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Students analyze cholera mapping, identify community health concerns, and create plans for their own publicity campaigns informing community members of current community health concerns.
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Students analyze how an author structures articles in different ways to report on malnutrition. The articles come from the project “1,000 Days: To save women, children and the world” by Roger Thurow.
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Obama’s Plan to Feed the World’s Poorest
Students will evaluate President Obama’s Food Plan and discuss/debate whether the initiative will be effective or not.
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Environmental Health: What is it?
This lesson draws from a range of projects on food waste, ocean health, global goods and extractives, food insecurity, water and sanitation and more to support student understanding around...
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Proposing a Win for Women Worldwide
Students will integrate information from multiple news sources in order to explore gender inequality issues around the world.
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Stopgap Health Care in the Developing World
Students will learn about the state of health care in developing nations, and to draw conclusions about effective health care from their successes and failures.
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U.S.-Cuba Relations
This lesson uses reporting by Tracey Eaton and Rachel Southmayd to support student understanding around the state of relations between the US and Cuba.
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Students will develop a proposal for the Punjab and Kashmir governments in India to help prevent and eventually eliminate the heroin epidemic.
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What is it like to be a refugee and how can we help spread the word about the problems refugees face?
Questions for "World Refugee Day: Waking Up the International Community" Answer while you read: When is World Refugee Day? How many people have been displaced from their homes in the past year? Which...