Curated OER
Nobel Peacekeeping
Students examine the goals of eradicating poverty, preventing conflict and promoting democracy--outlined in Kofi Annan's 2001 Nobel Peace Prize lecture--as they apply to today's news.
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No Place Like Homelessness
Students complete a unit of activities that help them understand homelessness, its causes, and ways to better the situation. In this homelessness lesson, students complete five activities that help them to define homelessness and its...
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Dr. Martin Luther King
In this mathematics worksheet, students identify and define various vocabulary terms related to Dr. Martin Luther King by solving addition problems. There are nine problems to solve on the sheet.
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Mozart
In this music activity, students read a brief excerpt about Mozart's music and life. They respond to 11 questions in complete sentences related to the excerpt on Mozart.
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Why Wait for the G-8?
Learners reflect on what they consider to be the top global issues that world leaders face. They discuss the growing tension between the United States and Russia on the eve of the 2007 G-8 Summit by reading and discussing the articles....
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Arsenic Globally
Young scholars, using directed questions, identify five internet resources. They use these resources to identify relevant information by highlighting those sections that address the provided questions. Students present the answers to...
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Street Children - A Topical Lesson Plan From Learn.co.uk
Students explore poverty-related issues, use research, discussion and class work to further understanding of situations in developing countries,
and discuss and compare Students own school life with that of children in developing...
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Radio Program #12-The War On Poverty
High schoolers identify the purpose and core elements of programs of the "War on Poverty" and its projects in southeastern Ohio. Students interview people in their community who have helped the poor in some way. Explore unique ways to...
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Child Poverty - The Wrong Trainers
Students study the problem of child poverty. They observe videos and recognize potential problems causing the poverty. Students investigate governments' spending decisions. They suggest possible solutions to child poverty. Students...
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Offering Social Action To Address Poverty
Learners examine the problem of proverty throughout the United States. Using documents, they are encouraged to develop empathy for the poor of America and how to make life easier for those in their local community. They create a piece...
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The Elderly Poor: Human Rights
Students examine facts about the elderly population of the United States that lives in poverty through the context of universal human rights. They participate in class discussion, review census records, read case studies, interview...
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Strategies for Economic Development
Students develop some suggested strategies that are used to help reduce poverty. The skill of development is the focus. The incorporation of theories and strategies are learned in a problem solving exercise. The political issues are...
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Poverty, Inequality and Income Distribution
Students view a PowerPoint presentation on poverty in the UK and then research and discuss different strategies available to governments for tackling poverty through fiscal policy.
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Plagued by Poverty
Students investigate the nature, causes and statistics of diseases in lesser-developed countries and explore ways in which disease impacts the global population. They write a speech regarding disease in their country and how to prevent it.
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What can we do to help end hunger?
Young scholars identify courageous people throughout history that have fought hunger and look for local examples as well. They consider how we can fight hunger and malnutrition in our communities and the world.
Library of Congress
Loc: The Great Depression and the 1990s
This site includes a unit about the Great Depression. Learners will create a creative writing based on Dorothea Lange's 1936 "Migrant Mother" photograph. They will also write a position paper on the United States' current welfare issue....
Columbia University
Nasa: Sedac: Poverty Mapping: Map Gallery
[Free Registration/Login Required] Included is a large array of maps showing poverty on a global scale as well as maps of individual countries. The maps show poverty measured in several different ways. PDF files may take awhile to download.
Forum Romanum
Outlines of Roman History: Times of the Gracchi: Causes of Civil Strife
In a chapter from William Morey's 1901 textbook, he explains the make-up of the Roman populus at the beginning of the Late Republic.
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill Companies: Critical Thinking Exercises
10 valuable critical thinking exercises ranging in subject matter. Includes questions and exercises regarding biological development, language usage, morals, values and ethics, and thought cycles.
Columbia University
Nasa: Sedac: Poverty and Economic Indicators
[Free Registration/Login Required] A collection of twelve data sets from SEDAC (Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center) that examine global poverty and economic factors that contribute to poverty. They look at infant mortality,...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Botswana Today
Learn about the achievements and national problems of the African nation of Botswana in this video segment from Wide Angle.
Social Science Education Consortium
Ssec: How Can a Family Be in Poverty and Not Be Poor? [Pdf]
This investigation helps students examine issues related to measuring poverty. Is reducing poverty an appropriate economic role for government? How do you measure poverty? What is not examined when measuring poverty? What are alternative...
US Census Bureau
United States Census Bureau: Poverty in the Us [Pdf]
The US census report on poverty published in 2001.
US Census Bureau
U.s. Census Bureau: Poverty
The U.S. Census Bureau offers the official statistics on poverty.