The One World Curriculum is the only curriculum designed for middle and high school teachers that is built around middle and high school student writing. Every year, the One World Curriculum publishes twelve (one per month) new One World Units. Every One World Unit starts with a student-authored One World Reflection, which is a youth-written primary sources about personal experiences with culture, local, and global issues. Our Curriculum Team aligns the One World Reflections with a series of project-based Learning Activities and comprehension-based assessments, called Unit Resources.
Every One World Unit:
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Offers Global Action Extension Activities
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Is aligned to Common Core State Standards
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Guides students to improve and expand their writing
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Includes peer-to-peer activities
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Teaches 21st Century Skills
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Promotes interdisciplinary collaboration amongst teachers
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Celebrates student ideas, perspectives, and solutions
One World Reflections
Reflections are student authored primary sources written about experiences with culture, local, and global issues. Reflections are written by middle and high school students and are selected from entries to our annual Culture & Global Issues Reflection Writing Program.
Learning Activities
Each unit includes project-based Learning Activities - lesson plans built around key phrases quoted from a One World Reflection. These “Reflection prompts” express the insights, perspectives, and observations made by the young person who wrote the Reflection. Learning Activities allow for deeper exploration of the topics touched on in the Reflection. Activities are engaging and interdisciplinary.
Unit Resources
Each unit includes 4-5 standard Unit Resources, each of which is grounded in the student-written Reflection. These resources are designed to provide teachers with assessments to measure learning and comprehension.