbus was created in 1996 as the online education component of the Global Teaching and Learning Project, whose mission it is to promote education about international issues and the UN. The Project produces teaching materials and activities designed for use at primary and secondary school levels, and for training teachers. The vision of this Project is to provide exceptional educational resources to students growing up in a world undergoing increased globalisation.

This website offers ideas for lessons plans and integrating refugee issues into the classroom as well as a wide range of educational resources. These Teaching Tools should help students to analyse, clarify, judge and acquire values in the following areas: empathy, self-respect, respect for others, global concern, environmental concern, open-mindedness, vision, and social responsibility.

Voices of Youth is an Internet site created by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for young people who want to know more, do more and say more about the world. It’s about linking children and adolescents in different countries to explore, speak out and take action on global issues that are important to them, and to creating a world fit for children.

On this website, linked to the World Bank, you'll find information about global issues that matter to young people today. Explore the research, knowledge and experience gathered by World Bank experts on issues like poverty, development, and conflict.

An independent, politically impartial worldwide movement, Amnesty International works to both promote and to defend human rights around the world. The site features a 'For Teachers' section containing lesson plans and various other teaching resources. The site also promotes 'Youth Action'.

Global Education Resources. Videos and photostories made by children around the world

A disaster simulation game from the UN/ISDR