Find suggested books, websites, articles, videos, lesson plans, activities and other resources on poverty & wealth inequality issues to help you learn and/or teach about this topic.
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Population and Overpopulation Global Issues Guide
Find suggested books, websites, articles, videos, lesson plans, activities and other resources on population and overpopulation issues to help you learn and/or teach about this topic.
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Media, Media Literacy and Marketing Global Issues Guide
Find suggested books, websites, articles, videos, lesson plans, activities and other resources on media, medial literacy and marketing issues to help you learn and/or teach about this topic.
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Slavery, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking Global Issues Guide
Find suggested books, websites, articles, videos, lesson plans, activities and other resources on slavery, forced labor and human trafficking issues to help you learn and/or teach about this topic.
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Pro-Hero and Anti-Bullying Global Issues Guide
Find suggested books, websites, articles, videos, lesson plans, activities and other resources on pro-hero & anti-bullying issues to help you learn and/or teach about this topic.
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The Art of Circumlocution and Verbal Evasion: Exploring Euphemisms
by Marsha Rakestraw “You can’t be afraid of words that speak the truth, even if it’s an unpleasant truth….I don’t like words that hide the truth.” ~ George Carlin We use euphemisms every day, words and phrases that are a less direct or “nicer” way of talking about uncomfortable, harsh or sensitive topics. Sometimes they…
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7 Groups to Help Empower Young Solutionaries
Young people are hungry to create a better world for people, animals, and the earth, but we’re not born knowing how to do that. Fortunately there are numerous organizations whose mission is to help educate, inspire, and support youth in their efforts to become effective solutionaries. Here are 7 just we wanted to highlight: Do…
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Students Compete to Create a Better World in First Solutionaries Congress
by Marsha Rakestraw Many schools have debate teams that choose an either/or side regarding a current event and then gather evidence and argue against other teams to support their chosen side. But what if instead of just discussing important issues, students were challenged to develop realistic, meaningful solutions to our pressing global problems? Students did…
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Most Good, Least Harm
Learn direct ways to become involved with the community, make better choices as consumers, and develop positive messages to live by, and discover that our simple decisions really can change the world.
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Whom Do You Pet & Whom Do You Eat?
What are our relationships with different kinds of animals, and why do those relationships exist? Lead students in an activity that explores why we treat different types of animals differently, and how we can learn to view them with different eyes.
Recommended grades: 5 and upTime: 60 minutes
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