Educational Resources

"[World Savvy] helped me locate resources, develop curriculum, and create interesting student projects. They really care about student learning". Educator, San Francisco

Welcome to World Savvy’s Resource Community! Here you’ll find a comprehensive range of FREE global education resources accessible to educators across disciplines. We invite you to use this Resource Community to integrate global issues into teaching and learning, in your classroom, community or educational environment. We’ll help you build your capacity to bring the world into your classroom- every day- with updates and community building opportunities.

In this section, you will find:

World Savvy Monitor

Monitor cover

The Monitor is a free online current affairs service for educators, providing background information –a ‘primer’ on complex global issues–and a Classroom Companion which demonstrates how to bring that knowledge into the classroom.

Editions: 

Educators Resource Library

Search our online database of teaching resources –curricula, lessons and units, multimedia resources and books, publications and movies –for classroom use; find recommended and featured resources and links to ‘best in class’ associations and nonprofits working in global education.

Search the Resource Library

Global Educators Network

Join our free global educators network to receive monthly updates about the latest resources and opportunities for incorporating global issues into your classroom. Get resources on teaching current events in your classroom (with links to online curriculum and leveled readings), and news about events, workshops, travel, grants and more great professional development opportunities. Click here to subscribe to our monthly updates and recommended resources!

World Savvy Challenge

The World Savvy Challenge is an academic program for middle and high school students to build their knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviors for global competence. The program engages students in project-based learning and collaborative problem-solving around a global theme, and empowers them to take informed action to address 21st century challenges locally and globally.

View the 2012-12 World Savvy Challenge Participating Schools

Program Resources:

General Program Information

Resources for Students

Theme-related Resources

  • Possible Topics List - A list of possible topics and questions that can help students think about a topic related to the theme
  1. Expanded Possible Topic - Climate & Energy
  2. Expanded Possible Topic - Food
  3. Expanded Possible Topic - Society
  4. Expanded Possible Topic - Waste & Consumption
  5. Expanded Possible Topic - Water

Preliminary Competition Presentation Rubrics

These rubrics will be used to judge student presentations during preliminary competitions in Minneapolis-St.Paul, San Francisco, and Online during the month of March.

Action Roundtable

Knowledge-to-Action

Work Samples

The links below can provide you with some examples of strong student work from past years. If you would like to see additional examples, please contact us

Do It Yourself Kit

Many schools participating in the Challenge choose to conduct a run-off at their school to decide which teams will move on to compete in a regional challenge competition. The three documents below can help your school conduct a successful runoff.

Forms

Archives: World Savvy Challenge Winners

2011-2012: National World Savvy Challenge Winners Announcement

Archives: World Affairs Challenge

The following resources were developed by World Savvy for the World Affairs Challenge program (WAC). World Savvy coordinated the WAC from 2003-2010 in partnership with the Center for Teaching International Relations before developing the World Savvy Challenge in 2011.

Media & Arts Program

World Savvy’s Media and Arts Program (MAP) is an interdisciplinary art and media education program that empowers the next generation to think creatively and critically about the world’s greatest challenges, with the arts as a lens. Local communities become classrooms as educators and their students explore complex global themes and develop 21st century skills: literacy, critical thinking, expression, empathy, and leadership.

General Program Resources

Sustainable Communities Information

  • NY Local Lesson Plans and Field Trips
  • SF Local Lesson Plans and Field Trips

MAP Archives – Past Program Years