Resources for Teachers Presented by Dr. Keli Garas-York Funding Opportunities http://www.grants4teachers.com Your complete online resource for information related to K-12 grants. http://www.neafoundation.org Click on educators and scroll down to Grants to Educators http://www.adoptaclassroom.org/index.aspx Adopt-A-Classroom invites the community into the classroom in support of teachers and their students. By adopting a classroom, donors form partnerships with specific classrooms providing financial and moral support. The result is a meaningful contribution to education in which donors experience the impact of their efforts and celebrate in a classroom's success. http://www.grantwrangler.com See Harold W. McGraw Jr. prize in Education (Globalization Awareness) http://www.dosomething.org Using the power of online to get teens to do good stuff offline http://nyhumanities.org/grants/ The Council awards Major Grants (up to $20,000) and Mini Grants (up to $2,500). Council grants are meant to provide financial support for public programs presented by not-for-profit organizations across New York State that bring humanities scholars and scholarship to a general public audience.Globalization Resources http://globalizationandeducation.ed.uiuc.edu/Teaching/index.html Useful resources that provide curriculum content, background information and novel ways of incorporating global perspective in teaching. http://www.choices.edu Choices teaching resources incorporate the latest scholarship to make connections between historical events and contemporary international issues. Choices teaching materials are used in a range of courses including U.S. history, world history, global studies, and government. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/lo/index.html The purpose of this site is to promote better understanding of globalization, world trade and economic development, including the forces, values, events, and ideas that have shaped the present global economic system. http://www.globaleducation.edna.edu.au/globaled/go Teacher resources supporting the integration of a global perspective across the curriculum http://www.globalenvision.org/index.php?fuseaction=home.main This website is dedicated to increasing awareness of two of the defining trends of our time — the spread of more open markets and the global fight against poverty. http://www.globalteacher.org.uk/index.htm Its purpose is to promote within education the knowledge, attitudes and skills that young people need in order to practice social and environmental responsibility in a multicultural society and an interdependent world. http://www.globaled.org/issues/ The American Forum for Global Education promotes the education of American youth for responsible citizenship in an increasingly interconnected and rapidly changing world http://www.theglobalist.com/Teaching/index.shtml?StoryId=4409 The online think tank dedicated to democratizing global economic