Global Goals and Social Entrepreneurship

Resources Used

Bornstein, David, and Susan Davis. Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2010. Print.

Martin, Roger L., and Sally R. Osberg. Getting Beyond Better How Social Entrepreneurship Works. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review, 2015. Print.

Reimers, Fernando, Vidur Chopra, Connie K. Chung, Julia Higdon, and E. B. O’Donnell. Empowering Global Citizens: A World Course. North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace Independent Platform, 2016. Print.

Wagner, Tony, and Robert A. Compton. Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World. New York, NY: Scribner, 2015. Print.

Provides information about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and their individual targets

http://www.globalgoals.org/

Provides information and resources for teachers related to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

http://worldslargestlesson.globalgoals.org/

Online story map that explains the Global Goals and provides some statistics for individual countries related to various goals

http://sdgs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=c921e7d2cfef4c8ab98b839e27eda74a

Provides a number of engaging videos related to quality of life around the world, based on statistics

https://www.gapminder.org/

Interactive website that allows students to explore quality of life around the world based on income, using photos as data

https://www.gapminder.org/dollar-street/matrix?thing=Families&countries=World®ions=World&zoom=4&row=1&lowIncome=26&highIncome=15000&lang=en

Provides guidelines for students to write letters to newspaper editors and  politicians, and delivering a laser talk (a format for issue-based public speaking)

http://acgc.ca/resources-publications/teacher-resources/development-in-a-box-grades-7-12/taking-action-on-global-issues/

Online quiz that helps students determine their global citizen type/style (e.g., hands-on versus start-up)

http://together.akfc.ca/exhibit/en/global-development/take-the-global-citizen-quiz

Provides a number of articles, videos related to the Global Goals and actions one can take for global citizenship

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/

  • Les chemins de l’école. Émissions, TV5, DVD 
    • Video includes three episodes of nine children around the world and their triumphs and challenges they face in order to get to school

http://tv5.ca/les-chemins-de-lecol

  • Before the Flood. National Geographic – Ratpac Documentary Films, 2016. 
    • 2016 documentary film about climate change

https://www.beforetheflood.com/about/

  • “StopGap.” The Rick Mercer Report. YouTube. Uploaded by MercerReport, November 16, 2016. Accessed January 2017.
    • A video to help students understand social entrepreneurship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7spyqjR_lg

  • Ngabo, Gilbert. “U of T Students turning coffee grounds into fuel for refugees” Metro Published on January 12, 2017. Accessed January 2017.
    • An article of an example of local social entrepreneurship in Toronto

http://www.metronews.ca/news/toronto/2017/01/12/students-turn-coffee-grounds-into-firewood.html.