Global Learning Resource Center
There is so much to learn about the world and so little time. With only a few short months, the goal of this class cannot be to create experts in the field of global studies -- this would be impossible. Instead, a worthy goal is to create interest and hope that this might inspire a few students to continue their quest for knowledge about the world. This web page was created with this goal in mind. I encourage you to look around, have fun, and get lost in the amazing diversity and complexity of the place we call home.
Much of this page comes from Larry Ferlazzo's excellent collection of global learning resources.
The ones in BLUE were student submissions.
Much of this page comes from Larry Ferlazzo's excellent collection of global learning resources.
The ones in BLUE were student submissions.
Global Issues - What problems is the world facing today?
Gapminder provides a "fact-based worldview" to students who are interested in comparing and contrasting countries across time. The interactive Gapminder bubble chart helps illustrate how the world got to where it is now.
If It Were My Home is a cool web site that allows students to quickly compare their country with other countries. Find out how much less you would make or how much less energy you would use if you lived in another country.
The MDG Progress Index provides an interactive map to let users check in on the progress of the different countries as they strive to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Click on the countries to see graphs and other relevant data.
Global Issues has a tone of information and hyperlinks on the social, political, economic, and environmental issues that affect us all.
This blog page has an awesome collection of Infographics to Educate the World About Human Rights. Each author of this blog uses the images to tell a story about human rights in the world. This is a great stop for a lot of easy-to-access information.
Slavery Footprint is a really cool interactive web site that calculates how many slaves (theoretically) work for you by determining your purchasing habits.
The Global Education First Initiative, presented by the UN, has a bunch of cool education based infographics.
ViewChange.Org has some pretty amazing short videos from around the world. This is how it describes itself: Using the power of video to tell stories about real people and progress in global development.
Urban Survivors is a very well-done interactive examining four slums around the world.
“What Eating At The Poverty Line Is Like Around The World” is a very interesting slideshow and project. The photos portray the food that a person in different countries can afford to purchase if they live in poverty.
Disease and death around the world visualised is from The Guardian.
The Poverty Line is a new interactive that, as the BBC says:…calculates how much money people living at the poverty line have to spend on food each day.
The Global Rich List allows you to see exactly where you rank in the world in terms of wealth.
General Motors shows what can happen when large companies use their resources and ingenuity for the greater good. Photos, videos, and infographics tell the story of GM's Waste Reduction Sites around the world.
Free Rice donates rice every time you get a vocabulary questions correct. Give it a try.
A new report came out reviewing life expectancies — and quality of life — in countries all throughout the world. In addition, it compared its results with a similar report issued twenty years ago. The Washington Post turned the results into a fascinating interactive, and The Guardian did, too. What’s even more interesting is that their interactives look different, and work in different ways.
15 current Environmental Problems that our world is facing and different ways to prevent it.
Education is also the problem we are facing currently. Barriers to education around the world.
Wealth Inequality in Africa let's poverty grow and rich people get richer.
The Global Oneness Project explores cultural, environmental, and social issues through film, photo essays, and articles.
Brought to you by The Business Insider, these are the 10 most serious problems in the world, according to millennials.
6 Oscar-nominated films that address global issues.
A list if the biggest global problems, reviewed by 80,000 Hours.
Freedom House lets you see how "free" a specific country is. Try it out?
Al Jazeera offers interesting stories about people from around the world.
These games are interactive lessons to teach students about global issues.
Project 1324 supports, connects, and amplifies a global community of emerging artists who are using creativity as a force for positive impact.
If It Were My Home is a cool web site that allows students to quickly compare their country with other countries. Find out how much less you would make or how much less energy you would use if you lived in another country.
The MDG Progress Index provides an interactive map to let users check in on the progress of the different countries as they strive to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Click on the countries to see graphs and other relevant data.
Global Issues has a tone of information and hyperlinks on the social, political, economic, and environmental issues that affect us all.
This blog page has an awesome collection of Infographics to Educate the World About Human Rights. Each author of this blog uses the images to tell a story about human rights in the world. This is a great stop for a lot of easy-to-access information.
