December 2006
Climate Change:
Students will research and discover the concepts of climate change and global warming and their importance. Through internet searches and the use of libraries, students will attempt to define and explain climate change and global warming. In groups, students will research their communitys contribution to climate change. With this knowledge in hand, students will brainstorm a local organization or business that they feel either a) contributes to climate change and the greenhouse effect or b) helps to prevent climate change and the greenhouse effect. Student groups will research, visit, and/or call these organizations to find evidence for their arguments.
November 2006
Who is a Global Citizen?: As the world grows smaller and smaller, we find ourselves ever-more interconnected. It has become increasingly important to keep the global perspective in mind, even when working just within our own communities. In the following activity, students as a group will brainstorm the types of issues, values, rights, and communities which global citizens care about. Together, they will discuss the types of actions they can imagine global citizens carrying out in order to improve or contribute to their communities. In groups, students will brainstorm about a person in their community that they feel exemplifies global citizenship. Through internet research and a personal interview with the person they have chosen, students will create a presentation introducing this person and his/her work to their partner country. Students will follow up by discussing the issues they most care about in their communities and worldwide, and how they can work in their own communities to make a difference.
October 2006
Who Am I?: Students will explore the levels of identity that they personally feel make them who they are. Students will then create group presentations about their national identities, and attempt to describe the complexity and diversity of what it means to be a member of their society/nation. Students will exchange these presentations with their partner classroom. Students will gain an understanding of the similarities and differences between their own identities and the identities of their classmates, and also the similarities and differences between their national identity and that of their partner classmates.
May 8-25, 2006
Media:
The objective of this lesson is for students to explore their school community and learn about their partners through the lens of media. Students create a newsletter that describes current events in their school. Students have the opportunity to learn about the similarities and differences in their school community.
April 21-23, 2006
Work in my Community: April 21st-23rd is Global Youth Service Day! Global Youth Service Day is the largest annual celebration of young volunteers, where millions of young people in countries everywhere highlight and carry out thousands of community improvement projects. In order to celebrate this global youth movement this months lesson is focused on Youth Community Service. The objective of this lesson is to give students a chance to work together to do something positive for their school community.
March 13-24, 2006
International Garbage: The objective of this lesson is for students to discover where the garbage from their community ends up and to explore the impact of garbage in the lives of their partner country. Where does garbage from your community go? Through personal investigation, internet research and interviews, students discover where the trash in their garbage can ends up. Through online forums students discuss the impact that trash has on their and their partner countries environments.
February 20-24, 2006
Conflicts: Students explore the concept of conflict and what this means in their everyday lives. What type of conflict to teenagers around the world share? Problems with parents? Teachers? The government? Through polls and surveys of their fellow classmates, students examine problems that are faced on a global level by teenagers. January 16-27, 2006
Youth In Action: Students begin to explore the role of youth in their society. By conducting oral history interviews with parents and adult community members, youth begin to ask such questions as: “How has the youth generation effected change in our history?” “How has my role as a youth been shaped by the actions of the past generation?” . Students look at the roles that teenagers have played in history and how they might effect positive change for the future. Through the forums students share their findings and read about the actions of youth generations in other countries.
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