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After viewing the TED Talk Danger of a Single Story, participants will discuss in pairs situations in which they have perpetuated a single story, and been the target of a single story.
Exchange information about endangered and extinct species through mini case studies.
The following lesson engages young children in exploring the concept of family with emphasis on how families around the world share more commonalities than differences.
Match and discuss environmental issues and possible responses in small groups.
Assume a new identity and occupation to explore how food insecurity effects populations in different ways.
Students will examine how generalizations can be hurtful and unfair, and they will devise ways to qualify statements so they avoid stereotyping other people.
Students examine what it takes to make a hero in a story about digging a hole for a fishpond.
Students examine the culturally-based impulse to share with others versus the impulse to watch out for oneself or one's immediate family.
Students will be led to grasp the importance of understanding behavior from the perspective of the culture in which that behavior is the norm.
Learn about the benefits of sorting materials to be reused, recycled, or thrown away.
Learn how to make natural alternatives to chemical pesticides.
This lesson is a brief presentation of the spoken Mandarin language and some cultural behaviors in China.
This lesson plan engages students to illustrate the vast diversity of adaptations that animals use for survival, delineating how and why form fits function.
This lesson plan makes use of popcorn to help students understand and explore the concepts of renewable and nonrenewable resources and their use over time.
Go out into the community to collect and sort recyclable materials.
A lesson on the cultural differences and perceptions on running for sport.
Predicting the Future of Endangered Hawksbills
Students will examine themselves relative to their characteristics, abilities, and feelings. By making connections to children in another part of the world, they will discover that people are more alike than different.
Learners will examine the importance of perspective in how people perceive things.
Sort your garbage on a timeline to better understand decomposition.
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