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FlipGrid:
A free global community that enables thousands of teachers to inspire the next generation of global citizens by participating in live learning experiences and connections. Classrooms can take free virtual field trips, hear from experts, and connect with other classrooms around the world. !
Mystery Skype:
Find a partner classroom by using #MysterySkype on Twitter. Use these resources to organize and introduce this activity.
Empatico:
Connect with another classroom to promote a greater understanding of similarities and differences and help students practice skills like communication, perspective taking, cooperation, and critical thinking. Geared toward classrooms with students ages 6-11.
Classroom Bridges:
Find a partner classroom and connect using the provided resources. By adding your classroom to this community, you can open opportunities for learning, sharing, and understanding.
A free global community that enables thousands of teachers to inspire the next generation of global citizens by participating in live learning experiences and connections. Classrooms can take free virtual field trips, hear from experts, and connect with other classrooms around the world. !
Mystery Skype:
Find a partner classroom by using #MysterySkype on Twitter. Use these resources to organize and introduce this activity.
Empatico:
Connect with another classroom to promote a greater understanding of similarities and differences and help students practice skills like communication, perspective taking, cooperation, and critical thinking. Geared toward classrooms with students ages 6-11.
Classroom Bridges:
Find a partner classroom and connect using the provided resources. By adding your classroom to this community, you can open opportunities for learning, sharing, and understanding.
Engage with non-American sources as students explore the world around them
- World Press Photo
- Pictures of the Year International
- NewspapersGlobal
- The Big Project
- Newseum’s global front pages and front pages with map
- Newsela
- List and description of news outlets for students
- FANschool
- Ten Great Activities: Teaching with the Newspaper
- Euronews
- Google News (scroll down and click on “Language and Region” for international news outlets)
- American Press Institute (evaluating media)
- New York Times Globetrotting book list
- US History in a Global Context
- Dragonfly.eco
- Burning Worlds (Chicago Review of Books)
- BY Kids
- Girl Rising
- Global Cartoons
- Math as a Global Text - Asia Society
- 100 Most Influential Photos
- A Global Origin Story?
- World Digital Library
- National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) (for K-12)
- Storybird
- 100 Famous Paintings
- Global graphic novels (Primary Source recommendations)
- Global books (Primary Source recommendations)
- Global Literature: Award-winning Resources
- Global “search and find” books (Kid World Citizen and New York Times)
- Ten Great Activities: Teaching with the Newspaper
- Seedfolks
- I Will Always Write Back
- The Constitute Project (the world’s constitutions)
- A People’s Curriculum for the Earth
- American Reading Company
- End Hunger UK Poetry Challenge
- To Live by Yu Hua (Famous Chinese novel. Partners well with SDG’s. Appropriate for 8th-12th grades)
- Passport
- Words Without Borders
- Poetry Translation Centre
- Six-word memoirs
- SDG book club and hashtag
- 10 Ways to Use Google Maps in the Classroom
- 360cities
- Academic WorldQuest
- Community Connections with Geography and the Newspaper, detailed map lesson plans
- Dream360, virtual reality
- Fun Geography Lessons to Enhance Your Curriculum
- Gapminder World
- Google Maps
- Google Earth
- Google Earth lesson plans
- Google Lit Trips: Reading the World (using Google Earth)
- Google My Maps, Google My Maps (sample)
- Geography with Legos
- Geoguessr
- How These Teachers Used Kahoot! To Host a Geography Bee
- Out of Eden Learn - based on National Geographic Fellow, Paul Salopek’s walk to follow the path of human migration
- National Geographic MapMaker Interactive
- Real World Math (using Google Earth)
- Worldmapper - cartograms showing maps based on data around global issues
- World Population History
- Top 10 Museums and Galleries
- Spotify’s Musical Map of the World
- Global Arts and Crafts
- UNESCO World Heritage Center
- Authentic Activities for World Language Classroom
- Google Arts and Culture
- Best Sites For Learning About The World’s Different Cultures
- Culture Crossing Guide
- Global Table Adventure
- Archaeological Survey of India
- Cultures of the Andes
- Smithsonian Folkways
- All Around This World
- World Culture Activities
- Colors around the world
- YouTube - search for videos about world languages, festivals, music, families, customs, art, architecture, etc.
