Posts for ‘Global Awareness’ 
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Student Teaching Resumes
The students will be back in action this week as we present the environmental impacts of the internal combustion engine, railroads, coal mining, and iron and steel mills. By also focusing on the 5 W’s and an H behind the advent of each topic, we’ll broaden our knowledge of the industrial revolution and its impacts [...]
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Environmental Impacts of the Industrial Revolution
We’ll continue our student-teachers project covering the industrial revolution this week by shifting our focus to 4 new aspects; railroads, the internal combustion engine, iron and steel mills, and coal mining. After taking a look at the 5 W’s and an H behind each category, the students will then examine the environmental impacts of each [...]
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Economic Lessons
In our quest to learn more about the economic, environmental, and social impacts of the industrial revolution, we began our student/teacher lessons today. We learned from separate groups of students who taught us the 5 W’s and an H about the steam engine, assembly lines, and urban migration followed by a look at their economic [...]
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A Look at the Industrial Revolution Through the Sustainability Lens
We’ll start examining the Industrial Revolution through the lens of sustainability this week. We’ll get started with a look at the who, what, when, where, why, and how of it all and then focus on the economic aspects. We’ll split into groups of 4, with each taking on a different economic aspect of the industrial [...]
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One for Real and one for Fun.
We took a test to wrap-up our deforestation for palm oil plantations unit on Wednesday. On Thursday, we’ll play a round of Global Trivia for House points in what will be our last meeting before mid-term break. When we return in April we’ll begin a unit on the industrial revolution, which went a long way [...]
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Systems Thinking
We’re taking a closer look at systems in Grade 8 Global Awareness. Specifically, we’re using the palm oil industry as a case study and identifying the different social actors involved. We then examined their different world views when it comes to deforestation for palm oil plantations and identified the leverage points they have to manipulate [...]
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Final Versions of Palm Oil Letters
We’ll put the final edits on our letters to Bintang and Delta Dewata aimed at persuading them to stop stocking their shelves with products that use unsustainable palm oil. Onec we have our final versions, we’ll turn them over to Bahasa class where they’ll be translated and prepared for hand-delivery to the managers at the [...]
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A Special Guest
How many of us know much about Slovenia? We’ll give you one cool fact – Slovenia is considered to have the 3rd best track record in Europe when it comes to environmental stewardship. We will welcome Kathleen, a teacher form Slovenia, to our class Tuesday for a special lesson on geographical facts and environmental initiatives [...]
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Spread the Word About Palm Oil
We’ll be working on spreading the word about the mass destruction of forests to make room for palm oil plantations in Indonesia. From making posters alerting consumers to products that buy palm oil from plantations using unsustainable practices to writing letters and creating ad campaigns to urge companies to only buy palm oil from plantations [...]
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Greasy Palms
Rebecca Sweetman from The Paradigm Shift Project will visit us to screen her film “Greasy Palms”. We’ll be using this film as the basis for a unit about deforestation in Indonesia to clear land for Palm Oil plantations. The Paradigm Shift Project creates documentary films which raise awareness about sustainability issues and develop curriculum to [...]
