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EARTH University
To learn more about EARTH University and Costa Rica, contact our good friend, Christopher Picado, owner of EduTours (and tell him Stacy and Teddy from AGS referred you!). Edutours partners with EARTH and handles ground transportation, lodging, food, and provides the most amazing tour guides. Contact info: [email protected]
Ad Council
The Ad Council is a great resources for locating public service announcements to use as models for the advocacy product. PSAs allow students to beome creators of content, rather than just consumers of content.
Weebly
Many of our students have no experience with website design, but Weebly is one of the easiest (and FREE!) sources for building sites with drag and drop features.
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United Nations Global IssuesAs an organization that works to address issues that one country cannot battle alone, the UN is a great starting point for brainstorming the social and scientific issues that have the greatest impact on our world. Many TGPLAN topics are directly linked to UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Mobile Loaves and Fishes CampaignThis campaign to raise awareness for our unhoused neighbors serves as a starting point for PSA analysis in our classes. Click on the image to see the first video in the series, and visit www.iamheremlf.org for more information.
Travel as a Political Act
The first chapter of Rick Steve's book Travel as a Political Act is required reading during our trip to Costa Rica, and serves as the primary text for a socratic seminar conducted about travel vs. tourism.
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