Global Education: Why Learn? (3-5)
What are the effects of educating every child in the world?
Students play a game that explores the difference between rights and privileges. Students listen and respond to the text of Nasreen’s Secret School by Jeanette Winter, a picture book about a school in Afghanistan. This book will set the stage for a discussion around the importance of education and what people can do to promote schooling for all around the world.
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.
Respond to the text of Nasreen’s Secret School by Jeanette Winter, a picture book about a school in Afghanistan. This book inspires a discussion around the importance of education and what people can do to promote schooling for all around the world.
Students explore the issue of education as a right that not everyone has access to. Students plan and complete a service project to help expand access to education around the world.