Features
Global Education: Reflections from the Field by Graham Pike
Despite differences in approach and underlying values,
global educators in North America are opening classroom
windows onto the interconnections that make us all global
citizens.
Teaching and Learning about Interconnectedness by Graham Pike, David Selby
5 activities to help students think in a relational mode.
Multicultural Environmental Education by Kevin Peter
Turning a misunderstood concept into a tool for
environmental and social change.
Ten Guidelines for Dialogues about Intercultural
Issues
by Mathew Zachariah
Some starting points
Where Do You Stand? by Alanda Greene
An activity that encourages open-mindedness and
demonstrates the wide range of views on any controversial
topic
Population Pressure! by Marci Mowery, Lindsay Aun
Unrestrained growth in human population and resource
consumption poses a threat to wildlife and ecosystems
around the world.
Teaching with the Seasons
by Larry Weber
Nature's daily and seasonal drama provides the textbook
for this grade seven natural science course based on
phenology.
Theme Days: A cause for celebration by Sara Coumantarakis
As an antidote to commercial holidays, theme days shift
the emphasis away from consumerism, towards
relationships, environment and global citizenship.
North American Global Education Organizations by Green Teacher
Turning a misunderstood concept into a tool for
environmental and social change.
Planet Earth
Pages: Rights and Responsibilities (available online) by Kitty Cochrane
Activities that focus on the rights outlined in the UN
Declaration of Rights of the Child. These rigts help
students to connect in a personal way with issues
affecting people around the world.
Inside the
Internet: Surfing El Niño by Richard Kool
And as
always, over 20 new educational resources are profiled and
evaluated in this issue of Green Teacher.
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