- Famous landmarks resources here and here
- METkids
- ArtsEdge Global Cultures from the Kennedy Center
- Kid World Citizen - Brain Break with Global Music
- The Material World
- Teaching Tolerance
- Our World in Data
- Population Education
- World Population History
- Journey North connections and Journey North Data
- World Fact Book (CIA)
- Hans Rosling: The Best Stats You’ve Ever Seen and his other TED Talks about global data
- Real World Math
- Global Math Stories
- Global Math Task Twitter Challenge
- SDG Math unit by Oxfam
- Math-terpieces: The Art of Problem Solving
- Kiva and Kiva U and Kiva Global Impact Game and Kiva curriculum
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- UNICEF (click on Statistics by Topic and Country)
- The GLOBE Program (science)
- National Geographic Innovation Challenges
- Global Trading Game
- World Water Day
- Changing the Narrative and Thinking Outside the Grid
- The World’s Largest Lesson
- 15-Year Old Kelvin Doe Wows MIT
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba (Malawi)
- iEarn
- Level Up Village
- Science is Global: Deeper Learning and Global Competence in the Science Classroom
- ProjectWet
- Smithsonian Science for the Global Goals
- Adventure Scientists
- The Permaculture Student
- Smithsonian Science for the Classroom
- Rethinking Mathematics
- ESRI GeoInquiries
- National Center for Science Education
- Visual Capitalist
Information about the SDGs
Videos to Introduce the SDGs
Articles and Videos about Teaching the SDGs
Lessons and Resources for Teaching the SDGs
Individual Lesson Plans
Texts
Stay up-to-date on teaching the SDGs!
Social Media: @GlobalGoalsUN, @TeachSDGs
Hashtags: #GlobalGoals, #TeachSDGs, #GoalsProject
Global Goals Week
- About the Sustainable Development Goals, United Nations
- Sustainable Development Goals, SDG Knowledge Platform
- Sustainable Development Goals, United Nations Development Programme
- The 17 Goals, The Global Goals for Sustainable Development
- U.S. National Statistics for the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
Videos to Introduce the SDGs
- ‘We the People’ for The Global Goals (3 minutes)
- Global Voices - What’s so different about the Global Goals? (3.5 minutes)
- No Point Going Half Way (2.5 minutes)
- The World’s Largest Lesson (3 minutes)
- World’s Largest Lesson - Just a Kid (2 minutes)
- The Road to the SDGs: A discussion with students (6.5 minutes)
- The Global Goals for Sustainable Development: Resources, for videos click on “Films & Pictures”
- GlobalGoalsUN channel on Vimeo
- What are the universal human rights? TEDEd video (5 minutes)
Articles and Videos about Teaching the SDGs
- Earth Owner’s Manual: 17 Things Young Adults Should be Studying, Getting Smart
- How to Teach the U.N. Development Goals, and Why, British Council
- Teaching Grade School Students How to Make Global Impact, Edutopia (3.5 minutes)
- Helping Students Develop Empathy instead of Sympathy, Teaching Tolerance
- 4 Reasons to Teach the Sustainable Development Goals, Participate Learning
- Social Good in the Classroom: What Impact Will You Make? Participate Learning
- 7 Ways the SDGs are Important in a Classroom, Participate Learning
Lessons and Resources for Teaching the SDGs
- World’s Largest Lesson, lesson plans and materials for teaching the SDGs (from the UN, UNICEF, and UNESCO)
- Projects Organized by UN Sustainable Development Goal, Asia Society’s Center for Global Education
- Sustainable Development Goals - Resources for educators, UNESCO
- SDG Resources for Educators - Partnerships for the Goals, UNESCO
- Education for Sustainable Development Goals: Learning Objectives, suggested topics and learning approaches, UNESCO
- UNICEF and the Sustainable Development Goals - resources include issue briefs on specific SDGs, The World We Want (child-friendly overview of the SDGs), Mapping the SDGs and the Rights of the Child, and a collection of videos
- Teach SDG: Connect to the SDGs through resources - assets, projects, events, and teacher connections
- The Sustainable Development goals: A guide for teachers from Oxfam Education - includes Learn-Think-Act framework, case study examples, ideas for integrating in specific subject areas, and suggested methodologies for teaching the SDGs
- Resources guides for various SDG topics, Oxfam Education
- Sustainable Foundations: A Guide for Teaching the Sustainable Development Goals, lessons with big questions, resources, and case studies, Manitoba Council for International Cooperation
- Kiva U and Kiva Global Impact Game and Kiva curriculum
- Resources to Support the SDGs, Global Learning Programme
- Participate’s community of SDG resources and educators
- West-Windsor Plains Middle School Global Challenge, project ideas, resources, and rubrics
- Gaia Education for Sustainable Development
- Go Goals! Board game for children
- Infographics from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
- Equipping Young Leaders to Take on the 32 Most Important Issues of Our Time, Getting Smart
- Projects Organized by UN Sustainable Development Goal, Asia Society’s Center for Global Education
Individual Lesson Plans
- Guide for Discussions on the SDGs, free download from Parlay - if you use the Parlay platform, they also have these as roundtables
- Why is it important to educate girls? PBS NewsHour Extra
- Climate change as a scientific theory, PBS NewsHour Extra
- World Food Day, Teaching the Power of School Meals, PBS NewsHour Extra
- What the United Nations means today, PBS NewsHour Extra
Texts
- UN Sustainable Development Goals book series for grades 4-8+
- SDG Reading List, Participate Learning
- Comics Uniting Nations, comics and videos that make the SDGs accessible to the citizens of the world - (they have previously hosted comic contests for students, too!)
