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Local Resources (from Wisconsin)
This project fills the need for current, authentic, culturally diverse resources, as well as support in teaching with and about music from different cultures. These educator-stated needs shaped the direction and goals of the collection. With Re/sound resources you can discover contemporary Wisconsin musicians who use their music to share about themselves, their cultures, their emotions, and so much more.
This resource gives teachers teaching materials related to the state music education standards. There are teaching plans and resources for all levels and classes of music.
A wealth of resources and lessons on teaching about the diverse populations that represent Wisconsin.
The Wisconsin Center for Environmental Education (WCEE) wants to help educators gain a better understanding of climate change. This is a great selection of resources for teaching about climate change including K-12 teaching guides, videos, books for youth, and web sites.
The state of Wisconsin places a high level of importance on global education. They provide guidance on how to teach this in your subject content.
Global Music Resources
The Kennedy Center has curated a wide variety of lesson and unit plans covering world art forms for all grade levels.
Teach Rock, sponsored by the Rock and Roll Forever Foundation, houses a wide variety of lesson plans covering music of all genres with interdisciplinary activities built in.
Radio Garden is an interactive website where you can spin the globe and hear what is playing on the radio around the world!
This page has a collection of multicultural brain breaks for students - music from around the world in small, quick videos.
El Education has a collection of work where student musicians of all grade levels contribute to their communities.
The American Federation of Teachers has curated lesson plans on this website. You will find plans for many world music genres.
Taking It Global has a great lesson plan on how music has been used in social change.
iearn has a collection of lesson plans for all disciplines, including the creative arts.
General Global Resources
Project Zero, founded by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has a collection of thinking routines to use in your classroom. These resources are available to use immediately - so instead of saying "Let's discuss..." click on this link to find a new way to open your students' minds!
The United Nations has a webpage to introduce the Sustainable Development Goals, along with each indicator and the progress being made. This page is very useful when having students research connections to the goals locally and globally.
The Global Oneness Project features a massive collection of stories, articles, and videos that are all on world issues. Materials cover a wide age range.
The United States Institute of Peace has a collection of lessons and activities to support learning about international conflict management and peacebuilding.
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