Global Citizenship

UNICEF: Teaching Children’s Rights through Art
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This resource includes 35 art lessons and activities that explore children’s rights, particularly through the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Mediums range from drawing and photography to sculpting and mixed media collage.

CHF: Changing the World with Plants and Animals
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This lesson introduces students to the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and how Canadian organizations are working to achieve these goals.

World Vision: Money Matters
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This lesson explores how wages affect the way a family lives. In addition, students will learn about basic budgeting.

UNAC with Safe and Caring Schools: Developing A Sense of Worth in Oneself and Respecting the Similarities and Differences of Others
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This three part lesson focuses on respecting people who have different beliefs from oneself.

UNAC with Safe and Caring Schools: Respecting Others Through Cooperative Games
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This resource includes lessons about how to work together and respect differences.

CHF: Friendship Fun
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This resource introduces students to life in rural Northern Ghana. They will discover what homes look like and learn about the daily lives of children. They will also develop a better understanding of how far children and families must walk to access schools and hospitals.

CHF: What’s Right with this Picture?
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This activity focuses on positive aspects of the lives of people living in developing nations.

CHF: Music to Farm By!
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This lesson introduces students to farming in Ghana while singing songs and learning basic rhythms.

CHF: Grass for Grazing
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This resource explores the different uses of animals around the world.

CHF: Trees for Life
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This lesson aims to teach students how trees provide benefits to our lives and can meet daily needs.

CHF: Grains for Growth
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This lesson explores different countries through the use of a puppet show.

Development and Peace: Adbusting
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This lesson looks at how advertising is used to make money. Students are encouraged to use their critical skills to identify values and methods used to increase or maintain sales.

CHF: Whose Decision is it Anyway?
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This resource explores global connectedness through classroom and peer discussions, as well as a research project.

Keiskamma: Keiskamma Songbook: Aquarium
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This resource includes scores of music based around Keiskamma’s community habitat. Students will be encouraged to become aware of sounds in their local and global environments.

Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan: Understanding Human Rights in Afghanistan
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Using Afghanistan as a case study, students will examine how and why human rights need to be protected.