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How can we introduce global problems that affect children around the world? 

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How can we introduce global problems that affect children around the world? 

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Unicef offers teacher resources that connect with global issues such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child, novel study guides and different activities.

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These classroom-ready lesson plans for the elementary classroom were developed to help achieve curriculum aims.

Please view PDF files before printing. You may wish to copy and print certain lesson plans rather than the entire files, since some files exceed 50 pages.

Explore the link between rights and responsibilities with these participatory activities.

Convention on the Rights of the Child

Use these different versions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in your classroom.

Read the Convention in Other Languages

Use these different versions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in your classroom.

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These classroom-ready lesson plans for the elementary classroom were developed to help achieve curriculum aims. Please view PDF files before printing. You may wish to copy and print certain lesson plans rather than the entire files, since some files exceed 50 pages. Explore the link between rights and responsibilities with these participatory activities.

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How can we make connections between Canadian issues and the world? 

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How can we make connections between Canadian issues and the world? 

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Open School BC is a government resource that features a resources called Bamboo Shoots: Chinese Canadian Legacies in BC. This resource would be great to make connects with global problems such as racism and immigration.

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These free resources are designed to support teachers and students. Download the PDFs to:

Use as a course textbook

Get more practice in a difficult subject

Complete advanced study in a specific area of interest

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These free resources are designed to support teachers and students. Download the PDFs to: Use as a course textbook Get more practice in a difficult subject Complete advanced study in a specific area of interest

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Can we condense information on certain global problems and make it a format that is familiar to students? 

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Can we condense information on certain global problems and make it a format that is familiar to students? 

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Crash Course is a YouTube channel that highlights the key points on a range of topics but specifically has videos on government issues and history. Videos are usually no longer than 10 minutes which makes it easy to use for students as it is short enough to maintain their attention while still giving them the main idea.

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At Crash Course, we believe that high-quality educational videos should be available to everyone for free! Subscribe for weekly videos from our current courses! The Crash Course team has produced more than 45 courses on a wide variety of subjects, including organic chemistry, literature, world history, biology, philosophy, theater, ecology, and many more! We also recently teamed up with Arizona State University to bring you more courses on the Study Hall channel. Help support Crash Course at Patreon.com/CrashCourse.

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How can we give students insight to how other people live around the world? 

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How can we give students insight to how other people live around the world? 

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World Vision offers units for teachers on global issues from hunger, water, child workers, and education. Each unit includes case studies on people that live in these conditions which allows students to get a glimpse of what life is like for others.

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Where does activism come in and how does the government protect human rights? 

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Where does activism come in and how does the government protect human rights? 

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Stand Up For Human Rights is a great website that lays out the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights in a format that is easy for students to understand. It also displays current campaigns and provides profiles and videos on human rights activists across the globe.

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I will respect your rights regardless of who you are. I will uphold your rights even when I disagree with you

When anyone's human rights are denied, everyone's rights are undermined, so I will stand up

I will raise my voice. I will take action. I will use my rights to stand up for your rights.

people have stood up for human rights

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70th anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights

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I will respect your rights regardless of who you are. I will uphold your rights even when I disagree with you When anyone's human rights are denied, everyone's rights are undermined, so I will stand up I will raise my voice. I will take action.

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How is the world attempting to tackle issues today? 

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How is the world attempting to tackle issues today? 

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CNN 10 offers 10 minute video news segments targeted towards intermediate - high school students. New videos are posted each weekday and include world news stories plus fun/interesting stories.

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CNN 10 is an on-demand digital news show ideal for explanation seekers on the go or in the classroom.

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What types of problems have happened or are currently happening around the world? 

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What types of problems have happened or are currently happening around the world? 

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Newsela allows teachers to assign students articles which can be changed to fit various reading levels but still have the same content. In addition, quizzes can be assigned for comprehension. Newsela has articles on world issues from the past as well as current events.

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It's time to improve literacy skills during social studies instruction and ensure that readers of all abilities have what they need to access grade-level social studies concepts.

Join us on Thursday, December 7 for a look at scaffolded materials that provide extra literacy support while building key social studies concepts and skills.

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Newsela | Content and assessment platform

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Content Aligned To National & State Standard, Flexible To Support Relevant Curriculum. Find the Perfect Piece Of Content For Lessons. Go beyond the book.

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How can teachers assess student comprehension and understanding of global problems?

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How can teachers assess student comprehension and understanding of global problems?

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Currents4Kids is a Canadian resource that has current events that allows teachers to create classrooms and assign articles. Articles are accompanied by quizzes which provide teachers instant results. In addition, students can comment and discuss the articles on a safe online forum.

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Bees are the world's best pollinators. They pollinate a third of our food, and three quarters of our fruit and seeds.

But North American honeybees are in trouble. Why? Their hives are getting wiped out by varroa mites.

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Currents4Kids | Online Interactive Current Events for Grades 3 and up

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A 21st century teaching and learning tool that opens students' eyes to the world.

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What types of global problems affect our environment?

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What types of global problems affect our environment?

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BCTF & CIDA has uploaded unit plans that focus on global education for a variety of grade levels. Many of these unit plans focus on natural resources such as water and climate change.

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Unit plans designed for teachers, by teachers. The units explore the themes of global education across the grades and across the curriculum. The units contain all of the necessary handouts and materials to be easily utilized in the classroom setting and are consistent with the outcomes of the BC Curriculum.

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Can gamifying assessment increase student engagement?

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Can gamifying assessment increase student engagement?

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Kahoot! is a platform where students can collaboratively play or individually play from a device. Teachers can make their own quizzes that have a variety of questioning methods ex. true or false, multiple choice. Also, there are also quizzes made by other users and Kahoot! on numerous topics that can be played. This is a fun was to assess what students know.

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Kahoot!'s new student passes are a one-way ticket to take students from players to creators! Empower your students to engage in active learning with the tools they need to create and host kahoots that demonstrate their learning to the whole class.

With student passes your class will have access to:

The full functionality of the Kahoot! creator to make fun and engaging kahoots for their peers

Award-winning learning apps from Poio and DragonBox to master everything from the basics of reading and numeracy to algebra, geometry, and even chess

Premium Kahoot! features including exclusive question types like brainstorm, type answer, and puzzles, plus creation tools to create advanced slide layouts with our premium image library

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Make your students the hosts of their own learning experiences

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A student-centered learning platform and content hub designed to help students to take an active role in their education through powerful play