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The Peel District School Board is pleased to offer free resource kits, which are intended to provide teachers with the resources needed to create global classrooms.
Connecting global issues to the curriculum - a guide for grade 7 & 8 teachers
Gender Inequality
Habitat Earth
Water Unit Plan
Global Groundwork - youth creating foundations for the future
Connecting global issues to the curriculum - a guide for grade 7 & 8 teachers
Connecting Global Education to the Curriculum: a guide for grade 7 & 8 teachers is a new resource guide developed by a writing team from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. This resource was developed to assist grade 7 & 8 teachers when integrating global issues into the classroom. Each unit in this resource provides an overview of international development issues in the following areas:
- AIDS/HIV
- Canada's role in global development poverty
- economic injustice
- gender equity
- sustainable development
- water
You will also find helpful information about how your school can make its mark on the world stage through awareness building and the raising of funds.
Download entire kit (172 pages) 7,810 KB (Word Document)
Some of the lessons will require you to download worksheets, presentations or other material:
| Section: Making Development Sustainable |
| Completing the Picture |
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| Tools of Hope |
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| Colonialism |
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| Ecological Footprint |
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Section: Water, Water Everywhere... Will Earth Have Enough to Spare? |
| The Distribution of Water |
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| Water Footprint |
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| Water as a Commodity or a Human Right |
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| Solar Water Cleaner |
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| Women and Development in Africa & Central America |
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| Section: Improving Quality of Life for All Humans |
| Gender Inequality |
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| Life in a "Developing World" |
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| The HIV/AIDS Pandemic |
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| Global Sweatshops |
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Gender Inequality
This resource is based on the keynote speech by Stephen Lewis at the Peel District School Board Model UN in 2007. The lessons will introduce students to the issue of gender inequality in Canada. They can also be used as a diagnostic tool to help the teacher understand how much the students know about this issue.
Table of Contents
Download entire kit (22 pages) 154 KB (Word Document)
Habitat Earth
The lesson plans will educate students on food chains including producers, consumers, decomposers, carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores.
Table of Contents
Download entire kit (14 pages) 121 KB (Word Document)
Water Unit Plan
The lessons include an introduction and discussion on water related issues, as well as how the students can make changes in the world.
Students will assess samples either collected or given to them using a stream assessment protocol.
Tabel of Contents
Download entire kit (19 pages) 644 KB (Word Document)
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Global Groundwork - youth creating foundations for the future
As a conclusion to the year-long Global Groundwork program, a writing team from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education has developed this resource package to help teachers bring global issues into the classroom. Designed for use in grades 6 to 8, the kit provides an overview of international development issues in the following areas:
- Canada's global role
- education
- food and agriculture
- healthcare
- poverty
- water
You will also find helpful information about how your school can make its mark on the world stage through awareness building and the raising of funds.
Download entire kit (83 pages)- 451 KB (Word Document)
Some of the lessons will require you to download worksheets, presentations or other material:
| Water, water, everywhere |
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| Evaluation personal water consumption |
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| Poverty, Media and North America |
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| The value of a dollar |
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| Access to health care |
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| Understanding HIV/AIDS |
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| The HIV/AIDS cycle |
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| The importance of education |
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| Slums |
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| Introducing aliens |
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| Learning about the Millennium Development Goals |
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