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Frelick, Bill – Social Education, 1985
Practical advice on teaching about genocide is provided. Specific learning activities to help secondary students arrive at a more experiential awareness of such inhumanity are suggested. (RM)
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Genocide, Global Approach, Learning Activities
Intercom, 1982
Suggests activities focusing on the relationship between meeting human survival needs and the environment for use with junior high students in geography courses. Students learn about human survival needs, the earth's systems, and the sun's roles as an energy producer. (RM)
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Geography Instruction, Global Approach, Junior High Schools
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Alexander, Mary; Childress, Marilyn – Social Education, 1980
Presents a transcript of a decoded telegram which describes events surrounding the death in 1924 of Robert Imbrie, United States Vice Consul to Tehran, Persia (presently Iran). Background information and suggestions for teaching are included. (KC)
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Learning Activities, Primary Sources, Secondary Education
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Pahl, Denis; And Others – Social Science Record, 1989
A bibliography of readings on human rights is followed by a human rights unit which provides an outline of topics for classroom instruction. Resources, major objectives, and four activities are provided. (KO)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Civil Rights, Global Approach, Instructional Materials
Van Vliet, Lucille W. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1988
Describes a lesson designed to involve students in grades 6 through 8 in learning how geography was affected the problem of world hunger. Emphasis is placed on using maps, globes, atlases, and geographic dictionaries, as well as books, magazines, and other resources. (MES)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Elementary Secondary Education, Hunger, Learning Activities
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Eddings, Evyonne – Social Studies Texan, 1992
Describes a lesson plan that explains the role of compromise as a method of resolving conflicts for use in a sixth-grade world cultures class. Includes activities, assessment, reteaching activities, and an extension project involving student skits. (DK)
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Elementary Education, Grade 6, Interpersonal Relationship
Gardinier, Meg – Momentum, 1992
Discusses the effects of war on children, the exploitation of children worldwide, and the current efforts of the United Nations to protect them. Suggests several classroom activities and an exercise based on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child to encourage student awareness. (DMM)
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Children, Childrens Rights, Elementary Secondary Education
Dale, Lawrence R. – 1983
Economics teachers at the secondary and postsecondary level are provided with an overview and general recommendations for effective use of games and simulations. Material is divided into two sections. In section 1, a description of card games, board games, activities, and puzzles is followed by a discussion of the advantages of each of these types…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Educational Games, Learning Activities, Learning Strategies
Intercom, 1982
Suggests activities to develop junior high students' capacity for perspective consciousness considered a key to an effective study of global issues. For use in geography courses, the activities help students understand why different perspectives exist on an issue and how groups share understandings among their members through communication. (RM)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Cultural Differences, Geography Instruction, Global Approach
Ground Zero, Washington, DC. – 1982
Intended as a starting point for junior and senior high school teachers, this guide contains five lessons that give an overview of the nuclear age and provide the most basic information that students must learn in order to understand the threat of nuclear war. Topics of the lessons include the history of weapons development, how nuclear weapons…
Descriptors: Disarmament, Glossaries, Learning Activities, Nuclear Warfare
Intercom, 1982
Presents three lessons which demonstrate to junior high students in geography courses that knowledge of "where things are happening" is essential to an understanding of global issues. Students use the basic tools of geography to examine population distribution, world resources, and the water crisis. (RM)
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Geography Instruction, Global Approach, Junior High Schools
Murphy, Elaine M. – 1985
This document consists of answers to questions on various aspects of world population. They are: What is the population of the world? How fast is the population of the world growing? When will the population of the world stop growing? Is the term "population explosion" accurate? Why did this sudden growth occur? Did people have more babies than…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education
Kempf, Stephanie – 1997
This manual engages young people in the task of helping save their less fortunate peers from hunger and starvation. The activities give students the knowledge to take action on the causes of hunger and their capacity to change the world. Global hunger, caused by the economic and social forces that result in a billion people going to bed hungry on…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Hunger
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Schwartz, Richard H. – Journal of Geography, 1983
Geography teachers can use mathematics to teach fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students about critical global issues. Five sample problems concerning population, poverty, waste, the arms race, and hunger are presented. The global issue related to each problem is discussed, and the solution and mathematical skill are provided. (RM)
Descriptors: Disarmament, Geography Instruction, Global Approach, Hunger
Peters, Richard – 1986
If the nation and world community are to control population growth, better manage finite resources, provide adequate quantities of food and water, improve the quality of the atmosphere, and prevent further extinction of plant and animal species, then a program to educate a generation of quality environment-oriented people must be initiated.…
Descriptors: Conservation Education, Conservation (Environment), Ecological Factors, Elementary Secondary Education
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