Grades:
3
4
5
Students play a game that explores the difference between rights and privileges and challenges their expectations about basic rights. Students will explore the issue of education as a right that not everyone has access to....
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Unit: Global Education: Why Learn? (3-5)
Unit: Global Education: Why Learn? (6-8)
Grades:
6
7
8
Students compare and contrast attributes of school systems across the globe. They will work in small groups to identify the successes and possible school improvements in their own school system and in vulnerable schools around the world.
Unit: Global Education: Why Learn? (9-12)
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students explore the effects on themselves, the community and the world if the government failed to provide US children with an education.
Unit: Helping Refugees
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Grades:
9
10
11
12
In this two-part lesson, students view a film and read about the work of UNHCR with refugees. They complete a worksheet about protection of and support for refugees and then discuss the topics in a fishbowl-style discussion group.
Unit: The Four R's: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, RESPECT!
Grades:
K
1
2
The purpose of this unit is to learn the term “reuse” as it pertains to trash and the environment. They will do this by working together in groups to brainstorm ways that they can reuse trash and why it is important. They will review what the term philanthropist means (someone who...
Grades:
K
1
2
The purpose of this unit is to bring together everything that we have learned into a philanthropic act. The goal is to have students realize that they can make a difference in our world by acting as a philanthropist by taking care of the Earth...
Unit: Water Makes Our World Go 'Round
Grades:
K
1
2
Learners develop an understanding of the water cycle. They will then use this knowledge to create a tactile model of the water cycle and then relate these ideas to the importance of water conservation....
Grades:
K
1
2
Learners will explore the various states that water may take. Activities will help them learn the importance of accurate water measurement and how that may be used in conjunction with water conservation....
Unit: What's All the Commotion in the Ocean?
Grades:
K
1
2
The purpose of this lesson is to motivate children to think about the ocean, it’s animals, pollution, and how to be environmental stewards by taking care of the habitat where these plants and animals live. Children will have a hands-on experience to...
Unit: The Heat Is On: A Unit Concerning Global Warming
Grades:
3
4
5
Using creative dramatics, the students will act out the Greenhouse Effect and discover how it contributes to the warming of our Earth.