Global Action Project

Community, Citizenship, & Environment Domain

Name: __________________________ Date: ____________________

Global Action Project Checklist and Activity Sheets
Directions: Use this planning checklist to help guide you through the process of finding
global issues of interest to you, planning, taking action, reflection, and evaluation.
Steps towards goal Date Completed Notes

Step 1: Choose global issue

Step 2: Choose one organization

that you wish to help. Explain
that organizations’ mission,
describe what they do,where
they are located.Consider what
you can do to help their mission.

Step 3: Make contact with a

member of the organization to
present a need you have
identified. Complete the two
activities associated with this
section.

Step 4: What do you hope to

accomplish by helping this
organization? What is your
overall goal?

Step 5: Goal planning: Do you

have a specific goal in mind?

Step 6: Outline of your Action

Plan

Step 7: Final draft of your Action

Plan

Step 8: Reflection, and

evaluation of Action Plan
 Global Action
Step 1: Choose Issue

Global Action Brainstorming: Human Rights

What is your understanding of human rights?
Human rights are rights that are available to all humans, without discrimination.

The following website includes video explanation of the Declaration of Human Rights. It breaks
down each right into a 1 minute video. Choose at least 10 to watch or read about.
http://www.youthforhumanrights.org/what-are-human-rights/videos/born-free-and-equal.html

What global issue do you plan to focus on? Sustainability / Trying to be sustainable because of
climate change

What is one human right associated with your chosen topic and why is it a global?
Maybe The Right to Public Assembly, because it’s something that can take some rounding up
of people to get change to happen. It is a global issue because the Earth is literally dying and
we need to do as much as we possibly can to help it. Commented [1]: Awesome connection here.

Who does this issue impact?

Everyone currently on the planet Earth, and everyone who will be on Earth at any point in the
future.

Who can do something about it? (Are there laws that need to change?)
We all can do things (small or large) to aid our planet, however federal action needs to be
taken to really make a difference, fast. Commented [2]: YES.
Are there two sides to the debate about this topic? What are they?
There are many people who somehow still don’t believe climate change is real, that is really
the main debate. There are also people who believe it’s real and happening, but they think it’s
happening much slower than it actually is.

Where is this global issue most prevalent?

All over the Earth, global warming has rapidly increased and caused more (and longer lasting)
droughts and heatwaves, melting ice caps and rising ocean levels.

[https://www.worldwildlife.org/threats/effects-of-climate-change]

What is already being done to try and solve this world issue?
For years people have been trying to combat the effects and causes of climate change by
recycling, thrifting, walking and biking, making plastic bags illegal, using solar technology,
contacting people who are higher up to try and get them to help, starting initiatives and
organizations.

List some organizations that are already working on this issue (3-5):

https://350.org/
https://citizensclimatelobby.org/
https://www.onepercentfortheplanet.org/
https://nextgenamerica.org/
Step 2: Find an organization that is connected your chosen issue. Explain that
organizations’ mission, describe what they do, and where they are located.

Issue Chosen
Global Warming / Climate Change

Name of Organization Connected to Issue

350 [https://350.org/]

Contact information (Who can you call/email for more information?)

[https://350.org/contact/]
It looks like they don’t provide an email address, but a set-up thing where you can
email them and leave your email

Mission (What is their goal?) Please explain in your own words.

350’s goal is to create all renewable energy, and create a world that is sustainable and
free of any fossil fuels.

List at least three things that they do to affect change.

350 has backed many organizations, large and small, make change. They have
supported renewable energy solutions globally, and unites smaller activist groups
together to make big differences.
 [https://www.resilience.org/stories/2019-01-11/inside-350-org-and-why-they-rise-for-
climate/]
[https://350.org/about/]

What do you hope to accomplish by helping this organization? How does this positively
impact the global issue you have chosen?
I hope to help stop climate change and keep the Earth alive and happy and healthy for
a long while. I think anything that anyone does to stop global warming helps, but there
definitely needs to be big changes right now, before the destruction we have caused
becomes irreversible.
Step 3: Make contact with a member of the organization with an identified need.
Complete this contact according to the parameters below:

Using the contact information gathered from step 2, make Notes

initial contact stating your intentions. This will be done using
email. The email must be written with fewer than three (Date of initial email written,
Date you heard back, etc.)
grammatical errors, include an introduction, intention, and
request for follow up by the organization. Print finished email
and save as draft in your gmail account.
Date I sent the email:
Goal: Find out - What is the most useful thing people can do 5/13/19
to help this organization or the cause in general?
Date I heard back:
5/15/19
Step 4: Explain in three to five paragraph reflection what you hope to accomplish by
helping this organization. What is your goal? What type of project will this be? What do
you want to provide(financial support, organize volunteers, create a community
awareness campaign, or start a donation drive)? (USE OTHER PAPER IF NEEDED) Commented [3]: Other question to consider: Why did
you decide to go with the type of action that you did?
How could you inspire others to join you if you followed
I hope to create awareness of the fact that we need a lot of change, very quickly, in through on this? How would you decide who to write
to?
order to stop global warming. I also hope to aid 350 and other groups and
organizations like them in the fight against climate change. In their response to my
email, Nona (from 350) said the most helpful thing an individual can do to benefit them
is “to be involved in local political activist groups that are pushing for large-scale
changes, to end the age of Fossil Fuels.” (They also said that 350 “[focuses] on large
scale, systemic sources of CO2 emissions more than individual action.” Which is why
they suggested joining groups.)

