UWSSLEC LibGuides: Cultural Diversity: Teacher Tools

Classroom Tools

ClassroomTools.Net
Easily create free educational games, quizzes, activities and diagrams. Click on the links found on the right hand margin to create great classroom resources.
World Atlas
Explore the world using this site. WWW.Worldatlas.com allows you to gather information for any geography question.
TeAchnology
TeAchnology provides free and easy to use resources for teachers to use in the classroom
Kathy Schrocks Guide for Educators
This website is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum in almost all disciplines.
Time for Kids
This website provides an enormous amount of information focusing on current events from around the world.
Diversity Calandar
The University of Kansas Medical Center created this website. It shows dates and descriptions of celebrations from around the world.
Pics4Learning
This website is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students.
Mulitcultural Awareness Activities
This link is created by the EdChange project by Paul C. Gorski. It has a lot of great resources to help create cultural awareness in classrooms.
Awareness Quizzes
This link is created by the EdChange project by Paul C. Gorski. It has some quizzes available to help determine our students cultural knowledge.
Middle School Teacher Resources
This website was created by Julie Greller. It has a plethora of information for all disciplines.
Teacher Tube
Teacher Tube is a website that houses video clips that focus on topics geared towards teachers.
Team Building Activites
Teampedia.net is a collaborative encyclopedia of free team building activities, free icebreakers, teamwork resources, and tools.
Pictures for Learning
Here you will find a list of images found in the Pics4Learning collections.
The Library of Congress
Fact Monster
Fact Monster is full of information that is provided by Information Please. This is a great tool for teachers to use.
Sound Effects and Music
www.shambles.net provides sounds and music clips for use in classrooms.
Worksheet Creator
www.worksheetworks.com is a website that creates worksheets specifically for your classroom.
Free Sounds
http://soungle.com provides sound effects to use for your classroom projects.

Diversity Activites for Schools

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Click on the picture to view a lesson plan to teach students about Holidays from Around the World.

Students celebrate diversity with multicultural event
Article written by Janet Fields and published by the Independent Tribune on November 14, 2010.
Multicultural Materials
Links Provided by Dr. Linda Alexander
Teachihng Tolerance and Diversity to Kids
Article written by Emily Rosenbaum and published on December 3, 2010 by www.babble.com.
National Holidays Around the World
This website is brought to you by Scholastic. Here you will find information about holidays celebrated around the world.
Lesson Plan-Cultural Allies
This lesson is brought to you by teacher.nick.com.
Culture Quest World Tour
Use www.ipl.org to learn about different cultures around the world.
Celebrate Your Heritage Lesson Plan
This lesson plan is brought to you by Scholastic.
Peacecorps-Wordwise
Find a wealth of lessons and activities based on Peace Corps stories that will help students understand people and cultures of the world.
Multicultural Education Lesson plans
Here is a list of lesson plans brought to you by The Educator's Reference Desk.
Diversity Activites for Middle Schoolers
The resources on this site were gathered by DiversityCouncil.org from Rochester MN. This council was formed to help combat racism and discrimination in Rochester school.
School Events that Celebrate Diversity
Round the World With Us is a blog created by the Keller family who is backpacking around the world.
Unite the School

Maps

Click on the above logo for some great map resources.

Click on the refdesk icon for Atlas and Map resources.

World Mapper
Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.
World Maps
Use Geology.com to learn more about countries and their cultures.
US Maps and Data
This link is brought to you by Geodata.gov.
World Digital Library
National libraries and the United Nations education agency have put some of humanity's earliest written works online in the World Digital Library.

Books

The uses of diversity; a book of essays by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith),
Call Number: PR 4453 .C4 A16 T92 1920
Multiculturalism and Learning Style: Teaching and Counseling Adolescents by Shirley A. Griggs
ISBN: 0275964809

Websites To Use With SmartBoards

Smartboard Lessons
Smartboard Lessons created by Longwood Central School District Staff.
Smart Exchange-Smartboard Lessons
Find Lesson Plans for Your SMART Board and Connect with Teachers

Articles on Diversity

Click on the picture to read the article Teaching Our Kids about Cultural Diversity by Jennifer Shakeel