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Global Lesson Plan Summary



Description: This activity required me to create a lesson that taught global thinking skills. To do this I needed to find ideas for lessons that required students to utilize technology to learn to think globally. Luckily I have used websites like iEARN before to teach global education. This time I decided to branch out and use some of the lessons described by Dr. Williamson in the lesson summary. For this particular lesson I utilized Teacher's Domain because I was blown away by the number of lessons available on World Religions and Anthropological topics such as religion, marriage, etc. There are Quick Time videos, worksheet templates, and websites that have specific information on the religions we are studying. All of the lessons fit very nicely with the ISTE and DE standards, which was obviously very important to me. Attached is a copy of the lesson on the Islamic faith.

Reflection: Wow, what a great activity. This was so applicable to me because I currently teach Anthropology and had just about given up on finding any new and innovative lessons on these topics. The textbook that I have is terribly boring and really geared towards college students. Because I have students in 9-12 grade in my class and I have taught this class for the past five years I felt as though my creative juices were running dry. Now I have a ton of great resources that also incorporate technology, which is something that I feel is so important to my students. I was blown away by both the ease of the lessons as well as the creativity they require. My students will not only learn about religions like Islam and Catholocism, they will learn 21st century skills at the same time. As an educator I couldn't ask for more!