Resources

This TEDTalk gives you insight into what it means to be a Global Citizen, plus it will give you direct actions you can take to support people across the world.

This TEDTalk will give you insight into why it is important to hear multiple perspectives. Throughout this unit we are hearing single stories but there are so many others.

This TEDTalk will show you the amazing difference one person with a dream can make. Shabana Basij Rasikh started SOLA, School of Leadership Afghanistan, the first boarding school for girls in Afghanistan.

This graphic shows us the difference between Equity and Equality. Equality is everyone gets the same thing, equity is people get what they need.

Sokha

Here is a little clip of Sokha and her writer Loung. If you want to do more for kids living in the dumps of Cambodia, here is a link to the website A New Day Cambodia a non profit organization started by Bill Smith, a photographer for the Chicago Bulls.

Wadley:

Here is a clip of Wadley getting ready to watch Girls Rising.

This father knows the importance of educating girls even though it almost cost him his daughter.

This TEDTalk provides insight into why public education is so critical for everyone, especially people who are constructing buildings etc. This talk outlines the importance of engineering decisions people can learn from Haiti's devastating earthquake.