Students read three picture books about community and sharing, making predictions, reflecting during reading, and connecting to SDG 2 and global competencies. They then create a foldable with summaries and a cover showing a shared theme like empathy or helping others. Continue Reading Thank You Umo / Last Stop on Market Street / Panya’s Pancakes – SDG 2: Zero Hunger
These lessons guide students in connecting literature, global goals, and personal skills. First, students read Ada’s Violin and identify which Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) the story best represents through discussion and voting. Next, they break down Global Competency Indicators into student-friendly language, building understanding through definitions and examples. Finally, students revisit the story to identify and explain how characters demonstrate specific global competencies, helping them connect abstract ideas to real actions in the text. Continue Reading Ada’s Violin / SDGs and The Global Competency Indicators
Students will learn about the SDGs by watching videos and listening to a read aloud. In small groups, they will choose an SDG and brainstorm small ways that they can work towards helping that goal. Continue Reading What are the SDGs and How Can We Help?
Students create a visual self-introduction to share with a partner in Taiwan. Over four days, they take profile photos, paint watercolor backgrounds, write and translate “Who am I?” sentences, and assemble all pieces into a finished artwork. The final product combines images, writing, and Chinese translations and is mailed to Taiwan to help students begin a cross-cultural friendship. Continue Reading Artful Introduction
Small groups of students will complete a shared “This Is Our School” Google Slides project by adding photos and writing sentences about their school community, using either student-taken or teacher-provided images. After finishing the slideshow, Taiwan and U.S. students will compare and contrast their schools using a top hat graphic organizer. Continue Reading This is Our School (Community Exchange)
This is NOT a lesson to be done with students. It is a set of instructions about how to make a memory/concentration game starring your students. It is designed to be sent to your partner teacher’s classroom, so their students can become more familiar with their buddys’ faces Continue Reading Instructions for making the Friendly Faces Memory Game
Students take turns bringing a classroom teddy bear home, documenting its adventures with photos and writing short descriptions from the bear’s point of view. These stories are shared in a collaborative slideshow and translated to connect with partner students in Taiwan. The bear is later sent to Taiwan, where students there add their own experiences, helping both classes learn about daily life, culture, and communication across countries. Continue Reading Traveling Bear
Students explore the concept of culture through a read-aloud of This Is How We Do It, comparing their daily lives with children from around the world. They then work in pairs to generate thoughtful questions for Taiwanese students and identify important details about their own lives. Using these ideas, students write two short paragraphs—one with questions for their international buddy and one describing themselves in depth. Students translate their writing into Mandarin using Google Translate and share their work on Padlet to begin a cross-cultural exchange with partner students in Taiwan. Continue Reading This is How We Do It!
Students will color and decorate the front of a paper dove. They will introduce themselves and write a wish for their Taiwan buddy on the back of the dove. Continue Reading Doves for Peace
Students learn about Taiwan and are paired with a Taiwanese buddy. They create a piece of artwork that includes a painted background, a self-portrait, and a drawing showing a favorite family activity, with text translated into Mandarin. The final piece is assembled as a personalized message to their partner student. Continue Reading Introducing Yourself to Your Taiwanese Buddy