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- Table of Contents and Preview download >>
Preview the table of contents of Engaging Students Through Global Issues
- Bears in the Air download >>
Through a game in which an object is tossed as fast as possible around a circle, students experience the limits of success, redesign their “tossing system”, and identify assumptions that drive behavior.
- Biodiversity Connections download >>
Students simulate biodiversity within an ecosystem by assuming the identities of resident plant and animal species in a forest stream ecosystem.
- Creating Our Future download >>
Using an action-planning model, students visualize their desired future, identify objectives, develop a plan to address local and global issues, and implement their vision through action and service learning.
- Crossword Puzzles download >>
Introduce your students to global issues and sustainability vocabulary words and concepts.
- Every Drop Counts! download >>
A series of water-related lessons beginning with a water trivia game and a short demonstration of how much of the Earth’s water is available for human and other species’ needs.
- Farming for the Future download >>
Through a simulation activity, students experience the challenges faced by subsistence farmers in the developing world.
- Fishing for the Future download >>
Students model several consecutive seasons of a fishery and explore how technology, population growth, and sustainable practices impact fish catch and fisheries management.
- From Issue to Opportunity download >>
Students develop criteria for determining what makes an issue global in scope and then brainstorm, categorize, and prioritize the interconnections among them, and explore solutions.
- Fueling the Future download >>
Students compare energy use and CO2 emissions by sector in the United States and China (and optionally in another country).
- Global Issues Trivia download >>
Use this trivia game to test your students’ knowledge of global issues.
- How Big is a Billion? download >>
A short demonstration of what 1 billion looks like, using increasing amounts of rice to represent the world’s population. Students then create their own representations of 1 billion.
- Is It Sustainable? download >>
Students define and discuss sustainability and its 3 key components: the economy, the environment, and society.
- Livin’ the Good Life? download >>
Students develop indicators to measure quality of life and conduct a survey of peers and adults to obtain data for their indicators.
- Making Global Connections download >>
Students demonstrate the interconnectedness of global issues and solutions through a kinesthetic exercise using global issue cards and a ball of yarn.
- Metaphors for the Future download >>
Students use metaphors describing different degrees of control we have over our future to explore how worldviews and mental models influence and shape our actions.
- Microcredit for Sustainable Development download >>
Students research a developing country and then apply for a $100 microcredit grant to start a small business, as if they were a person living in that country.
- Partners for Health download >>
Students learn about the impact of today’s most urgent global health issues (such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis), and practical solutions to help address these issues.
- Seeking Asylum download >>
Through a simulation, students experience the difficult choices and struggles facing refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) when they are forced to leave their homes.
- Shop Till You Drop? download >>
In this simulation, students experience how resources are distributed and used by different people based on access to wealth.
- Systems Are Dynamic download >>
Students experience the dynamic, interconnected, and self-organizing nature of systems through an exercise in which they move around an open space trying to stay an equal distance between 2 other people.
- Taxes: Choices and Trade-offs download >>
In this federal tax simulation lesson, students representing “special interest groups” discuss, recommend, and lobby for a budget allocation for federal tax spending.
- Three Faces of Governance download >>
Students create a national energy policy via cooperation and negotiation among the 3 faces of governance: the State (Government), Civic Organizations, and the Private Sector.
- To Fight or Not to Fight? download >>
Students examine a variety of international and intra-national conflicts through a role-playing activity. They learn to identify the roots of conflict, how to separate positions from interests in a conflict, and experience mediating a conflict.
- Watch Where You Step! download >>
Students identify the components of an Ecological Footprint by creating a web diagram of all the resources they use in their everyday lives and the mark or “footprint” this consumption leaves on the environment.
- What’s In The News? download >>
In this media literacy activity, students use an “iceberg model” to analyze the global patterns and underlying structural causes that drive events in the news.
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- Table of Contents download >>
The table of contents for Teaching Sustainability in the Primary Grades: A K-4 Curriculum Guide
- Map of Myself: Identity and Culture (lesson 1) download >>
Students explore personal and cultural identity through nonverbal activity, songs, personal maps, and a story. They also explore the hopes and challenges presented by diverse identities.
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- Table of Contents and Preview download >>
The table of contents and part of the first chapter
- Scavenger Hunt for Global Issues and Sustainable Solutions download >>
Scavenger hunt and answer key for students to investigate information in the Global Issues and Sustainable Solutions textbook.
- Teacher's Companion to the Global Issues and Sustainable Solutions Textbook download >>
Reading review and assessments for Global Issues and Sustainable Solution
- Teachers Companion Answer Key download >>
Answer Key to questions from the Global Issues and Sustainable Solutions Teachers Companion
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- Table of Contents and Preview download >>
The table of contents and first page of each chapter for It's All Connected.
- About the Authors download >>
Read about the writers of Its All Connected
- Article Review of Its All Connected download >>
A review from Middle States Council for the Social Studies
- Chapter 1 download >>
The entire first chapter of Its All Connected
- Teacher's Companion to It's All Connected Textbook download >>
Reading review and assessments for It's All Connected textbook
- Teachers Companion Answer Key download >>
Answer Key to questions from the Its All Connected Teachers Companion
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- Climate Change: Connection and Solutions, Grades 6-8 (128 pages, 4.13 MB) download >>
An interdisciplinary, self-contained 2-week unit aligned with national education standards that lays the foundation for understanding some of the forces behind climate change and its connections to numerous social, economic, and environmental factors. Funding provided by Hewlett-Packard Company.
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- Climate Change: Connections and Solutions, Grades 9-12 (125 pages, 4.13 MB) download >>
An interdisciplinary, self-contained 2-week unit aligned with national education standards that lays the foundation for understanding some of the forces behind climate change and its connections to numerous social, economic, and environmental factors. Funding provided by Hewlett-Packard Company.
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- Table of Contents download >>
The table of contents for Understanding Sustainability: Two-Week Unit for Life, Physical, and Earth Sciences Grades 6-8
- Lesson Overview download >>
Suggested sequence of activities found in Understanding Sustainability: Two-Week Unit for Life, Physical, and Earth Sciences Grades 6-8.
Thanks to funding from The Russell Family Foundation, the Marine Conservation Alliance Foundation, and National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, we have state-specific versions of this unit available for Alaska and Washington State teachers free of charge. Email us at curriculum@facingthefuture.org for your free copy.
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- Graphs and Overheads download >>
A key piece of our presentations is highlighting the trends that the world and its inhabitants face. Most of the graphics in this section are graphs, suitable for making overheads for your class or presentation.
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