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- 8th - Higher Ed
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Students engage in a debate about the obligation each country has to help other countries in need in order to help build their conversation skills. The format of the debate is imbedded in this lesson plan. Full Review »
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- 10th
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Students name and describe the Four Stages of Demographic Transition and identify countries in each of the four stages. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students examine various aspects of world hunger. They take a pre-test, play a map game, analyze and discuss world hunger statistics, write an essay, complete a graphic organizer, and write a report on an assigned country. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students study the story of student journalist Casey Parks' September, 2006, journey to Central Africa with New York Times columnist, Nicholas Kristof. They then act as representatives to the tourism boards of developing countries and produce materials that inform, welcome and educate young prospective visitors to their lands. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students identify misconceptions of third world countries. They examine other ways to judge a country's progress. They also discuss the difference between developed and third world countries. Full Review »
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- 10th - 12th
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Students perform raps and analyze issues among the rich and poor. They explore how countries are labeled as "third world" and "first world." They create a dialectical journal and examine the country of Nigeria through the reading of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students participate in activities determining the state of a country, whether it is developing, less-developed, under-developed or a Third World country. Using visual representations, they discover how easy it is to misperceive a nation. They identify other factors that need to be analyzed to properly tell the state of the country. Full Review »
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- 10th
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Students are presented with a hypothetical scenario with a problem that needs to be solved: You are an analyst for the State Department and look at various countries to determine their threat to world peace. The report is to be given to the president. The scenario calls upon students to be observers and active problem solvers. Full Review »
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- 9th - 10th
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Students brainstorm a class list in which they identify the positives and negatives of the effect of the computer on society. Using this information, they identify the benefits and challenges the computer would face by being introduced to a third world country. In groups, they take on the role of other members of their group and their point of view to argue them in a debate setting. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students identify and interpret Spanish heritage, including the Mediterranean culture, language, history, trade, and migration. Following, they began an in-depth study of Egypt, the Middle East, Greece, and Rome and were able to make connections with the Spanish heritage and distant civilizations. Finally, students made the study of Current Events timelier by comparing present-day labor practices in third World countries. Full Review »
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