What is it?

©sjc 2008 This Educational Tool Kit is designed to help students develop the skills, knowledge, and values necessary to become responsible citizens in an interdependent world. It includes two secondary-level teaching modules.

The Poverty and Basic Human Needs Module explores the themes of nutrition, hunger and food security, health and HIV/AIDS, the environment and water.

The Globalization and Trade Module explores the themes of globalization, trade and multinational corporations.

Each module contains learning units that use a project-based approach, loads of interactive activities, fact sheets, handouts and resources on global themes:

Learning Activities

Interactive learning activities encourage discussion, reflection and learning based on students' personal experiences. Teachers can follow the activities in the suggested order. Or, adapt the activities for a specific classroom situation. Click here to see the icons that let you know what kind of learning activity your are exploring.

Fact Sheets

Information backgrounders on the subject covered in a given unit. Teachers can use the fact sheets to help guide class discussions.

Handouts

Documents that relate to a specific learning activity in a unit (eg. a game, a quiz, etc.). There are handouts for teachers (eg. answer sheet) and students (game sheet).

Team Project

Each module uses a project-based approach.

• The Poverty & Basic Human Needs Module features the Learning Tree Storyboard Project. In teams, students complete four Learning Tree Storyboards that are collected in a scrapbook and presented to the class at the end of the module.

• The Globalization and Trade Module features the Magazine Radio Show Project. In teams, students develop a 13-minute magazine format radio program that is presented to the class live at the end of the module.

Curriculum Connections

The teaching modules help develop all four categories of cross-curricular competencies promoted by the Quebec Education Program: intellectual, communication-related, personal and social, methodological. At the same time, modules target the subject-specific competencies of understanding, interpreting and building a global consciousness related to geography/history and citizenship issues.