One Globe Kids - Friends Around the World
Beautiful photos and stories build cultural knowledge, self-awareness
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One Globe Kids - Friends Around the World
Pros: Upbeat, relatable stories of everyday lives help kids learn about other cultures.
Cons: Adding extension ideas for each country could add support.
Bottom Line: Beautiful photos and high-quality audio add to this amazing cultural and social learning experience.
If your class is studying a specific region, continent, or country found on One Globe Kids - Friends Around the World, this app can be an ideal way to bring the general topics of geography and world culture down to a personal level. One Globe Kids - Friends Around the World can also fit well into social and emotional learning lessons, as teachers can use the diverse stories of kids' daily life experiences to discuss empathy, self-awareness, challenges, and feelings from kids around the world. Consider adding some extension activities (recipes from each country, further language study, researching or creating your own day-in-the-life digital storybook) to enhance this already tremendously rich learning experience.
It's important to note that teachers who want all of the One Globe Kids content, and some useful implementation resources, should check out One Globe Kids - All Friends app, which is available for a $9.99 purchase.
One Globe Kids - Friends Around the World is an app as well as website that centers on "a day in the life" stories told by individual kids from different countries. One story is free to try; all others require a $1.99 in-app purchase. The One Globe Kids - All Friends app can be purchased separately for $9.99 and includes all current and future stories, plus educator toolkits. From Aji in Indonesia to Luna in New York City and almost a dozen other kids, One Globe Kids introduces students to kids in other cultures through these photo- and audio-based stories. Kids can also hear a bit of each storyteller's language (and record themselves saying a few words, such as counting to 10), record themselves answering related questions ("How do you get to school?"), and learn general geographic and cultural facts about each country. Each story offers audio in four languages.
Kids can learn cultural understanding and global awareness by experiencing the stories and related activities on One Globe Kids - Friends Around the World. As kids listen to the everyday stories told by other kids in countries around the world, they can gain empathy for other kids' challenges and can take delight in their common joys. After they listen to the stories and begin to record their own answers to related questions, kids can grow in self-awareness and take a fresh perspective on their own daily lives as they discover similarities and differences in the lives of kids in the recorded stories. Beautiful photos and high-quality audio add to this cultural and social learning experience.
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Great resource!! Highly recommended
There are so many wonderful things about One Globe Kids. There are so many different ways to use this resource. The slides can be read in small groups, individually or whole class. There are extension activities and ideas for differentiation. These stories can be used for one lesson, or multiple lessons. Overall, One Globe Kids promotes global awareness and understanding. Students are able to relate and make connections to kids all around the world. I was amazed at my students' engagement and level of understanding. I highly recommend this resource.
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