Topic Name Description
Book Teaching Notes: Humboldt 250
File Handbook Humboldt 250
1. What makes a global citizen? Lightbox Gallery What do these things have in common?

Take a look at these photos. They all have one thing in common – can you find out what it is? Post your guesses or questions as comments. 

Page Global citizen definitions

Padlet • various sources • 2min read

URL Global citizen

Video Global Citizen • 1min45

URL What does it mean to be a citizen of the world?

Video • TED • 16min56

URL What Global Citizenship Is Not

Blog  April Rinne/medium.com • 7min read

2. Alexander von who...? URL Who is Alexander von Humboldt?

Video • George Mehler / TED Ed • 4min21

URL The Invention of Nature (short)

Video • Andrea Wulf / 5x15 stories • 15min03

URL The Invention of Nature (long)

Video • Andrea Wulf / Esri events • 46min08

3. Humboldt's many hats URL Biography of Alexander von Humboldt

Website • ThoughCo. • 4min read

Page Alexander von Humboldt and his time

Book excerpt • Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature • 1min read

File Map of Humboldt's South America Expedition

Map • Wikipedia • 1min read

Folder Excerpts from A. Wulf, 'The Invention of Nature'

Book excerpts • Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature • c. 5min read per excerpt

URL The Humboldt Code

Text • Rüdiger Schaper / Magazine Humboldt Kosmos, Alexander-von-Humboldt Stiftung • 10min read

File The Enlightenment

Teaching resources • Annenberg Learner, America's History in the Making • 27 pp. 

4. A true global citizen? URL If Humboldt were on Twitter today

Text & images • Magazine Humboldt Kosmos / Alexander von Humboldt Foundation • 5min read

URL For me, Humboldt today means...

Text and video • humboldt-heute.de / Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung

Book HUMBOLDT KOSMOS

Research - Diplomacy - Internationality

© Alexander-von-Humboldt Stiftung

General resources Book Project Journal

Collection of our ideas and results as a basis for our action plan.

5. Tips, resources, and tools File TIP: Conducting research
File TIP: Doing project work
File TIP: Giving presentations
File TIP: Linking ideas and sentences (vocabulary)
File TIP: Solving a mediation task
File TIP: Writing an article
File TIP: Analyzing cartoons
URL TIP: Materialien zum selbständigen, standardorientierten Lernen - interaktive Version

A PDF with forms you can click on and save.