Stories and lessons for growing minds

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.

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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.

A collection of student artwork

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.

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Marie Wilcox Wukchumni Woodlake, CA
Photo Essay
Last Speakers

This series features tintype photographs of the remaining speakers of endangered Indigenous languages in North America.

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man in forest recording sounds
Conversation Cards
Sanctuaries of Silence

These conversation cards provide ways for students to engage with the short film Sanctuaries of Silence.

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Empty desk in water by Abigail Getty
Collection
Teaching and Learning During Covid-19
How are students witnessing and engaging with the world from their own homes and communities during the Covid-19 pandemic?
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Photo Essay Protester holding up when will MLK's dream come true
We Will Breathe

These photos by Sheila Pree Bright share intimate moments of mourning and inspiration within the Black Lives Matter movement.

by Sheila Pree Bright
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Film Isle de Jean Charles

Meet two residents of a tiny island vanishing in the rising waters of the Louisiana Bayou.

by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
Lesson Plans
High School
Lesson Plans
High School

Student Projects to Foster Inquiry and Curiosity

Student Project Hands on stump
Document Your Place on the Planet

This project is inspired by our film Earthrise. Students will take a photograph that captures their sense of place and relationship to the Earth.

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Student Project Hands pouring tea
The Artifacts in Our Lives

In this project, students will photograph an artifact and tell its story. What stories do artifacts tell? 

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Student Project stargazing