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BBC Climate Change: Bloom

May 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Bloom offers a collection of actions that individuals can take to reduce their contribution to climate change. It’s visually interesting, and features actions in categories like food, shopping, travel and water. The language is fairly accessible, although some of the action explanations are not as clear as they could be. This would […]

Lesson Plans from the International School Studies Association

May 1st, 2009 · No Comments

The International School Studies Association at the University of Denver has a large collection of links to lesson plans that deal with global issues. They break them down thematically (Cultural Studies, Environmental Studies, Economics, etc.) and by grade level. There are tons of lessons available here, so there are bound to be some […]

The Startling Effects of Going Vegetarian for Just One Day

April 8th, 2009 · No Comments

In The Startling Effects of Going Vegetarian for Just One Day, Kathy Freston gives a variety of interesting statistics on the consequences of all Americans not eating meat for just one day. Any serious discussion of climate change has to include diet, and this short article could be a great starting point.
Some highlights:
If everyone […]

Meal Plan: Resources for Teaching and Learning about Food

April 2nd, 2009 · 3 Comments

Yes Magazine has a collection of articles on food that would be great to use with students. Some might need to be adapted, but the topics are good and there is a nice variety. One deals with bringing fresh, healthy food to an urban environment, another with 8 ways to join the local […]

The Best “Cause-Related” Online Learning Games

March 26th, 2009 · No Comments

Larry Ferlazzo recently posted a brief summary of a variety of cause-related online games. I’ve posted about free rice and free poverty before, but a bunch of the other ones are new to me. I’m not sure how reliable the claims of charitable donations from the various sites are, but they are worth […]

Peace Corps Challenge Online Game

March 12th, 2009 · No Comments

I just came across a Flash-based game that simulates what it’s like to be a Peace Corps volunteer. I haven’t played it a great deal, but it seems like a decent game for language learners. You start out in a village, trying to solve a problem with their water supply. The bulk […]

A Global Issues-Themed Poetry Activity

January 30th, 2009 · No Comments

We’ve got a group of 50 or so Korean elementary school teachers here at the ELI for a month-long program. Today, I gave them a brief workshop introducing a poetry activity that I have used in the past. Basically, I have students read, write, then discuss poems built around particular structures. I […]

World Sim

January 20th, 2009 · No Comments

I just read a great article on a very interesting activity that a college anthropology professor does with a few hundred students in a lecture class.
He breaks them into groups of about 20, and assigns each group a culture. They spend a few weeks preparing, and the class culminates in the World Sim activity […]

Some Eco-Themed Videogames

January 7th, 2009 · No Comments

Low Impact Living just profiled several environmentally-themed video games, some of which look like they would be good to use with language learners.
In Climate Challenge, the player is president of the European Union, and the goal is to balance green policy with keeping the populace happy.
Ayiti: The Cost of Life gives students the chance to […]

Global Issues — Week 1

September 20th, 2008 · No Comments

For now, instead of doing podcasts, I’m going to type up reflections of my current teaching and make materials available via the blog. It’s faster than making podcasts, and probably just as useful/useless. Plus, I can do it from work.
Week 1: Materials Used

syllabus
icebreaker
general global issues discussion / freewrite activity
vocabulary journal
label reading […]

ESL etc.

Global Issues and Activism in English Language Teaching