Before the Internet, the only ways to gain a global perspective was to get news from friends or family in other countries or get ahold of old media such as newspapers from different countries.
Today, it is very easy to get a global perspective on historical or news events by adapting your Google Search. You can search the same topic but filter so you only get results from a certain country.
You can do this by typing google.us in the omnibox to get the results only from the United States. To get results only from Germany, you can type in google.de and then do your search from there. For those of us that are not bilingual, if you use the Chrome browser you can use the Google Translate tool which is directly activated in the browser.
Every country has their own domain extension. For example, sites from Germany have the "de" extension. Sites from Spain have the "es" extension. (List of country domain extension)
You can also do this within the advanced search option in Google. You will need to go up to the gear in the top right hand corner of your search results. Then, click on Advanced search.
Make sure you have the topic in which you are searching in the Find pages with....area. Try Christopher Columbus as an example. From there, you can complete the global results in two different ways. You can either click on the region area and choose the country from which you want to display your results or you can type in the domain extension in the site or domain box. Then, click Advanced Search in the bottom right hand corner.
Your results will be different based on your location, as you can see below.
Give it a try with a topic you are teaching in class and then teach your students how to search with a global mindset.
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