Slavery Footprint is a really cool interactive web site that calculates how many slaves (theoretically) work for you by determining your purchasing habits.
The Global Education First Initiative, presented by the UN, has a bunch of cool education based infographics.
ViewChange.Org has some pretty amazing short videos from around the world. This is how it describes itself: Using the power of video to tell stories about real people and progress in global development.
Urban Survivors is a very well-done interactive examining four slums around the world.
“What Eating At The Poverty Line Is Like Around The World” is a very interesting slideshow and project. The photos portray the food that a person in different countries can afford to purchase if they live in poverty.
Disease and death around the world visualised is from The Guardian.
The Poverty Line is a new interactive that, as the BBC says:…calculates how much money people living at the poverty line have to spend on food each day.
The Global Rich List allows you to see exactly where you rank in the world in terms of wealth.
General Motors shows what can happen when large companies use their resources and ingenuity for the greater good. Photos, videos, and infographics tell the story of GM's Waste Reduction Sites around the world.
Free Rice donates rice every time you get a vocabulary questions correct. Give it a try.
A new report came out reviewing life expectancies — and quality of life — in countries all throughout the world. In addition, it compared its results with a similar report issued twenty years ago. The Washington Post turned the results into a fascinating interactive, and The Guardian did, too. What’s even more interesting is that their interactives look different, and work in different ways.
15 current Environmental Problems that our world is facing and different ways to prevent it.
Education is also the problem we are facing currently. Barriers to education around the world.
Wealth Inequality in Africa let's poverty grow and rich people get richer.
The Global Oneness Project explores cultural, environmental, and social issues through film, photo essays, and articles.
Brought to you by The Business Insider, these are the 10 most serious problems in the world, according to millennials.
6 Oscar-nominated films that address global issues.
A list if the biggest global problems, reviewed by 80,000 Hours.
Freedom House lets you see how "free" a specific country is. Try it out?
Al Jazeera offers interesting stories about people from around the world.
These games are interactive lessons to teach students about global issues.
Project 1324 supports, connects, and amplifies a global community of emerging artists who are using creativity as a force for positive impact.
Culture Corner - What makes each culture unique? What makes us all human?
Which country shares your values? is from The PBS News Hour. This is a really short and interesting quiz.
Culture Crossing is a unique resource for information about different countries. It provides some basic demographics, but it also details about communication style, dress, gestures, etc. It’s unlike any other source of information about countries that’s on the web. I’ll certainly be having my students use it now when they develop reports about countries.
Toy Stories is a fascinating series of photographs of children around the world posing with their favorite toys.
What The World Eats is a TIME Magazine slideshow with family photos from around the world and the food they eat.
Here are portraits of 30 statistically average families with all of their worldly possessions displayed outside their homes.
This Washington Post article has a couple cool infographics that show internet usage around the world.
National Flags Created From the Foods Each Country Is Commonly Associated With is from Visual News.
Schools Around The World is a nice photo gallery from The Boston Globe.
World Music is an awesome site that allows learners to explore the music traditions from around the world.
Houses around the World, Wonderful Houses Around the World, and Homes Around The World all have images of….homes in different parts of the world.
Learn about Celebrations Around The World.
“Family.Life” is a Syracuse University project that ” explores family as the center of life around the world.” The images are indexed by theme, a few of which you can see in the image at the top of this post. You can read more about what they’ve done at The New York Times article headlined A Global Look at Family and Life.
I bet students would like to learn what schools in other countries serve for lunch. They can atSchool Lunches Around The World, School Meals From Around the World, and What’s For School Lunch?
11 School Lunches from around the World shows what the title describes, along with additional information about how the actual school lunch process works in each country.
World Music at National Geographic is a must-see site.
Photo Essay: Classrooms Around the World is a very interesting series of photos. (Thanks toLangwitches for the tip)
Where children sleep is the title of a book and a slideshow from The Telegraph showing images of children’s bedrooms from around the world — and the obviousness inequities.
What Colors Mean Across 10 Cultures is an interesting infographic. Here are two similar infographics, though these are interactive. They look pretty neat though, I have to say, they may bee a little too wild for some students to easily understand (well, they were tricky for me, at least). And they both have the same title — Interactive Colors In Culture. And here’s the other one.
