Lesson Packet

Grades 6-8

Our Global Family unit

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SUBJECTS: Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies

TOPICS: Economics, Education, Food & Hunger, Migration, Public Health

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

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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 wellbeing. 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...

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