Resource Overview
Thematic unit for the middle school classroom on challenges impacting the well-being and happiness of people at a local, regional, and global level.
There are vast differences in wealth, energy use, health, and education levels among the over 7 billion people on the planet. Students analyze how these differences relate to population growth and explore strategies to ensure prosperous, happy, healthy lives for all.
Features of This Resource
- Unit includes 5 lesson plans, 1 student reading and a summative assessment.
- Excellent for teaching global citizenship and empathy for other people.
- 21st century challenges broken down and explored through multiple perspectives.
Unit Lesson Plans & Readings
The following are included with the purchase of the unit:
Lesson Plans
Chips of Trade
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Acting as countries in a simulation game, students discuss how resources are inequitably distributed throughout the world and how this...
Food for Thought
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Acting as residents of five major world regions, students compare various statistics that affect people’s health and well-being. Students will...
Lessons for Life
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Students read and discuss a short conversation between two Ethiopian girls about attending school and read and analyze poems about...
People on the Move
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Students participate in a “push/pull” simulation to identify reasons people migrate from one place to another and analyze the similarities...
Growing Up Healthy
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Through playing a board game, students are presented with various health-related scenarios that can hurt or help child health and...
Reading
Global Family Matters
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Our global family background reading: There are vast differences in wealth, energy use, health, and education levels among the over...
Lesson Plans
Chips of Trade
- Acting as countries in a simulation game, students discuss how resources are inequitably distributed throughout the world and how this...Food for Thought
- Acting as residents of five major world regions, students compare various statistics that affect people’s health and well-being. Students will...Lessons for Life
- Students read and discuss a short conversation between two Ethiopian girls about attending school and read and analyze poems about...People on the Move
- Students participate in a “push/pull” simulation to identify reasons people migrate from one place to another and analyze the similarities...Growing Up Healthy
- Through playing a board game, students are presented with various health-related scenarios that can hurt or help child health and...Reading
Global Family Matters
- Our global family background reading: There are vast differences in wealth, energy use, health, and education levels among the over...How Do I Get This Lesson Packet?
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