Favorite+TakingItGlobal+Links

=Academy School Staff's Favorite TakingItGlobal Links=

These pages were identified by staff during our TakingItGlobal Training on August 22, 2007.

Youth Media DNA
http://www.takingitglobal.org/resources/toolkits/view.html?ToolkitID=1101 I thought this was interesting because as teachers we assume that kids are going to read the newspaper to get current events. This resource will hopefully help us understand the changing ways people can get news. - Sara D'Addario

Understanding the Issues - Education
http://www.takingitglobal.org/understanding/education This portion of TIG would serve useful to show our students and teachers how education functions around the world. Maybe it will also show our students how lucky they are to have access to public education! - Alicia Szilagyi

Understanding the Issues - Poverty
http://www.takingitglobal.org/understanding/poverty This section will serve useful to our students in our Social Justice Unit! When one begins to look at the alarming statistics which relate to globalization and sustainable development the differing opinions become obvious. - Alicia Szilagyi & Ruth Alston-Davis

Understanding the Issues - Social Justice
http://www.takingitglobal.org/understanding/socialjustice This will serve useful to our students in our Social Justice Unit! It addresses Human Rights, hooks up with forums attached to the UN and hook ups to other issues regarding issues such as abuse of power, etc. - Alicia Szilagyi & Ruth Alston-Davis

World Environment Day
http://www.unep.org/wed/2007/english/About_WED_2007/index.asp World Environment Day, commemorated each year on 5 June, is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action. I believe that is also goes along with our community unit because this is important to me and I think we are all responsible for environment. Within our community and outside of that…… Also, there are action steps that students can participate in…. - Kelly Borgogelli

Understanding the Issues - Indigenous Peoples
http://www.takingitglobal.org/themes/indigenous/ I think this article explores culture and how throughout history have lost their rights to protect who they are. - Mike Phinney

World Urban Café
http://www.takingitglobal.org/themes/urban/inform.html  World Urban Café: Headings include URBAN SUSTAINABILITY, IMPROVING THE LIVES OF SLUM DWELLERS, ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY IN OUR CITIES, SAFETY & SECURITY IN OUR CITIES, HUMANITY & THE FUTURE OF OUR CITIES, and YOUTH-LED DEVELOPMENT & SUSTAINABILITY. These headings can be looked at on the city level, and scaled down to see how our school is a mini community. We can use these topics to see what we can do to better our city and school. - Jess Truell

Grant Opportunity
http://www.takingitglobal.org/resources/financial/view.html?FinID=268 This is a no deadline grant for urban areas, since students will have to write their own grants, they may feel more engaged if it is actually something they are applying for.. - Jess Truell

World Health Organization Fact Sheets
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/en/ This website provides information on multiple health issues with links to fact sheets. This could be used to help students choose a topic during the health unit. - Annette Miller

June 2004: Cities of Panorama
http://www.takingitglobal.org/express/panorama/index.html?IssueID=37 This section has a series of articles written about how pollution has affected local communities. This could be used during the community unit to describe our local community or how pollution affects our health during the health unit. I could also use it in an environmental unit in science. - Annette Miller

Understanding the Issues - HIV/AIDS
http://www.takingitglobal.org/themes/hivaids/ I would this sight noted for future reference. - Kim Jones

Understanding the Issues - Homeless
http://www.takingitglobal.org/understanding/poverty/homeless This sites explores homeless people in other countries and how there problems are similar to our problems. - Ruth Alston-Davis

Be Creative
http://www.takingitglobal.org/themes/urban/create.html I believe this site would be a really good resource for the students to use for the projects for the upcoming school year. Students will be able to find information concerning community and health-related issues, learn what others are doing all over the world, submitting blogs, placing project online, and getting students involved with online discussion. These tools can be used to acquire information concerning the project, get help from all over the world and getting others to participate in your project, example, taking your project global. - Sylvia Wallace

Peace Child
http://orgs.takingitglobal.org/121 Peace Child encourages children to take responsibility for the environment, human rights and peace in their communities and the world. They have several programs Be The Change( community based projects) Be the Challenge!(environment), Youth created books discussing global issues. This site can provide framework for the students to participate in several issues. - Jackie Holder

Understanding the Issues: Alcohol and Drugs.
http://www.takingitglobal.org/understanding/health/alcohol I believe that the following site could be utilized for a health project that focuses on alcohol and/or drug abuse. This particular “site” has a number of informative articles that discuss the consequences of drug/alcohol abuse on the individual. Some of the articles focus on the differences in gender-related health issues as a consequence of substance abuse. Such articles are meaningful when we consider the number of our students who are abusing alcohol and drugs and/or come from families that are plagued by this life style. Our students could research the information found in the article and share their findings with others (classmates, family, friends, etc…). Additionally, students could use the information in constructing a methodology to combat such abuse. - Offie Rashed

Understanding the Issues - Media
http://www.takingitglobal.org/themes/media/ Main information site for understanding media on Taking it Global. It has links to art about media, discussion boards about media, as well as links to creating your own media. Media can be used in a wide variety of project since any other topic can be housed within a specific media (article, e-zine, radio ad, etc.) - Harry O'Malley

Stress and Counseling
http://www.takingitglobal.org/understanding/health/stress This seemed to be nice site talking about stress and how it affects our lives. This may be nice to cover with students to allow them to understand how everyone's daily stresses really start to effect one's body. - Amy Lupejkis

Tobacco
http://www.takingitglobal.org/games/tobacco.html This was found under the TIG educational games website and was titled Tobacco Card Game. It covered what is in tobacco, financial costs, health costs, and industry targets of tobacco. It was a fun matching and question/answer portion of the game. - Amy Lupejkis

40 Developmental Assets
http://www.takingitglobal.org/images/resources/tool/docs/883.pdf 40 Developmental Assets identifies the building blocks of healthy development that will prove to help young people grow up healthy, caring and responsible. These 40 Developmental Assets are concrete, common sense, positive experiences and qualities essential to raising successful young people. These entail External Assets and Internal Assets identified as building blocks of healthy development that help young people grow up healthy, caring, and responsible. - Myra Burch

Millennium Development Goals
http://www.takingitglobal.org/themes/mdg/ This is a matching game that can be used to help students explore some of resources that available to them. Students could create a game similar to this one to show their understanding of their project. - Myra Burch

Games
http://www.takingitglobal.org/games Carolyn M. Robinson