student work
Global Scholars students enthusiastically explore their own city’s culture and environment, an essential step in understanding the perspectives of others. Working together, students investigate global issues and share their learning with international peers through project-based learning assignments. Each of the 5 units in the Global Scholars program year ends with a digital project, such as a video, infographic, or e-book, that students post to a secure e-classroom for their peers to consider. The examples below show the creativity students bring to tackling the world’s biggest challenges from their own unique perspectives.
Unit 1: Global Scholars Say hello
At the beginning of each program year, Global Scholars classes around the world create a video to introduce themselves, their schools, and their cities to their peers in the international e-classroom. They also share what it means to be Global Scholars, as in this wonderful example from Girona, Spain.
Unit 2: Exploring My City
In Unit 2, students investigate the year’s global topic close to home. For the World of Water curriculum, students created a water guide to their schools. Global Scholars in Buenos Aires made a digital book to document their observations and recommend ways to improve water usage, availability, and access.
Unit 3: envisioning citywide change
In Unit 3, Global Scholars consider how cities around the world have tackled a global challenge and explore what might work for their city. For the Feeding Our Cities curriculum, Global Scholars devised sustainable farming solutions. Students used either recycled materials or digital platforms such as Tinkercad to present their innovations. See examples from Athens, Beijing, Buffalo, Dubai, Fort Lauderdale, Madrid, Mumbai, Paris, and Warsaw.
Unit 4: community survey and infographic
Students conduct a community survey for Unit 4 of Global Scholars, practicing respectful communication while hearing diverse perspectives from their community on the year’s global topic. For Feeding Our Cities, Global Scholars in Mumbai asked about priorities around food security and proposed solutions.
Unit 5: Community Action Project
The culminating project for Global Scholars is a Community Action Project, where each class takes local action to address a global challenge. Students draw on lessons from the year, including collaborating, giving and receiving feedback, and contributing to positive change in their communities. In this video, students from Warsaw and Taipei share their CAP projects, as educators in Barcelona and Toronto describe why this project means so much to their classes.