We are a free multimedia platform for educators and students. Through our immersive storytelling and curricula, we explore the deeper issues facing humanity. Use our award-winning films, photo essays, and essays to learn about social, cultural, and environmental issues from people and communities worldwide. For grades 3-12, our stories and lessons encourage students to broaden their perspectives and worldviews while fostering inquiry, empathy, resilience, and a sacred relationship to our planet. We aim to bring universal values into the lives of educators and students.
Experience Our Storytelling
Watch this short video to learn more about the stories we tell.
New Student Contest: The Environment Is in You
In what ways is climate change impacting the place where you live?
In this contest, open until May 5, 2022, students will take a photograph or create an original illustration that documents the fragility, hope, and future of our planet’s ecosystem due to climate change. Inspired by four environmental writers—Linda Hogan, Robert Hass, Wendell Berry, and Dara McAnulty—students will explore changes to local systems, how the environment shapes our identity, and how our actions and awareness today can impact the future.
This sonic journey written and narrated by David G. Haskell brings us to the beginning of sound and song on planet Earth.
This essay explores the power of our imagination and how stories can act as thresholds to our childhood selves.
This series is the multigenerational story of a Coast Miwok family’s eviction from their ancestral home and one woman’s effort to bring the living history of her family back to the land.
This feature shares the stories of four Indigenous communities in California who are working to revitalize their languages and cultures in order to pass them on to the next generation.
Celebrating National Poetry Month
Learn more about the cultural history and health of rivers around the world.
A portrait of Berlin based clown Reinhard "Filou" Horstkotte explores poetics of performance, laughter and spontaneity.
Celebrating Student Artwork: New Student Gallery
Encourage thoughtful and meaningful conversations in the classroom with our student gallery. Use the gallery as a tool to foster curiosity, observation skills, and perspective-taking.
The gallery encourages students to learn from each other’s perspectives. How are students witnessing and engaging with the world in new ways since the start of Covid-19? Search by theme, previous Global Oneness Project contests, or from locations around the world. The gallery is accompanied by an image analysis activity, including a Visible Thinking Routine from Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Who Is Using Our Materials
Our materials provide opportunities for an interdisciplinary approach to learning across disciplines from social sciences and humanities to environmental sciences. Education stakeholders, including K-12 educators, university professors, librarians, tech/media specialists, parents, and students are using our materials in multiple learning environments.
