Module 1: Poverty & Basic Human Needs
Module 1: Poverty & Basic Human Needs
The Poverty and Basic Human Needs Module explores the themes of Nutrition, Hunger and Food Security, Health & HIV/AIDS, the Environment & Water.
Three key questions guide the teacher in this module:
• What are the similarities/differences related to each theme, in Canada versus the rest of the world?
• For each theme, how does Canada get involved through development cooperation projects?
• What are some development alternatives/or what can be done locally?
1. Compare ways of living between Canadian citizens and people in developing countries.
2. Define the differences related to the basic human needs themes of food, health, education, work, housing, and environment.
3. Demonstrate that students are global citizens with connections to youth around the world who all share rights and responsibilities.
4. Engage in cooperative learning by working as a team to build project and then to share.
Go to one of these units in this module:
- Unit 1: Introduction to Poverty & Basic Human Needs
- Unit 2: Poverty, Hunger & Food Security (Nutrition)
- Unit 3: Poverty, Health & HIV/AIDS
- Unit 4: Poverty, the Environment & Water
- Unit 5: Poverty & Basic Education* (new)
- Unit 6: Poverty & Basic Human Needs Module Wrap-Up
Development is about expanding the choices people have to lead lives that they value.
UNDP
Fast Fact: Poverty
Half the world - nearly three billion people - lives on less than two dollars a day.
Team Project: Learning Tree Storyboard
The goal is to produce four Learning Tree Storyboards to be collected in a scrapbook and presented to the class at the end of the module.
