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Teaching Notes: Humboldt 250 | ||
Handbook Humboldt 250 | ||
1. What makes a global citizen? | 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. |
Global citizen definitions | Padlet • various sources • 2min read |
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Global citizen | Video • Global Citizen • 1min45 |
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What does it mean to be a citizen of the world? | Video • TED • 16min56 |
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What Global Citizenship Is Not | Blog • April Rinne/medium.com • 7min read |
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2. Alexander von who...? | Who is Alexander von Humboldt? | Video • George Mehler / TED Ed • 4min21 |
The Invention of Nature (short) | Video • Andrea Wulf / 5x15 stories • 15min03 |
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The Invention of Nature (long) | Video • Andrea Wulf / Esri events • 46min08 |
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3. Humboldt's many hats | Biography of Alexander von Humboldt | Website • ThoughCo. • 4min read |
Alexander von Humboldt and his time | Book excerpt • Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature • 1min read |
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Map of Humboldt's South America Expedition | Map • Wikipedia • 1min read |
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Excerpts from A. Wulf, 'The Invention of Nature' | Book excerpts • Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature • c. 5min read per excerpt |
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The Humboldt Code | Text • Rüdiger Schaper / Magazine Humboldt Kosmos, Alexander-von-Humboldt Stiftung • 10min read |
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The Enlightenment | Teaching resources • Annenberg Learner, America's History in the Making • 27 pp. |
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4. A true global citizen? | If Humboldt were on Twitter today | Text & images • Magazine Humboldt Kosmos / Alexander von Humboldt Foundation • 5min read |
For me, Humboldt today means... | Text and video • humboldt-heute.de / Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung |
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HUMBOLDT KOSMOS | Research - Diplomacy - Internationality © Alexander-von-Humboldt Stiftung |
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General resources | Project Journal | Collection of our ideas and results as a basis for our action plan. |
5. Tips, resources, and tools | TIP: Conducting research | |
TIP: Doing project work | ||
TIP: Giving presentations | ||
TIP: Linking ideas and sentences (vocabulary) | ||
TIP: Solving a mediation task | ||
TIP: Writing an article | ||
TIP: Analyzing cartoons | ||
TIP: Materialien zum selbständigen, standardorientierten Lernen - interaktive Version | A PDF with forms you can click on and save. |