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Welcome to the Elementary Education Page for Maryland’s International Education Month! On this site you will find a variety of resources for use in the classroom and community to build understanding and inspire curiosity across continents with your students. By building bridges between people and their cultures across the world, we can develop mutual understanding and friendships, and inspire trust, respect, and peace in communities and the world. The teachers who have worked on these pages hope that you will be able to use these resources to increase student understanding and appreciation for a variety of cultures across the world. We hope this month will challenge and inspire us to listen, observe, share, and learn together, thus developing mutual understanding and unity within the state’s communities and throughout the world.
Welcome to the Elementary Education Page for Maryland’s International Education Month! On this site you will find a variety of resources for use in the classroom and community to build understanding and inspire curiosity across continents with your students. By building bridges between people and their cultures across the world, we can develop mutual understanding and friendships, and inspire trust, respect, and peace in communities and the world. The teachers who have worked on these pages hope that you will be able to use these resources to increase student understanding and appreciation for a variety of cultures across the world. We hope this month will challenge and inspire us to listen, observe, share, and learn together, thus developing mutual understanding and unity within the state’s communities and throughout the world.
If you have a lesson or idea that you wish to share to be added to our site in the future, please send your ideas to us for others to use!
If you have a lesson or idea that you wish to share to be added to our site in the future, please send your ideas to us for others to use!
International Education Month
International Education Month
Everyday Options
Everyday Options
Below is a sample calendar to help you celebrate International Education month, everyday. Feel free to use this calendar or create your own.
Ideas and Lesson Plans:
Ideas and Lesson Plans:
Here are some ideas and lesson plans (by subject areas) created by teachers from both public and independent schools in Maryland. Click the subject title to access the lesson plans.
Here are some ideas and lesson plans (by subject areas) created by teachers from both public and independent schools in Maryland. Click the subject title to access the lesson plans.
Interactive Links for Further Exploration:
Interactive Links for Further Exploration:
Here are some interactive links for you and your students to explore.
Here are some interactive links for you and your students to explore.
On this site you can find inspiration for lesson plans about the EU, and network to create opportunities with other schools and teachers across the EU.
The National Geographic Site has a plethora of resources including lesson plans, articles, infographics, and more to support bringing a global perspective to any unit of study. They also offer a yearly GeoBee event! Even if you are not ready to participate in the event this year, they have a wonderful "Study Corner" that includes kahoot quizzes and more on the GeoBee App!
The "Paul D. Coverdell World Wise Schools program, is designed to support educators so they can fully utilize Peace Corps’ global education programs to encourage their learners to become global citizens. " This website offers free, dynamic crosscultural classroom materials, literature, videos, stories, and lessons to enrich K–12 students, such as the Global Issues: Working With Communities module and the award winning educational game Peace Corps Challenge.
Get up! Get Moving! Get Energized! Play UNICEF Kid Power Ups to unlock ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) that will be delivered to severely malnourished children around the world.
"From film kits and lesson plans to the building blocks of a customized Learning Plan—texts, student tasks and teaching strategies—our resources will help you bring relevance, rigor and social emotional learning into your classroom—all for FREE. "
Classroom Guides for educators and students mainly at secondary and tertiary levels, but many can be adapted also for younger students as well as independent and home learning. Check out their cultural links also!
The National Security Agency partners with schools to develop the talent and tools needed to meet the United States’ future national security challenges. Some of its projects include funding summer camps, working directly with language students in the classroom, developing curricula for growing career fields such as cybersecurity, sponsoring competitions such as the Maryland Polyglot Games, hosting student interns and co-ops, and awarding research grants and funding research labs and projects. Its headquarters is located in Ft. Meade, Maryland.
World Connect partners with schools to help students gain greater appreciation of geography, culture and core philanthropic principles. World Connect Clubs enable students to learn about, discuss and vote on projects around which to center their education and fundraising efforts.
STARTALK’s mission is to increase the number of U.S. citizens learning, speaking, and teaching critical need foreign languages. STARTALK offers students (K–16) and teachers of these languages creative and engaging summer experiences that strive to exemplify best practices in language education and in language teacher development.
iLearn-USA supports an international community of K-12 educators and youth to collaborate and learn together on global projects designed as part of their regular classroom curriculum or after school program.
Virtual Museums:
Virtual Museums:
Here are some links to museums for artwork around the world to supplement your curriculum:
Here are some links to museums for artwork around the world to supplement your curriculum:
Community Building:
Community Building:
Here are some outlines for some clubs, activities and events that teachers from public and independent schools have used successfully.
Here are some outlines for some clubs, activities and events that teachers from public and independent schools have used successfully.
Community Event Community Culture dinner.pdfCommunity Culture Dinner
Community Culture Dinner
Celebrate culture over food.
International Culture Club.pdfInternational Culture Club
International Culture Club
Learn and celebrate diversity.
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