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Odyssey: Teacher Zone: Middle East: Turkey Stay

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This teaching unit is based upon a "teacher trek" to the area in 2000 and focuses on essential questions on wealth and poverty. Activities are offered to help students explore the religion and culture of this country. Activities are...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Economic Sectors and International Development

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using poverty rate as a measure of development, students select countries five at a time to compare how resources are allocated to three economic sectors (agriculture, industrial, service). After making comparisons, students will...
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Population Reference Bureau: The World at 7 Billion

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive map offers statistical data on population, birth and deaths, life expectancy, HIV/AIDS, family planning, and poverty across the world in 2011. The information is also available as a table for all topics. A fascinating...
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Mother Jones: What It Will Take

For Students 9th - 10th
This blog article discusses population growth in the context of wealth, poverty, women's rights and birth control.
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Oecd: Millennium Development Goals [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is a list of goals and targets set forth for the new Millennium as decided by the Millennium Declaration which was signed by 189 countries worldwide. Some of the goals involve topics such as improving primary education,...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1865 1898: After the Civil War: The New South

For Students 9th - 10th
After the Civil War, there was some impetus to modernize the South's economy to make it more industrialized and less agrarian. It never gained traction while sharecropping and tenant farming did, ensuring the persistence of rural...
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Digital History

Digital History: Impact of the Women's Liberation Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the gains women have made in admittance to medical school and law school as well as participation in the political sector. Despite the successes, there have been failures also, especially in terms of women living in poverty.
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World Food Programme

United Nations World Food Programme: Peru

For Students 9th - 10th
World Food Programme is the United Nations frontline agency in the fight against global hunger. This site covers why Peru's economic growth rate has not been sufficient to reduce poverty or food insecurity and the resultant migration...
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Curated OER

Bbc: The Un and World Poverty

For Students 9th - 10th
This article from 2000 covers debt throughout the world and where poverty is focused. Speculates on possible problems and reasons why the poor nations are focused on certain continents.
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Curated OER

Poverty

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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Curated OER

Poverty

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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Library of Congress

Loc: Prosperity and Thrift: Poverty in the 1920s

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the groups of people in the United States that did not prosper in the consumer economy of the 1920s. These included farmers and recent immigrants.
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International Relief Teams

For Students 9th - 10th
This international relief organization is "dedicated to organizing volunteer teams to provide medical and non-medical assistance to the victims of disaster and profound poverty worldwide".
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Oxfam

Oxfam: Ethiopia

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the anti-poverty efforts of the international aid agency Oxfam in Ethiopia, as well as general facts and information about the people and environment in Ethiopia, in this Oxfam country profile page.
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Oxfam

Oxfam: Ghana

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the international aid agency, Oxfam's, anti-poverty efforts in Ghana, as well as an overview of facts and information on the people and geography of Ghana.
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Oxfam

Oxfam: India

For Students 9th - 10th
An international aid agency to eradicate poverty presents information on its efforts in India as well as general facts and information about the people and geography of India.
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Oxfam

Oxfam: Sudan

For Students 9th - 10th
Sudanese geography, history, environment, people and society as well as the work that Oxfam is doing in Sudan is described in this informative page from the international aid agency that fights poverty globally.
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Oxfam

Oxfam: United Kingdom

For Students 9th - 10th
Geography, history, environment, people and society in the United Kingdom, as well as the work that Oxfam is doing in the region are described here in the webpage of the international aid agency that fights poverty globally.
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Oxfam

Oxfam: Afghanistan

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource presents information about their efforts to rid Afghanistan of poverty and an overview of facts and history on the central Asian nation.
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Oxfam

Oxfam: Bosnia

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource presents an overview of aid efforts to combat poverty in Bosnia as well as general information on history, geography, people, society, the environment and more.
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Read Works

Read Works: Crisis in Africa

For Teachers 4th - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses the problems related to poverty, disease, and war in Africa. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition...
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Care: Virtual Field Trips Archive; Guatemala Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
Accompany a group of CARE youth ambassadors to Guatemala; learn about Guatemala, Mayan culture and CARE projects that this group was able to work on in the fight against poverty.
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British Library

British Library: Great Expectations: Discovering Literature Resources

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore resources related to Great Expectations that include videos and articles on themes such as class mobility, poverty, crime and punishment.[PDF]
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Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: Feeding the Hungry With Food Stamp Programs

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Food Stamp Program started in 1939 to assist those living below poverty levels. Set includes an overview, primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide.

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