Slate has a slideshow showing classrooms from throughout the world.
11 fascinating funeral traditions from around the globe is from TED Talks.
The Fourth Grade Project: Life Through the Eyes of 7 Kids From Around the World is from The Huffington Post.
Back to School: Classroom Portraits by Julian Germain is from TIME.
What Beauty Looks Like, From Argentina to Vietnam is from The Atlantic.
MAP: The most popular sport in every country is from Vox.
The amazing diversity of languages around the world, in one map is also from Vox.
The New Yorker has a slideshow of student uniforms from around the world.
What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets is the title of a slideshow from The Telegraph. Here is how they describe it: Husband-and-wife team Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio, from California, spent three years and $1 million visiting 80 individuals around the world to document what they eat on a single day. The result is a contrasting picture of what people around the globe consume. With each image Menzel and D’Aluisio add context to the profiles with essays on food politics and cultural obsessions with diet. Here is a selection of images from the book. “Around The World Via A Day’s Worth Of Foods” is a slideshow from TIME Magazine based on the same book.
Don’t Get Me Wrong! Global Gestures is a pretty neat slideshow from LIFE.
25 Fascinating Charts Of Negotiation Styles Around The World is from Business Insider.
The General History Project exists to preserve the oral and cultural history in developing countries.
The Ultimate Guide to Etiquette is a pretty cool interactive map that shows etiquette rules around the world.
What School Lunches Look Like In 20 Countries Around The World is a nice post from BuzzFeed.
I’ve previously posted about extraordinary interactive infographics made by the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times that show how people in the United States spend their time. Now, The Economist has published a chart that compares and contrasts kind of data among different countries.
Eric Lafforga has some amazing photographic portraits taken from around the world. Click on “Portfolio” and then a country. You’ll then be led to countless excellent photos.
The Guardian has published two slideshows showing “health messages” from around the world.
Even though I’m not thrilled at the BBC’s title for slideshow, World’s weirdest festivals, I’m still adding it to list.
The world’s favourite foods is a very interesting interactive map from The Guardian.
Kids Around the World offers stories of children from different countries.
I think the title of Slate’s slideshow is culturally insensitive, The world’s wackiest modes of public transportation, but the photos themselves are interesting.
Color My Ride is an interesting infographic from the Wall Street Journal examining the color of people’s cars in different countries (yes, you read that right).
One Day On Earth is where people all over the world make videos of what they did on the same day.
Culture Crossing is a unique resource for information about different countries. It provides some basic demographics, but it also details about communication style, dress, gestures, etc. It’s unlike any other source of information about countries that’s on the web. I’ll certainly be having my students use it now when they develop reports about countries.
Toy Stories is a fascinating series of photographs of children around the world posing with their favorite toys.
What The World Eats is a TIME Magazine slideshow with family photos from around the world and the food they eat.
Here are portraits of 30 statistically average families with all of their worldly possessions displayed outside their homes.
This Washington Post article has a couple cool infographics that show internet usage around the world.
National Flags Created From the Foods Each Country Is Commonly Associated With is from Visual News.
Schools Around The World is a nice photo gallery from The Boston Globe.
World Music is an awesome site that allows learners to explore the music traditions from around the world.
Houses around the World, Wonderful Houses Around the World, and Homes Around The World all have images of….homes in different parts of the world.
Learn about Celebrations Around The World.
“Family.Life” is a Syracuse University project that ” explores family as the center of life around the world.” The images are indexed by theme, a few of which you can see in the image at the top of this post. You can read more about what they’ve done at The New York Times article headlined A Global Look at Family and Life.
I bet students would like to learn what schools in other countries serve for lunch. They can atSchool Lunches Around The World, School Meals From Around the World, and What’s For School Lunch?
11 School Lunches from around the World shows what the title describes, along with additional information about how the actual school lunch process works in each country.
World Music at National Geographic is a must-see site.
