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**What is a Global Citizen?**
Content: Social Studies, Language Arts, Science Grade: 4 - 12

**Objective**

 * Students will be able to describe and give specific examples of what it means to be a global citizen.
 * Students will work in groups to create a storyboard as a plan for a video.
 * Students will work in groups to shoot a video and share with their classmates.

**Standards**
NETS 1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity 2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments 3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning 4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility

**Process**
Prior to lesson, students will have read several novels from different countries across the globe, discussed the theme of Cooperation and Competition, as well as completed a unit on Pollution in Science.

1. Teacher will lead a discussion/brainstorming session with students about what "global" means and "citizenship" means. Teacher will record class comments using [|Mindmeister] 2. Teacher will show 2-3 videos of what it means to be a global citizen from other people across the world. media type="custom" key="6402965" width="20" height="36" media type="custom" key="6403017" width="20" height="36" media type="custom" key="6403045" width="20" height="36" 3. The next day, during workshop, students will create a podcast using Garage Band and then upload them in [| Podbean] 4. The next day, during workshop, student can listen to each other's podcasts and add information to the Mindmeister as their ideas of what it means to be a global citizen.

**Assessment**
Students will type two sentences summarizing what it means to be a global citizen into a blank word document. We will put the word document into [|Wordle] to show what our main idea about global citizenship is.