march: universal primary education
Objectives for the month:
1) Understand that there is not equal access to education around the world.
2) Understand the girls receive less education around the world but can promote more change when educated.
School wide challenge:
Share one of the facts from fundthefuture.org on Twitter, Facebook or other social media: Fund the Future
Lesson 1: Discussion as group or in pairs: Why is it important that we have an education? Does everyone have equal access to education around the world? Why or why not? Do you think girls and boys have equal access to education? Why or why not? What are the long term benefits of having an education?
Watch: How to Get Millions of Children in School and Learning video clip
Watch the video clip, ask students to make concept map of how being educated in a developing country, especially for a girl, affects their life and those of the people around them. Ask them to try and think outside of what the video offered. To Educate a Girl Trailer clip
Lesson 2: Watch the video clip, ask students to make concept map of how being educated in a developing country, especially for a girl, affects their life and those of the people around them. Ask them to try and think outside of what the video offered. To Educate a Girl Trailer clip 1 Educate a Girl Change the World clip 2
Lesson 3: Look at patterns for where children are and aren’t being education using the aworldatschool.org site with map. Project site and scroll over countries as whole class discusses. Look at some of the specific countries. Questions: What are some of the challenges for the people in these countries? What are the groups helping these countries? How specifically are they helping? A World At School-Map
1) Understand that there is not equal access to education around the world.
2) Understand the girls receive less education around the world but can promote more change when educated.
School wide challenge:
Share one of the facts from fundthefuture.org on Twitter, Facebook or other social media: Fund the Future
Lesson 1: Discussion as group or in pairs: Why is it important that we have an education? Does everyone have equal access to education around the world? Why or why not? Do you think girls and boys have equal access to education? Why or why not? What are the long term benefits of having an education?
Watch: How to Get Millions of Children in School and Learning video clip
Watch the video clip, ask students to make concept map of how being educated in a developing country, especially for a girl, affects their life and those of the people around them. Ask them to try and think outside of what the video offered. To Educate a Girl Trailer clip
Lesson 2: Watch the video clip, ask students to make concept map of how being educated in a developing country, especially for a girl, affects their life and those of the people around them. Ask them to try and think outside of what the video offered. To Educate a Girl Trailer clip 1 Educate a Girl Change the World clip 2
Lesson 3: Look at patterns for where children are and aren’t being education using the aworldatschool.org site with map. Project site and scroll over countries as whole class discusses. Look at some of the specific countries. Questions: What are some of the challenges for the people in these countries? What are the groups helping these countries? How specifically are they helping? A World At School-Map
January & February: world water crisis
Objectives for the month:
1) Students will be able to Understand the uneven distribution of water around the world.
2) Students will be able to Understand the negative affects of dirty water on people around the world.
School wide challenge: Give up nonwater drinks for two weeks through the Water Project Challenge?: Water Project Challenge, they send a kit to you and post back pictures and reports from the field of a community you have helped or Mini water challenges for a week: take shorter showers, turn off the tap….Unicef Tap Project
Extra water resources:
Last call at the Oasis
Drop in the Bucket on Twitter
H2O For Life Fundraising Site
Water Quiz link
TeachUnicef article on Water and Sanitation (has a taking action planning guide and case studies on children with water)
1) Students will be able to Understand the uneven distribution of water around the world.
2) Students will be able to Understand the negative affects of dirty water on people around the world.
School wide challenge: Give up nonwater drinks for two weeks through the Water Project Challenge?: Water Project Challenge, they send a kit to you and post back pictures and reports from the field of a community you have helped or Mini water challenges for a week: take shorter showers, turn off the tap….Unicef Tap Project
Extra water resources:
Last call at the Oasis
Drop in the Bucket on Twitter
H2O For Life Fundraising Site
Water Quiz link
TeachUnicef article on Water and Sanitation (has a taking action planning guide and case studies on children with water)
DECEMBER: ECONOMY
Objectives for the month:
1) Students will be able to understand what globalization is and how it has affected people positively and negatively 2) Students will be able to understand free trade and fair trade School Wide Challenge: Buy fair trade during the holidays Organization: fairtradeusa.org Lesson 1: Brief discussion. Are things we use made from other places? Do we speak other languages? Do we travel to other countries? Globalization explained video Globalization of McDonald's Video Ted Ed Video Clip on Containerization Lesson 2: Debrief HW (list of where things are made). What does it say about us/what does it mean? Define Free Trade. NPR's Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt lesson link Lesson 3: Fair Trade Fair Trade lessons Oxfam's Free Trade lessons Lesson 4: Pros and Cons of free trade http://sendaathletics.com/sweatshop-free/ |
november: poverty
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Objectives for the month:
1) Students will be able to define poverty.
