Utah Education Network
Uen: Where in the World Is Tacky the Penguin?
Art activity and a classroom graph that ties with the "Tacky the Penguin Series".
Utah Education Network
Uen: Around the World
Provides continent and ocean games to learn more about maps, globes, and the world.
The Newberry Library
Newberry: Political and Military History: Map 15: The World at War, 1944
Lesson for K-12 using historical map teaches students about the relationship between perspectives of the world and map projections.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Mapping Our Worlds
In this lesson, introduce your young scholars to the world of maps and discover a world of information online. Students learn how to identify different types of maps, comparing maps to the rooms of a house.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Expanding Horizons
IBiblio.org offers insight to the science, beliefs, and technologies of 15th and 16th century Europeans. Provides excellent images and examples.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Shakespeare for the Developmental Reader
Discover how you can open the door of Shakespeare to the developmental reader. This site offers insight into helping students understand Shakespeare's unfamiliar language.
Curated OER
Google for Education: Children and Technology: Google Earth
A demo presentation using Google Earth to fly around the world, visiting notable visitor points around the globe.
Other
Early Modern Literary Studies/globe Theatre
This site deals with the Globe Theatre. It discusses information regarding the opening day of the theatre in 1599.
Mariners' Museum and Park
Mariners' Museum: Education: Create a Globe [Pdf]
Simple instructions on how to make a globe using a pattern provided, scissors, glue, and a balloon. PDF
Shakespeare Globe Trust
The Shakespeare Globe Trust: Shakespeare's Globe
Learn the history of the Globe Theatre and take a look at today's rebuilt Globe.
Read Works
Read Works: Enrico Discovers a Globe
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Enrico who sees a globe at the library. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
The National Gallery (UK)
The National Gallery: Celestial Globe
As part of a larger exhibit on science and the history of scientific instruments, this site examines a detail from a painting by Olivier van Deuren which features a celestial globe. The globe is only one feature of the larger, more...
Center for Educational Technologies
Nasa: Classroom of the Future: Spheres: Lithosphere
At this site from the NASA Classroom of the Future, you can learn about the many different layers of the earth and see what the earth would look like cut in half.
Organization for Community Networks
Ofcn: Macbeth
Have you ever read any of Shakespeare's work that you don't quite understand? This site features a lesson plan for "Macbeth" that will help your learners understand and enjoy his work.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Seasonal Temperature Pattern Variation in Different Regions of the World
Learners use GLOBE climate science visualizations to display student data on maps and to learn about seasonal changes in regional and global temperature patterns.
PBS
Pbs Nova Online: Lost at Sea the Search for Longitude
"The quest for a reliable method to find your way at sea was one of the thorniest problems of the 1700s." Find out about the search for longitude at this NOVA site. Includes interactive Shockwave game, learning activities and more.
Mariners' Museum and Park
Mariners' Museum: Resources: Age of Exploration
Scroll to the bottom of this page to access activity resources and lesson plans that encourage students to explore an understand the practicalities and difficulties involved in sailing to new places during the Age of Exploration.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Equator and the Poles
This lesson plan provides hands-on activities that will teach students about the poles and the equator. Students will be labeling a globe, recreating a globe within the classroom, and researching information on the Internet.
Teachers.net
Teachers.net: Explore Latitude and Longitude With Pumpkins: Lesson Plan
Learners paint pumpkins to make their own globes in this fun way to learn longitude and latitude.
Other
Jack Wolcott: Elizabethan Theatre Resources
This site is essentially a link page on Elizatbethan Theatre Resources.
Other
Shakespeare Resource Center: Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Here you will find information on the history of the Globe Theatre.
NOAA
Noaa: Ngdc: Globe Project
Explore some topographic data at the Globe site. What environmental measurements are taken in the study? How are these measurements presented?
TES Global
Blendspace: The Globe Theatre
A seven-part learning module with links to a websites, images, and texts about the original Globe Theatre.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Parts of the Globe
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explores the vocabulary of studying the parts of the globe: north pole, south pole, equator, longitude, latitude, etc.