Discusses various elementary school projects to foster global awareness in students. In one social studies classroom, students discuss latest news headlines, write in their new update journals, and construct globes of the earth. (KC)

Map exercises designed to graphically illustrate the concept of interdependence are provided. Students locate points of origin for current news items on a world map, and then locate other places on the map where those same news items will have economic, political, or social consequences. (Author/DE)

Description of a newspaper-school teaching project in Peoria, Illinois, that attempts to motivate student interest in world affairs and international interdependence. The project involves student activities complemented by newspaper clippings on topics such as culture, agriculture, and sports. (ND)

Presents a section of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's, "Atoms for Peace," 1953 address to the United Nations General Assembly. Suggests using the document for classroom discussions of nuclear proliferation, emphasizing that using primary sources develops research skills, activates classroom discussions, citizenship, and creative…

Provides learning activities concerning the horizontal proliferation of nuclear weapons. Includes step-by-step directions for four activities: (1) the life cycle of nuclear weapons; (2) nuclear nonproliferation: pros and cons; (3) the nuclear power/nuclear weapons connection; and (4) managing nuclear proliferation. (NL)