+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Issues to Stand By

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the concept of courage. In this character education lesson, students consider how to have the courage to stand up and fight for community issues.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Child Soldiers

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the military recruitment that exists in many foreign countries. They research the occurrence of using children in the military and its social implications. For research the lesson plan contains a great variety of...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Darfur Now Lesson Four: The Messages of Darfur Now

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore the work in individuals that are part of Darfur Now. In this human rights lesson, students also analyze the message of Weisel's Not on Our Watch. Students create found poems pertaining to social responsibility and activism.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

European Agriculture

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students make inferences on how physical geography affected the development of early civilizations and come up with solutions to global issues. For this physical geography lesson plan, students compare maps of the past to maps of today...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Interview with Meriwether Lewis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students ask questions and prepare responses to Meriwether Lewis and his expedition. In this journal instructional activity students present their questions to the class.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Powhatan Indians' English Boy

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders write a historical fiction narrative. In this interdisciplinary lesson, 6th graders read the historical fiction Henry Spelman: The Powhatan Indians' English Boy. Students write a piece from the point of view of the main...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Cooking on a Budget

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students explain if they like expensive or less expensive brands. They choose and eat a complete meal and evaluate themselves on its cost, nutrition and taste.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Henry Spelman: The Powhatan Indians' English Boy

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders read and analyze narrative writing by and about Henry Spelman, a boy-laborer who helped settle Jamestown. They read biographical information, discuss the harsh conditions, and write a narrative piece on Henry's experiences.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Be the Change You Wish to See

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Learners review the lessons from the whole unit before devising a plan of action for a volunteer effort. They work in teams using a worksheet to determine a social cause that they develop an effective idea to promote. They design an...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Read To Feed

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students read to accumulate pledge money to purchase a heifer for a needy family. For this reading for the needy lesson, students solicit pledges from family and friends for each book they read. They use the money from the pledges to...
+
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.
+
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: October 16th Is World Food Day

For Students 9th - 10th
Around the world, 870 million people do not have enough to eat, according to the U.N. World Food Program. Use this PBS NewsHour Extra lesson plan to help young scholars understand the global food crisis. Support materials are provided.
+
Lesson Plan
Cynthia J. O'Hora

Mrs. O's House: What Are Our Nation's Priorities Regarding Hunger?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Identify government funded food programs in the community. Students will consider facts about monies funded to support food for children in the United States and evaluate the ethics in organizations that give prizes to support feeding...
+
Lesson Plan
United Nations

United Nations Cyberschoolbus: Poverty

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A site designed for teachers, the UN Cyberschoolbus poverty curriculum provides teachers K-12 with seven units related to poverty. Each unit provides background, class activities, suggestions for community service activities, and links...
+
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Online News Hour Extra: Millennium Development Goals

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Examine slum conditions around the world and analyze how the UN Millennium Development Goals are working with help from this excellent lesson plan.
+
Lesson Plan
Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Teaching With the News: Famine in Somalia

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use a video, handouts, and news sources to explore the crisis in Somalia and examine the factors exacerbating the famine.
+
Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Hey, Mom! What's for Breakfast?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson students working in cooperative groups will: 1.Discuss food items they consume for breakfast. 2.Investigate elements of foreign culture, particularly food. 3.Use map skills to locate selected foreign nations. 4.Increase...

Other popular searches