SDG #14 Life Below Water: Protecting What we Love
The days following World Water Day, we continued to explore water in all its ways, by exploring the United Nations SDG's. We even got to meet with self-proclaimed mermaid--scuba diver, author, and global conservationist, Jennifer Nolan. Ms. Nolan has done some amazing...
Understanding Waste in Alaska- Earth Day Education
In honor of Earth Day 2018, we invited in a special guest expert from the community, Gary Smith from Total Reclaim Alaska, to give us the scoop on most things waste here in Alaska. They are a very environmentally driven organization and they are committed to making...
Books arrive in Agadir, Morocco
Last Spring students at Tudor Elementary raised 1,500 books to donate to a few chosen organizations. One of them was to Rural Alaska Reads program, which is a local student designed organization determined to get more books in the hands of students who live in rural...
Spotlight Global Citizens: Manthan International Festival
As Global Educators and Global Learners, it’s important that we find opportunities to embrace global understanding, citizenship, and learning. Recently I came across a young man who is passionate and empowered by the chance to have young people across the world use...
Spring at Tudor Elementary!
Hello All~ The end of the year is coming, but we still have some great ways to get involved. This week we kicked off our Tudor Spring Book & Drive where we are collecting books to give to designated organizations, chosen by students. This year, students decided to...
World Water Monitoring Challenge- WIN
Water is such a crucial element to our way of life and everything we do. No matter where we are on earth, water has a major impact and role. It was my desire to have our students think about their local water and connect that with water on a global level. I am so...
Global Project: Bulldog Adventure
At the beginning of the year we signed up to join a fun project with Lisa Davis from New York, called Bulldog Adventure, where their mascot, the "Bulldog" left Westmoreland, New York to travel the world, stopping at several places to visit and teach about previous...
Happy World Water Day!
Today, March 22, 2018 was a great opportunity, in honor of World Water Day, to connect with a variety of individuals who helped us understand the importance of water in our life, the necessity of water conservation, what is being done to conserve water, and why it all...
Becoming Writers through Global Education
This March (2018), we had the privilege to connect with children's book author and inspiration, Lisa Thompson, http://www.lisathompsonauthor.com/. We not only learned her story, process, and inspirations behind her books, but also got a unique opportunity to learn...
Exploring Water Conservation and Global Connectedness
Last year when students were learning about Jacques Cousteau and the legacy he passed onto his family (and the great work they are doing also) we came across the reality that the ocean needs our help. From then on, we have learned as much as we can about oceans,...
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