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Media Smarts

Unit Two: Celebrities and World Issues

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Develop media smarts by considering the power of celebrity involvement in world issues. A look at the work of such celebrities as Angelina Jolie, Oprah, and Bono prepare learners to develop their own media campaign for a global...
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GLOBAL WARMING

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Learners form definitions of the greenhouse effect based on prior knowledge, class discussion, viewing diagrams, and participate in group brainstorming sessions and class discussions related to the impact of the greenhouse effect and...
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Globalization's Effects on Indonesian Women

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders investiage the status of women in contemporary Indonesian society and the business strategies of companies located there. They create a Web page that explains the effects of globalization on Indonesian women and shows...
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Protesting Corporate Globalization

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the different ways that corporate globalization affects society. They research the World Trade Organization, International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and compare and contrast differing views on the role and impact...
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U.S. And Global Deforestation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers analyze graph showing global deforestation, view photograph of deforestation in Brazil's interior rain forest and examine three maps showing deforestation within the United States, describe political, economic, and social...
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Is Global Warming Affecting Hurricanes?

For Students 7th - 12th
For this hurricane worksheet, students use data charts showing the number of hurricanes and the severity of these hurricanes to determine if global warming is causing an increase in hurricanes. This worksheet has 2 short answer questions.
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"Tree of Peace": Critical Thinking About Revolution to Global Conflict

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders explore the importance of peace in society.  In this Global History lesson plan, 10th graders create a common vocabulary for the different elements that exist in a peaceful society.  Students discover the...
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Global Warming and Climate Change

For Teachers K - 9th
Young scholars explore the environment by writing a persuasive letter. In this global warming lesson, students identify the key problems with our energy consumption in the United States. Young scholars complete worksheets and write a...
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Child Soldier

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Learners identify the exploitations of child soldiers. In this global issues lesson, students listen to a story that puts them in the shoes a 16 year old child soldier. Learners discuss the plight of the teenager and then write creative...
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Epidemic Proportions

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students research epidemics that have devastated world population at various points in history. They share and calculate statistics obtained in their research and develop graphs comparing and contrasting how different epidemics affect...
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Social Studies: Global Women and Poverty

For Teachers All
Students conduct research and make comparisons about various global economies. Create graphic organizers to present their research findings and illustrate solutions to problems. Students discuss and debate issues based on what they have...
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Remote Sensing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers study the effects of global warming on specific organisms. They research the possible problems global warming is causing.
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Globalization and Foreign Investment

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers read articles and discuss how globalization effects investing as they address the question of why companies invest overseas. They explore portfolio investing, direct investing and participate in a role-playing exercise.
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Media Smarts

Making Media for Democratic Citizenship

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Pupils analyze global issues. In this video podcasting lesson plan, pupils research Internet and print sources regarding selected global development issues. Pupils plan and create video podcasts that feature their research findings.
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Chilling Predictions

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students research and prepare an almanac on the Arctic. They examine the laws that attempt to provide jurisdiction over this area and consider how these laws be affected if geography of the Arctic continues to change due to global warming.
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Weather

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers design and create a structure that acts as a greenhouse and measure and record temperatures within the structure over a 24 -hour period, research global warming and answer the given discussion questions.
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Professor of Ice

For Students 9th - 12th
In this environment experiment worksheet, students complete 3 experiments using ice. First they label each experiment and respond to the four questions given. Then students do the 3 experiments as stated, considering what the experiments...
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Global Wind Patterns Notes

For Students 8th - 10th
In this global wind patterns worksheet, students take notes on the wind patters in the southern and northern hemispheres. They indicate the latitude the winds occur at, the pressure, the characteristics and the direction the wind moves....
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Standard 4 Review-Human Impact

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In this human impact on the environment worksheet, high schoolers fill in the blanks to complete sentences about how humans have negatively affected the environment. They complete sentences about the actions taken to reduce and repair...
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Aurora to Magnetosphere Global Exploration

For Students 9th - 11th
In this magnetosphere global exploration instructional activity, students read about the instrument on board a satellite launched by NASA called the Radio Plasma Imager. This imager detects echoes from plasma clouds. Students calculate...
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Thermal Expansion and Sea Level Rise

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Learners conduct an experiment. For this water and sea level lesson, students conduct an experiment to see what happens to water levels when they are exposed to heat and discuss the effects of global warming on sea level.
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Graphing Sea Ice Extent in the Arctic and Antarctic

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students graph sea ice data and predict long term trends in the data. In this climate change lesson plan, students use sea ice data from the Arctic and Antarctic to construct line graphs. They use their graphs to predict the effects of...
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Using Repeat Photography to Map Environmental Hazards

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate the changes of their environment by experimenting with photography.  For this environmental observation lesson, students compare historic photographs of areas with pictures they have just taken.  Students...
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Going Green Collaboratively

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars create displays on what their local community is doing to help global warming and pollution. In this going green lesson plan, students create displays that will be at the local Community Center for observers to see.

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