I would like to provide people with a place to raise awareness and a place that they can
take action, even if it’s small action or individual action. Through researching, I’ve
found that 350Vermont is asking people to write to Treasurer Pearce to tell him “[we]
support a low-carbon future for Vermont.” I decided to plan to write a letter to
Treasurer Pearce because I believe writing a letter or email is something that anyone
 can do, even if they’re not a part of an activist group. I could inspire others to do this
by spreading the word through people I know or through a social media outlet. I
decided who to write to by doing research on what action needs to happen, locally or
globally, and finding out what person or people are the deciding factors.

Step 5. Setting Attainable Goals- Use the checklist below to help plan a successful
project and to set a realistic goal.
 What is your stated Goal?
To raise awareness of and help stop climate change.
(I’m not sure if there’s any letter writing campaigns currently going on for this but I’m
going to fill this out in the context that there is one and I’ll write a letter to someone,
etc.)

What material/supplies do you need?

Paper (because I would Pen or other writing utensil Envelope, stamp, address
absolutely write an actual of person or building I’m
letter) writing to

What are your financial obligations? What do you need to buy?

Items to purchase Price

I feel like pen, paper, envelope, stamp are all

things I already have

Do you need volunteers to reach your goal? If so, how many and what would their job
duties be?
I don’t believe so. (In this narrative of me doing this, I would be doing it to aid an
 already formed activist group or something like that)

Other Resources or Support Needed

Do you foresee any challenges in making this project happen? How will you work
through those challenges?
I don’t really see any challenges.

How will you track work completed and progress towards goal?
Either by seeing if I would get a response from whomever I’ve emailed or if the group
(that I would be working with) gets an overall response.

How will you know if this project went well? (evaluation, surveys, etc)
I would be writing to someone who would have the power to either change something
to be going in the right direction or help other to do that so knowing that the project
went well would be having that person take steps to change things (laws, projects
 around carbon emissions, etc).

Step 6: Outline of your plan of action- Use the space below (or attached organizer) to
create a rough outline your action plan. You will need to include the stated goal, and
steps that include the entire process from planning to completion to evaluation.

Stated Goal: To work either by myself or with a group, such as 350Vermont, to write
letters to a person or cause, such as Treasurer Pearce, in order to create action and
awareness of the climate crisis.
Step One: Use resources through 350Vermont to get Treasurer Pearce’s (and/or other
people’s) letter-writing-contact information.
Step Two: Do research on what I will be writing about, to make sure I have relevant
facts and resources.
Step Three: Write letter.
Step Four: Send letter.
Step Five: Wait to hear response.
Step 7: Final draft of your Action Plan

Directions: Complete a final draft of your action plan using completed work, internet and
print resources, and any other tool that you find useful. You will need to complete the
action plan using google docs, word, or PPT. You will also need to complete the final
action plan with no support from others. Your final action plan will be assessed by your
instructor using predetermined criteria.

Members of the contact organization will want to determine:

● What action or change will occur

● Who will carry it out
● When it will take place, and for how long
● What resources (i.e., money, staff) are needed to carry out the change
● Communication (who should know what)

ACTION PLAN SAMPLE:

Objective: To write a letter to a person or cause, in order to create action and awareness of
the climate crisis.

What needs to By whom and What What evidence How and when
be done? when? resources? indicates will evidence
progress? be gathered?

Writing letter(s) Me Letter writing Getting a Once the

to Treasurer tools (either on response letters/emails/cal
Pearce paper to ls have been
physically mail in sent
or emailing
tools)

Calling Possibly an Telephone and Steps towards Once a

Treasurer activist group or the number to action being response is
Pearce (or other people call taken by gotten
others) who have the person/cause
same concerns,
such as
350Vermont
Step 8: Reflection & Assessment

Self Assessment: Use rubric to assess your skills during this project. Write any notes
below about what your strengths were during this process:

Student identifies their relationship to larger groups (specifically global issues):

I think I would be in “Exceeds” or “Highly Exceeds” for this one, because I identified and
researched a global issue independently.

Student researches a chosen topic using a variety of sources:

I think I would place me in “Meets” or “Exceeds” for this one, because I used a few resources
and contacted one (though, I didn’t tour it).

Student plans, implements, reflects on activities that respond to community needs:

Probably “meets’ for this one.

Student communicates (in all forms) clearly, logically, accurately, and convincingly:
I think “Exceeds” for this guy.

Staff Assessment: (at)

Student identifies their relationship to larger groups (specifically global issues):

Highly Exceeds- Chloe has a keen sense of her relationship to the larger world. She was able to
exemplify this in this project through her research on human rights and the connection to the
health of Earth.

Student researches a chosen topic using a variety of sources:

Meets- Chloe used a variety of sources to research how to make an impact on such a large
topic. She contacted an organization via email to get information on their needs. An interview or
in-person meeting would be a great way to continue on this skill. Especially getting involved
locally.

Student plans, implements, reflects on activities that respond to community needs:

Meets- Chloe created drafted a clear a plan based on her research, which would culminate in a
letter writing campaign. She responded to feedback by doing further research that would help
her project be more specific.

Student communicates (in all forms) clearly, logically, accurately, and convincingly:
Exceeds- Chloe is a very thoughtful and advanced writer. Choosing a writing campaign was
very fitting for her. Her strong use of language is sure to reach people and make an impact in
her future!