Photo Essay: Classrooms Around the World is a very interesting series of photos. (Thanks toLangwitches for the tip)
Where children sleep is the title of a book and a slideshow from The Telegraph showing images of children’s bedrooms from around the world — and the obviousness inequities.
What Colors Mean Across 10 Cultures is an interesting infographic. Here are two similar infographics, though these are interactive. They look pretty neat though, I have to say, they may bee a little too wild for some students to easily understand (well, they were tricky for me, at least). And they both have the same title — Interactive Colors In Culture. And here’s the other one.
Slate has a slideshow showing classrooms from throughout the world.
11 fascinating funeral traditions from around the globe is from TED Talks.
The Fourth Grade Project: Life Through the Eyes of 7 Kids From Around the World is from The Huffington Post.
Back to School: Classroom Portraits by Julian Germain is from TIME.
What Beauty Looks Like, From Argentina to Vietnam is from The Atlantic.
MAP: The most popular sport in every country is from Vox.
The amazing diversity of languages around the world, in one map is also from Vox.
The New Yorker has a slideshow of student uniforms from around the world.
What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets is the title of a slideshow from The Telegraph. Here is how they describe it: Husband-and-wife team Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio, from California, spent three years and $1 million visiting 80 individuals around the world to document what they eat on a single day. The result is a contrasting picture of what people around the globe consume. With each image Menzel and D’Aluisio add context to the profiles with essays on food politics and cultural obsessions with diet. Here is a selection of images from the book. “Around The World Via A Day’s Worth Of Foods” is a slideshow from TIME Magazine based on the same book.
Don’t Get Me Wrong! Global Gestures is a pretty neat slideshow from LIFE.
25 Fascinating Charts Of Negotiation Styles Around The World is from Business Insider.
The General History Project exists to preserve the oral and cultural history in developing countries.
The Ultimate Guide to Etiquette is a pretty cool interactive map that shows etiquette rules around the world.
What School Lunches Look Like In 20 Countries Around The World is a nice post from BuzzFeed.
I’ve previously posted about extraordinary interactive infographics made by the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times that show how people in the United States spend their time. Now, The Economist has published a chart that compares and contrasts kind of data among different countries.
Eric Lafforga has some amazing photographic portraits taken from around the world. Click on “Portfolio” and then a country. You’ll then be led to countless excellent photos.
The Guardian has published two slideshows showing “health messages” from around the world.
Even though I’m not thrilled at the BBC’s title for slideshow, World’s weirdest festivals, I’m still adding it to list.
The world’s favourite foods is a very interesting interactive map from The Guardian.
Kids Around the World offers stories of children from different countries.
I think the title of Slate’s slideshow is culturally insensitive, The world’s wackiest modes of public transportation, but the photos themselves are interesting.
Color My Ride is an interesting infographic from the Wall Street Journal examining the color of people’s cars in different countries (yes, you read that right).
One Day On Earth is where people all over the world make videos of what they did on the same day.
The Places We Live is an impressive multimedia presentation. is how it’s described: In 2008 more people live in cities than in rural areas. One third of city dwellers, more than a billion people, live in slums. In The Places We Live, Magnum photographer Jonas Bendiksen presents sixteen homes in four different slum areas: Caracas, Venezuela; Mumbai, India; Nairobi, Kenya; and Jakarta, Indonesia.
The BBC Close Up series features videos that:…focus on aspects of life in countries and cities around the world. What may seem ordinary and familiar to the people who live there can be surprising to those who do not.
Unicef photos of the year 2011 is from The Guardian.
World’s Worst Cultural Mistakes is a pretty interesting slideshow from Travel and Leisure magazine.
Bureaucratics: A Global Portrait of Red Tape is from Brain Pickings.
How Americans spend money, compared with other countries is a chart from The Washington Post.
Getting Around Town is a Wall Street Journal slideshow of transportation images from around the world.
We Are What We Eat is a pretty amazing interactive infographic on food habits in the U.S. and around the world.
Readers Around The World is a fascinating infographic map.
The world’s most miserable countries is an infographic from The Washington Post.
Death is not the end: Fascinating funeral traditions from around the globe is from TED.
