Discusses childhood attitudes toward aging and the aged and offers 24 concepts for educators for developing educational programs to prevent the emergence of age stereotypes. Concepts include understanding the concept of time related to human experience, recognizing that every stage of life has its special opportunities and rewards, and that death…

Suggestions on how lessons on exploring global interdependence through data can be used in the classroom are provided. (DE)

Internationally experienced persons can help to bring global literacy to American students. To successfully make use of such persons as educational resources, the following matters require attention: advanced planning and teacher preparation, the preparation of the international resource person, class preparation, classroom interaction, and…

Contains six lesson plans and student materials for a unit on global food distribution and the problems of world hunger for secondary social studies classes. Students study nutrition, population distribution, poverty, the causes of hunger, and economic development, and generate personal actions to solve the hunger problem. (AM)

Explains how the use of cartoons and greeting cards in the classroom can help students identify and understand stereotypes of aging and older people. The activity, which takes one class period, involves the students in analyzing, discussing, and thinking of a word or phrase which best describes stereotypes illustrated on specific greeting cards…

Suggests how social studies classroom teachers can help students understand culture and folk art through study of folk tales. Activities involve students in class and group discussions of other cultures, story telling, illustrating folk tales, playing traditional games, and studying traditional foods and medicines. (Author/DB)

Three sample lessons for elementary grades are designed to help make children aware that one of the major features of modern society is its increasing interdependence. Each lesson focuses upon the concept of systems and subsystems in society. (SM)

The lesson is designed to acquaint students with the positions taken on environmental issues by leading jurists. Activities include writing the second act of an environmental play, role play, dramatic reading, and class discussion. (Author/DB)

Ideas for education concerning American attitudes toward developing countries and resolution of such worldwide problems as poverty and population are presented. These are designed to help students appreciate various dimensions of development related to their own world. (SM)

This simulation game is designed to give the student direct experience in conflict and cooperation. This exercise, a two-person instead of a group game, combines the primary elements of simulations--role-playing with a senario and a game format in which strategies have clear outcomes for the players. (SM)

The purpose of this article is: (1) to identify the problem of first importance raised by the trials: individual moral decisions in juxtaposition to the will of that individual's government; (2) to provide some guidelines for teaching; and (3) to outline broad procedures for effecting those guidelines. (Author/JB)

Two Latin American stories are presented as examples of tales which can help students explore the use of animals in folk tales and the special qualities of myth. The stories reinforce a global perspective by stressing commonalities among people from all cultures. (Author/DB)

Presents a case study of an Indian village to show how and why values change as a result of environmental change. Objectives, suggested teaching time, materials, teaching techniques, and discussion questions are included. (Author/DB)

The author makes a case using the question of military service and its personal and social implications as the focus of concentration in secondary social studies courses, and offers some theory and techniques for introducing it into the classroom. (Author/JB)

Two exercises are provided which give students a chance to experience systems, to discover some of the qualities of a system, and some of the implications of interdependence. In the exercises, students assemble a flashlight that does not have all the necessary parts and role play a mechanical system. (Author/DE)