The Global Classrooms^® Curriculum

Since 2000, Global Classrooms has offered a variety of curricular units dealing with issues in: Peacekeeping, Human Rights, Sustainable Development, and The Economics of Globalization. Each unit deals with specific issues that have been at the fore-front of important debates in global affairs.

Given the ever changing and continually evolving dynamics of the international landscape, Global Classrooms is in the process of revising and updating its curriculum units to reflect important progress and developments in the areas of Sustainable Development, Peacekeeping and The Economics of Globalization. Later this year, we will release an updated Human Rights curriculum unit that reflects current trends and debates within the realm of Global Human Rights. More information on the updated 2010 edition of the Human Rights unit can be found here.

Curriculum Lesson Plans

At the heart of each curriculum unit are step-by-step lesson plans that begin with an introduction to the United Nations and culminate with a simulation of the Security Council, Commission on Sustainable Development or Commission on Human Rights.

All lessons are aligned with standards in:

• Social studies (from the National Council for Social Studies);
• English language arts (from the International Reading Association/National Council for Teachers of English);
• Geography (from the National Geography Content Standards); and
• Civics and government (from the US Department of Education).

Lesson plans incorporate instructional strategies based on "best practice" methodologies in teaching social studies and literacy.

In conjunction with the lessons, the Reference/Resource sections provide extra support materials, primary documents, a glossary of terms and acronyms, and Internet resources.