2) Students will understand how poverty affects children's lives.
School Global Challenge: Unicef: Can you live below the line? or Can you go a week without buying anything?
Lessons are all based on the following unit from Unicef: Teach Unicef Poverty Unit 6-8
Lesson 1: Define poverty, predict and redefine, Face of Poverty lesson with video of Sasha and video from World Bank:
Who are the Extremely Poor? Video
Lesson 2: The roots of poverty
Lesson 3: The cycle of poverty
Lesson 4: Poverty and education in Haiti, research poverty and education in other countries as an extension or homework http://www.unicef.org/statistics/index_step1.php
Additional Resources:
1) http://www.edutopia.org/blog/film-festival-poverty-education-lessons
2) http://www.oxfam.org.uk/~/media/Files/Education/Resources/Global%20poverty%20learning%20day/2010_pre_conference_lesson_plan.ashx
3) http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/global-poverty-learning-day
1) Students will be able to define poverty.
2) Students will understand how poverty affects children's lives.
School Global Challenge: Unicef: Can you live below the line? or Can you go a week without buying anything?
Lessons are all based on the following unit from Unicef: Teach Unicef Poverty Unit 6-8
Lesson 1: Define poverty, predict and redefine, Face of Poverty lesson with video of Sasha and video from World Bank:
Who are the Extremely Poor? Video
Lesson 2: The roots of poverty
Lesson 3: The cycle of poverty
Lesson 4: Poverty and education in Haiti, research poverty and education in other countries as an extension or homework http://www.unicef.org/statistics/index_step1.php
Additional Resources:
1) http://www.edutopia.org/blog/film-festival-poverty-education-lessons
2) http://www.oxfam.org.uk/~/media/Files/Education/Resources/Global%20poverty%20learning%20day/2010_pre_conference_lesson_plan.ashx
3) http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/global-poverty-learning-day
OCTOBER: WORLD HUNGER
Objectives for the month:
1) Students will raise awareness on the uneven distribution of food throughout the world.
2) Students will be able to determine that the food they eat travels a distance to get to them and the reasons why.
3) Students will be able to identify what the World Food Program is and what they do.
School Global Challenge: Take one of the quizzes/challenges on WFP’s website
Organization: World Food Programme, http://www.wfp.org/
1) Students will raise awareness on the uneven distribution of food throughout the world.
2) Students will be able to determine that the food they eat travels a distance to get to them and the reasons why.
3) Students will be able to identify what the World Food Program is and what they do.
School Global Challenge: Take one of the quizzes/challenges on WFP’s website
Organization: World Food Programme, http://www.wfp.org/
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We all have to eat: The Future of Food video from National Geographic
Academic conversation about video clip. What is our (human) problem when it comes to food?
Feeding 9 Billion article National Geographic
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Where does your food come from?
Pick 3-5 items from your dinner plate. Identify where they have come from.
http://documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/webcontent/wfp203679.pdf
Investigate World Food Programme site together including Take the Quiz
http://www.wfp.org
Pick 3-5 items from your dinner plate. Identify where they have come from.
http://documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/webcontent/wfp203679.pdf
Investigate World Food Programme site together including Take the Quiz
http://www.wfp.org
SEPTEMBER: human rights
Objectives for month:
1) Students will become aware of human rights issues around the world
2) Students will raise awareness of human rights issues in the school.
3) Students will understand the work Unicef does for children's rights around the world.
School Global Challenge: Like or follow a human rights group on social media: Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram (the 6th grade will post some ideas on the bulletin board and announce them in the mornings), Unicef, Amnesty International...Check off that you have done this when someone surveys you at lunch or tell someone who doesn’t know about the 30 human rights what they are and how they were developed, earn your first global citizenship stripe!
1) Students will become aware of human rights issues around the world
2) Students will raise awareness of human rights issues in the school.
3) Students will understand the work Unicef does for children's rights around the world.
School Global Challenge: Like or follow a human rights group on social media: Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram (the 6th grade will post some ideas on the bulletin board and announce them in the mornings), Unicef, Amnesty International...Check off that you have done this when someone surveys you at lunch or tell someone who doesn’t know about the 30 human rights what they are and how they were developed, earn your first global citizenship stripe!
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What does it mean to be Human?
activity:
http://www.hrea.org/erc/Library/display_doc.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hrea.org%2Ferc%2FLibrary%2FABC.pdf&external=N
activity:
http://www.hrea.org/erc/Library/display_doc.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hrea.org%2Ferc%2FLibrary%2FABC.pdf&external=N
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights Video:
http://www.youthforhumanrights.org/what-are-human-rights.html
http://www.youthforhumanrights.org/what-are-human-rights.html