For a rich country, America is unusually religious and optimistic is an interesting infographic from The Washington Post.
What the world values, in one chart is from Vox.
What People Around the World Dream About is from The Atlantic.
11 American Behaviors That Are Considered Rude Around the World is from Mental Floss.
How stories are told around the world is from TED Talks.
When you ask people around the world what makes them happy, these are just some of the answers. is from Upworthy.
How your disposable income compares to other people’s around the world is from The Washington Post.
Toy Stories is a fascinating series of photographs of children around the world posing with their favorite toys.
How The Average American Work Week Compares To The Rest Of The World is a series of infographics from Fast Company
Currency By Country is a useful infographic.
East Meets West: An Infographic Portrait is a very intriguing series.
Assess Your Cultural Profile is an intriguing interactive from the Harvard Business Review.
Jawbone compares the number of steps people take each day and the amount they sleep in cities from around the world.
Around The World In 8 Hospital Meals is from NPR.
Hungry Planet: What The World Eats is a TIME slideshow.
Global Parenting Habits That Haven’t Caught On In The U.S. is from NPR
Countries and their National Sports from QuickG's.
10 Unique Parenting Styles from Around the World.
Different Gender Roles in different countries.
12 Surprising Customs from Around the world by the culture trip.
The 9 Most Bizarre Cultural Beauty Practices in the World by traveller's blog.
10 unique spring traditions/festivals from around world by Accuweather.
45 Fascinating Wedding Traditions from Around the World.
10 Jaw Dropping Rituals/Traditions performed around the world. Most of them are quite unusual.
Common American Customs that are considered offensive in other countries.
First school day traditions around the world. The United States does not really have one.
Different Schooling Methods around the world.
The Smithsonian offers knowledge on many subjects including art, science, history, and culture.
Google Arts & Culture allows you to explore stories from around the world.
International NGO Resources
Find organizations in all parts of the world with just a few clicks of the button at the World Associations of Non-Governmental Association.
Give Well is a web site that features 17 of the best organization in the world.
The Plastic Bank converts ocean plastic waste into useful items to stop ocean plastic and poverty.
6 charity apps that making giving fun, quick, and easy.
Give Well is a web site that features 17 of the best organization in the world.
The Plastic Bank converts ocean plastic waste into useful items to stop ocean plastic and poverty.
6 charity apps that making giving fun, quick, and easy.
Infographics Gallery - What can images teach us about the world?
14 Infographics of the Biggest Global Development Moments of 2014 is a great place to start.
Visually is a web site that helps people create visually beautiful content. They have some cool infographics on Tropically Neglected Diseases.
Visually is a web site that helps people create visually beautiful content. They have some cool infographics on Tropically Neglected Diseases.
Just For Fun (a collection of random tidbits from around the world)
Here animal sounds in different languages at this site. Here is how it describes itself: All around the world, animal sounds are being heard in the language of the animal’s region or country. A dog’s bark or a cat’s meow in Canada may be understood as a completely different sound or word in Turkey or China. The differences in onomatopoeia, as animal sounds in different languages are formally known as, can be striking and to prove it we got together with a group of native speakers and recorded their “animal sounds”. We had a great time doing it and hope you enjoy it too!
55555, or, How to Laugh Online in Other Languages is from The Atlantic.
10 Ways to Offend People in Other Countries is from When On Earth.
Rude hand gestures of the world comes from The Telegraph.
Chart: Americans are in an unusually good mood — all the time is from The Washington Post.
How Parents Around the World Describe Their Children, in Charts is a fascinating report of an the results from an international survey.
It’s very interactive and visual. The YouTube Trends Map shows which videos are popular in different regions of the United States and in many countries of the world, along with further filtering by the age of viewers.
What American Parents Need to Do Better: Lessons from the Rest of the World is from Yahoo News.
Photos Capture The Joy On Playgrounds Around The World is from NPR.
13 Things That Americans Do That The Rest Of The World Just Finds Bizarre is from Business Insider.
Exams Around the World is a fascinating photo gallery from The Atlantic.
A history of cities in 50 buildings – interactive is from The Guardian.