- City Green by DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan, picture book about environment and community
- Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
- One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia picture book by Miranda Paul - One Plastic Bag teaching resources
- Kids United - “On Ecrit Sur Les Murs,” music video
- #WhatIReallyWant music video - what I really, really want is gender equality
- World Poetry Day: Poetry for Social Change, Huffington Post
Stay up-to-date on teaching the SDGs!
Social Media: @GlobalGoalsUN, @TeachSDGs
Hashtags: #GlobalGoals, #TeachSDGs, #GoalsProject
Global Goals Week
Small Action Steps to Address the SDGs
Your students can connect classroom learning & personal passions to existing global communities of action-oriented global citizens.
Action Projects You and Your Students Can Join
Global Collaboration Projects that Address the SDGs
Your students can create and implement their own Take Action program to address local or global issue.
Resources for You & Your Students to Design Your Own Action Project
Inspiring Examples of Taking Action
Inspiring Examples of Taking Action - Young People
Inspiring Examples of Taking Action - Art Projects
- 7 Ways You Can Change the World, Huffington Post
- The Lazy Person’s Guide to Saving the World, United Nations
- 170 Daily Actions to Transform Our World, The Perception Change Project, UN Geneva
- Mother Earth Project - scroll down for a list of sustainability actions
- UNICEF Kid Power Ups - kids get active and make an impact
Your students can connect classroom learning & personal passions to existing global communities of action-oriented global citizens.
Action Projects You and Your Students Can Join
- SDG Action Campaign, United Nations - see “Lead a Campaign in Your Community” for actions you can take
- Students Rebuild
- National Geographic Innovation Challenges
- Smithsonian Science for the Global Goals, community research guides focus on sustainable actions that are student-defined and implemented
- Voices of Youth - Youth Advocacy Guide
- Global Goals Jam, an opportunity for students to “Design 2030” - happens in Sept., make plans for next year now!
- The World Children’s Program, for the rights of the child
- Earth Charter Around the World, Earth Charter Initiative
- Global Citizen, initiatives that address multiple issues
- World Water Day, UN - March 22
- Global Youth Service Day, Youth Service America - Spring
- Earth Day Groceries Project - April 22
- Zero Hour, climate change movement founded by 16 year old
- Internet Users are Getting Their Hands Dirty with the #Trashtag Challenge
Global Collaboration Projects that Address the SDGs
- GoalsProject
- Global Nomads Group’s Student to World
- Global Goals on The Wonderment, a project of Kidnected World - local actions, can be done in collaboration with global partners
- iEARN (International Education and Research Network) projects
- The Climate Action Project, four week project in October
- Voices for the Global Goals | How would you make the goals famous? (Flipgrid)
Your students can create and implement their own Take Action program to address local or global issue.
Resources for You & Your Students to Design Your Own Action Project
- Youth Guide to the Global Goals, project ideas for each goal from Youth Service America
- SDG Project Planning Toolkit, Participate Learning
- Do Something - list of taking action ideas from Teaching Tolerance
- Kids Go Global, issue resources, media resources and a platform for sharing work
- Girl Scouts: Global Action 2020, activity guide for daisies, brownies, and juniors
- TakingITGlobal, online community for young people (and educators) with tools and resources for taking action
- Inspire Citizens: 17 Skills for 17 Goals - tools and ideas for implementing community-based learning and student-centered solutions
- Design for Change, four-step framework to achieve the I Can mindset
- Make It Happen: Social Action Toolkit, Association of Citizenship Teaching in partnership with the National Citizen Service Trust
- Our World in Data, research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems
- Encouraging Students to Take Action, Teaching Channel video (9.5 minutes)
- Social Entrepreneurship course
Inspiring Examples of Taking Action
- A Small Act documentary trailer, story of Hilde Back Education Fund Group (video, 3.5 minutes)
- OpenIDEO, social innovation powered by design thinking
- Ashoka Fellows - innovators for the public
- MacArthur Fellows - creative people from all disciplines making the world a better place
- A Guerilla Gardener in South Central LA | Ron Finley (video, 11 minutes)
- Students Take Action in the Community, Edutopia article about NYC service initiative
- I Love Teaching so Much . . . I Quit | Tawana Weicker | TEDxTryon (17 minutes)
- What It Takes to Move the World: 5 Traits of Moral Leaders, Acumen Ideas
- The ‘3.5% rule’: How a small minority can change the world, BBC FutureNow article
- Changing the Narrative, Acumen Ideas
- Thinking Outside the Girls, Acumen Ideas
Inspiring Examples of Taking Action - Young People
- These 9 Badass Youth Activists are Changing the World, Global Citizen
- 15-year-old Kelvin Doe Wows M.I.T. video from THNKR (10 minutes)
- Greta Thunberg’s TED Talk (9 minutes) and her Twitter handle.
- Rang-tan: the story of dirty palm oil and children’s responses, Greenpeace International
Inspiring Examples of Taking Action - Art Projects
- How art creates social change in 5 TED Talks
- 15 public art projects that boldly advocate for social justice
- My Wish: Use art to turn the world inside out, TED Talk by street artist JR (24 minutes) - One year of turning the world inside out (6 minutes)