Grades: 6-8
Chips of Trade
Acting as countries in a simulation game, students discuss how resources are inequitably distributed throughout the world and how this imbalance motivates trade.
Grades: 9-12
Hill of Beans
Students compare wealth of the average person in the world to that of a person living in the U.S. and a person living in the Central African Republic, one of the poorest nations in the world.
Grades: 6-8
Like Oil and Water
Students use the engineering design process to create and test prototypes for cleaning up oil spills.
Grades: 9-12
Lighting Up Lives
By taking on the role of a community member, students analyze how energy poverty impacts people living in Monrovia, Liberia and create an action plan for a sustainable solution.
Grades: 6-8
In The News: Research for Tomorrow
Through planning, writing, and performing a news telecast, students use information from current events articles to create fact-based predictions about what their futures might look like.
Grades: 9-12
Bye, Bye, Birdie
Students determine a list of criteria to use when deciding the fate of endangered species, then conduct research on a specific species and create a presentation justifying its protection.
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