United West 5th Grade has been learning about Global Goals since we first opened our eyes in 4th grade. We care about our Earth and the people in it. 

Open Your Eyes: See What the World Could Really Be

Once upon a time......wait no this isn't a fairy tale. This is real....an actual real BIG problem. I didn't think there was a problem until I actually opened my eyes and thought about what we've been doing to the earth. It was Monday, December 2nd. I heard the beeping of my alarm clock and my mom hollered from the hallway to Wake UP! I did NOT want to go to school. I just got the new ForkKnife video game and I wanted to stay home and play all day.

The next day, I went to our school library and asked the librarian if she had any books on the Global Goals. She led me to the Global Goal section which I never knew we had. I found a very interesting book about something I had never heard of called The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It was twice the size of Texas and filled with tons of trash and plastic.

When I got to school I told Mrs. H. about the Global Goals and said we really need to act fast! She gasped and said "You are right Kevin! We need to organize a plan to teach everyone about the Global Goals." So I told all my friends and every person I saw. I even posted on SnapTalk to get the word out about Global Goals. As I got older, I decided to travel the world and I saw people living in poverty with little to nothing. Then I realized that we all need to pitch in and make a difference.

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Let's teach you what we need to do so you can teach others!&#160;

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Scene 8, Part 3-- Giving speeches about Global Goals.  Talking equality and partnership for the goals.  Natalie &#38; Ella

And in the end I won the "Noble Global" award for all my hard work in trying to save our earth.  

Flash yellow

If we all just open our eyes and work together we could make the world what we want it to be!

I was walking home and thinking about what Mrs. H. said. I looked up and squinted at an old rusty billboard. It was faded but appeared it had once been a rainbow of color. It showed goals that looked like they were for helping people and our earth.

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I started an entire town trash pick up day. 

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As I continued to walk I started to notice things I had never cared about before. I saw trash scattered everywhere at our beautiful park. I saw teenagers grumbling about life and having to go to school. Then at the soccer field a boy was not letting a girl play. I realized the Global Goals were actually important and something that we need to fix.

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I slumped into school despising every second of the day. School was the worst. It was boring. All the teachers talked about was math, history and English. Will we ever use this in our real life? NO! Then science class began and that's when my teacher Mrs. H. changed my life.

1 Week ago there was a whale washed up to shore and scientists discovered that the whale had 220 pounds of trash inside it.

this just broke my heart when I saw this on the news.&#160;

Wow!&#160; I didn't know this.&#160; We should really stop throwing trash into the water.&#160;&#160;

I went back to the classroom where it all began because Mrs. H. invited me to teach her students about the Global Goals. I got a lot of questions. It was so nice to see the kids so involved. It just made my day.

United West 5th Grade has been learning about the Global Goals since we first opened our eyes in 4th grade. We care very much about our Earth and the people in it. Our grade has been working very hard on trying to take action on making the Earth a better place. United West Elementary is located in the state of Illinois of the United States of America.

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