By Amanda Connelly

The tool I have decided to talk about from the Global Educator’s Toolbox is, World’s Largest Lesson. In my Web Tools For Global Learning Class, we were given an assignment where we had to visit the website of World’s Largest Lesson, select “Lesson Plan,” and choose a lesson that we could implement in our future classrooms. I had never heard of this site before the assignment and I was amazed at how much it offered to educators. As a future educator myself, I know I will use the lesson plan’s from World’s Largest Lesson. Not only does it offer fun, hands-on activities, it also focuses on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which aim to make our world a better place to live. The website offers so many resources, such as books, comics, quizzes, games, projects, as well as videos that teachers can watch, as well as share with their students. Although I want to teach Pre-K, as I was looking through the website, I found something I really liked, which was called, Flip the Script! This is a lesson where students get to create their own lesson and teach it to others on World Children’s Day. Although the lesson is geared towards 8-14 year olds, I feel as though teachers who have younger and/or older students can make changes that would make the lesson suitable for their children.

As mentioned before, I really like how World’s Largest Lesson provides teachers with creative lesson plans that they can implement in their classrooms. The website also makes it so easy to find what you are looking for. However, it is so colorful and fun that you may get stuck on the site for hours just going through different tabs. When it comes to my future classroom, this website provides me with so many lessons that offer artsy, hands-on, approaches, which is wonderful for little kids. I also like that a few of the lessons for ages 4-8 focus on the theme of peace, kindness, and community, which I personally feel are very important. As mentioned above, the lesson plans are centered around the 17 SDG, which is great for me because I will be able to teach and touch on the goals for my students at an early age. As a result they may have more enthusiasm as they get older to continue pursuing the goals and work on changing the world for the better.