Resources (books, movies, websites, worksheets,etc.)

Text based:

• Sharing the Planet Vocabulary list
• Speaker Series Notetaking Sheet
• Speaker-series-notetaking-sheet – differentiated
• Exhibition (B)log (Journal) – Guidelines for keeping a record of the process. Can be used for digital or hand-written ones; rubric provided
• Poster Design advice-Just what it says really.
  
• Project Choices– for students listing top three choices
  

Websites:

• Ikeepbookmarks folder for Sharing the Planet
• Free the Children.com – Children helping children. (Focus questions for website)
• Free the Children YouTube Channel – Accessible to teachers only but has loads of great videos to inspire and challenge.
• Free the Children on 60 Minutes – (let it stream first) 12 minutes
  
• How to take action videos – Step by step guides for planning events to take action on an issue
• Background summary on some issues from Free the Children’s “Me to We” 
• WWF China outlines environmental projects being undertaken in China.
• Beijing Human and Animal Environmental Education Centre  (BHAEEC) is concerned with animal welfare and protection
• Animals Asia is a Hong Kong based organisation involved in animal welfare, especially farmed moon bears, dogs as pets rather than food and improving conditions for animals in zoos.
• Jane Goodall Institute, China. Jane will be visiting WAB in November 2012.
• Garden by the Bay – Singapore
  

 Audio/Visual:

• Jia Shan Jing Xi Partnership-A short video on the JJP (11 minutes)
• Book a Book-Short Powerpoint from WAB student’s project for migrant children.
• If Everyone Cared – A short video showing how one person can make a difference. Use how you see fit (5 minutes)
• A Fistful Of Dollars The Story of a Kiva org Loan (4 minutes) also in learning experiences
• Kiva-Animated video about how Kiva works. (10 minutes) also in learning experiences
• Achieving the UN’s Millennium Goals – video with many facts about issues of today. Some words difficult for G5 but the point is taken.
• Earth Hour Video 2013
  
• Changing the World in 5 Minutes  This is a short video about some Australian kids who took 5 minutes action every day.
• We Are What We Do  Another quick little video about taking action
• Severn Suzuki This is a really old video of Severn Suzuki delivering a speech to world leaders. (She is David Suzuki’s daughter)

 

Websites and articles related to exhibition issues:

100 Million Sharks Killed Every Year (National Geographic, Mar 2013) Reporting new studies about how many sharks we are killing annually.  Mentions shark finning.