How Often People in Various Countries Shower is from The Atlantic.
Learn more about Movie Snacks Around the World and Infographic Design from Lemonly.
How do comics reflect the countries they were created in? is from The BBC.
Shooting hoops around the world: Stunning pictures of basketball courts capture world’s workout below a single common hoop is from The Daily Mail.
The McDonald’s meals abroad that may come as a surprise... is from The Daily Mail.
Gamers’ Tastes Around the World is a chart from The Wall Street Journal.
The definitive guide to how people around the world snack is from The Washington Post.
Here’s What The “American Food” Section Of A UK Grocery Store Looks Like is from BuzzFeed.
Today’s key fact: you are probably wrong about almost everything is a series of charts from The Guardian showing how people’s perceptions vary from reality on a number of different topics — divided by country.
A World of Beloved Books (According to Facebook) is from The Atlantic.
Why do pigs oink in English, boo boo in Japanese, and nöff-nöff in Swedish? is from The Guardian.
A short history of the Boxing Day Test.
A world of ideas, brought to you by Aeon.
Explore ideas of technology, business, art, or science through TED.
This interactive map lets you put your own "layers" based on historical data on various subjects.
55555, or, How to Laugh Online in Other Languages is from The Atlantic.
10 Ways to Offend People in Other Countries is from When On Earth.
Rude hand gestures of the world comes from The Telegraph.
Chart: Americans are in an unusually good mood — all the time is from The Washington Post.
How Parents Around the World Describe Their Children, in Charts is a fascinating report of an the results from an international survey.
It’s very interactive and visual. The YouTube Trends Map shows which videos are popular in different regions of the United States and in many countries of the world, along with further filtering by the age of viewers.
What American Parents Need to Do Better: Lessons from the Rest of the World is from Yahoo News.
Photos Capture The Joy On Playgrounds Around The World is from NPR.
13 Things That Americans Do That The Rest Of The World Just Finds Bizarre is from Business Insider.
Exams Around the World is a fascinating photo gallery from The Atlantic.
A history of cities in 50 buildings – interactive is from The Guardian.
How Often People in Various Countries Shower is from The Atlantic.
Learn more about Movie Snacks Around the World and Infographic Design from Lemonly.
How do comics reflect the countries they were created in? is from The BBC.
Shooting hoops around the world: Stunning pictures of basketball courts capture world’s workout below a single common hoop is from The Daily Mail.
The McDonald’s meals abroad that may come as a surprise... is from The Daily Mail.
Gamers’ Tastes Around the World is a chart from The Wall Street Journal.
The definitive guide to how people around the world snack is from The Washington Post.
Here’s What The “American Food” Section Of A UK Grocery Store Looks Like is from BuzzFeed.
Today’s key fact: you are probably wrong about almost everything is a series of charts from The Guardian showing how people’s perceptions vary from reality on a number of different topics — divided by country.
A World of Beloved Books (According to Facebook) is from The Atlantic.
Why do pigs oink in English, boo boo in Japanese, and nöff-nöff in Swedish? is from The Guardian.
A short history of the Boxing Day Test.
A world of ideas, brought to you by Aeon.
Explore ideas of technology, business, art, or science through TED.
This interactive map lets you put your own "layers" based on historical data on various subjects.
Global YouTube
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This is a great video…Here’s how it’s described: #HIPHOPISHIPHOP is a Hip Hop version of “We Are The World” charity single. 14 rappers from 14 different countries express their love for Hip Hop in their own languages and styles. All profits will be donated for children’s education through UNICEF.
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Playing for Change remakes popular songs using musicians from around the world. This video is a remake of Bob Marley's "One Love."
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This is a video of a 17 year old from Afghanistan stranded in Serbia, who's trying to cross into the European Union, traveling alone, continue to try to do just that, putting themselves at real risk in their efforts, exploited by smugglers, beaten by border guards, with limited, coordinated services in place across the Balkans to ensure their safety and protection.
A video about the world’s biggest problems with some great statistics. The United Nations is already taking action to better the world over the next 15 years. |
A short film about the need to solve the climate change problem narrated by Morgan Freeman.
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