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Website
Oxfam

Oxfam Canada

For Students 9th - 10th
Oxfam Canada looks to rid the world of poverty and injustice. Their official website outlines their history and their mission.
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Economics U$a: 21st Century Edition

For Students 9th - 10th
A micro and macroeconomics course for 21st century learners. 28 half-hour videos sessions with text and guides regarding markets, firms, supply and demand, perfect competition and inelastic demand, economic efficiency, monopolies,...
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Activity
Other

Miniature Earth: Comparative Demographics Worldwide

For Students 9th - 10th
Miniature Earth reduces the world's population to 100 to underscore the dramatic differences in wealth, age, faith, education, environment, and health among people who live on this planet. An excellent apply-what-you-know site for...
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Website
Columbia University

The Earth Institute at Columbia University

For Students 9th - 10th
Bringing people together to discuss Earth's environmental problems, The Earth Institute addresses climate change, environmental degradation, poverty, disease, and sustainable use of resources.
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Website
World Food Programme

Wfp: World Food Programme

For Students 9th - 10th
WFP is a United Nations organization whose mission is to eradicate global hunger and poverty. Their primary beneficiaries are victims of natural disasters, displaced people, the world's hungry poor, and women.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Child Poverty Rates Across the States, 2005

For Students 9th - 10th
A nice fact-sheet that gives the basic facts regarding children in American who are living at poverty levels or below. The numbers of children in poverty appear to be increasing to almost 13 million. The sheet identifies which ethnic...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Child Poverty Rates Across the States, 2005

For Students 9th - 10th
A nice fact-sheet that gives the basic facts regarding children in American who are living at poverty levels or below. The numbers of children in poverty appear to be increasing to almost 13 million. The sheet identifies which ethnic...
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Graphic
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Hunger in the World

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A great series of interactive lessons for learners to examine world hunger in a visual, easy-to-understand way.
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Other

International Medical Corps

For Students 9th - 10th
The International Medical Corps is a humaritarian, non-profit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving world suffering by providing health care training and relief.
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Interactive
Other

Care: Virtual Field Trips Archive: Ghana

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow a group of CARE youth ambassadors on their mission to Ghana, as they both learn about the country and provide help in ongoing CARE efforts in Ghana.
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Interactive
Other

Care: Virtual Field Trips Archive: Mali

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the African nation, Mali and the ongoing humantitarian projects of the CARE organization in the country.
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Interactive
Other

Care: Virtual Field Trips Archive: Honduras

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Central American nation of Honduras as well as the ongoing humanitarian aid projects in the country being fulfiled by the organization CARE.
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Website
Other

Salvation Army International

For Students 9th - 10th
International Christian organization that helps meet the human needs of people who are impoverished.
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Other

Adra

For Students 9th - 10th
ADRA is a organization associated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Its mission is to help improve the quality of life for those in developing countries.
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Other

Feeding America

For Students 9th - 10th
At the online home of one of the largest hunger-relief agencies in America, find extensive reporting and analysis of the problem of hunger in the United States, along with information about its network of food banks, a quiz to test...
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Website
Other

Feed the Children

For Students 9th - 10th
International humanitarian organization whose mission is "to provide desperately needed food and necessities to meet immediate needs".
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Website
Other

Action Against Hunger: Acf Usa

For Students 9th - 10th
Non-profit humanitarian organization dedicated to saving lives by "eliminating hunger through prevention, detection, and treatment of malnutrition, especially during and after emergency situations of conflict, war and natural disaster".
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Website
Other

Air Serv International

For Students 9th - 10th
Non-profit transportation organization that flies relief agencies around the world where humanitarian aid is needed.
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Website
Other

Care

For Students 9th - 10th
Home page for CARE, the global help agency. Page lists current crisis areas around the world.
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Website
Other

Stop Hunger Now

For Students 9th - 10th
Stop Hunger Now is a non-profit, international relief organization that works to feed the hungry world wide with direct aid.
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Website
United Nations

United Nations: Millennium Development Goals and Beyond

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the eight goals that the United Nations had set forth for the Millennium and read about how we have been doing. There is also a link to a new site where the UN has set seventeen new goals for 2016 and beyond.
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Primary
Arizona State University

Jaie: Vice President Pledges Aid

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Journal of American Indian Education provides a speech by vice-president Hubert Humphrey, the benefits of the War on Poverty for Native Americans are described.
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Article
Arizona State University

Jaie: What Are New Horizons?

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Journal of American Indian Education provides a 1965 speech by the chairman of President Johnson's Task Force on Indian Poverty, describes the future of the American Indian.

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