Global Citizenship: Classroom Activities

Activities to bring Global Citizenship into your school

Elementary, Middle

Description

The resource addresses broad topics in order for students to begin to develop responsible attitudes that will enhance their understanding of global citizenship. The activities fit into many curricular areas with a progression through age levels for elementary aged students. Some of the activities the students will be involved in are as follows:

  • Creating classroom rules based on what is fair and unfair; right or wrong.
  • Students will begin to investigate their own relationships with others and appreciate that their actions have consequences. In response to the book Aldo, students will brainstorm words to describe friends.
  • Students will gain an appreciation of what local means by viewing a photograph of their community and discussing what happens in that locale, who lives nearby, etc.
  • Building on their understanding of one's local environment students will then view photographs of places that are different than their own. Students will discuss and note the similarities between their place and places far away.
  • After engaging in activities that teach students to appreciate diversity, students will gain knowledge and understanding of living things by growing and caring for plants in their school yard and the municipality.
  • The teacher will present the students with a variety of fruit and vegetables, including local produce and some grown in far off places.
  • Students will be invited to come up with definitions for "rich" and "poor". The students will be challenged to focus not just on money and material wealth but all aspects of rich and poor.

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