These pages give you access to all of Oxfam's free online teaching resources. Packed with lesson plans, assemblies, case studies, and whiteboard resources, these pages offer free materials you can use and download now. Tabs are presented below to find resources by age range, resource type, topic, curriculum area or country.
Oxfam works to empower young people to be active Global Citizens. They promote education that helps young people understand the global issues that affect their lives and take action towards a more just and sustainable world.
Their teams in England, Scotland and Wales support teachers through our range of on-line resources, teacher training and professional development, and partnership work with a range of other organizations.
In this site you can find a lot of activities to do with students about "Environment", for instance; vocabulary related to environment, lesson plans, video segment with different activities; listening; projects.
You can also find activities to do for the earth day.
This website gives you a lot of activities for your class: Vocabulary, interactive activities.
Teaching our student to care about earth and using English I guess is a good idea.
Hi Maria. Larry Ferlazzo is great for generating high quality lists of links. I'd love to hear which of the critical thinking links you end of finding interesting and useful! Thanks! M.
This website provides extensive resources on the topic of a living wage. There is a wealth of information contained on the site, which provides comprehensive coverage of many issues surrounding the idea of a living wage and its impact on workers, communities, and businesses.One particularly interesting article discusses the impact of Walmart, not only on workers, but also on shoppers. I think the information on this site can be used in the discussion of how to balance the issue of how big retailers can contribute to communities by providing jobs and affordable goods while at the same time providing a living wage as opposed to simply low paying jobs that provide little or no benefits.
Jerry, this topic is a HOT one right now with the economy not only producing few jobs, but with people working 40 hours a week and being nowhere near meeting their financial obligations. Nice choice! M.
I've always been a supporter of Walmart - one of the few I think! If it wasn't for Walmart I'm not sure I'd be able to get by. The interesting thing though is that after reading one of the articles at the UC Berkeley labor center website, I realized that Walmart could pay more to its workers if they chose to and the impact on their profits, as well as the price increases passed along to consumers, would be minimal. The article discusses what would happen if Walmart was required to pay its workers $12 an hour and concluded even if Wamart were to pass on the entire wage increase to consumers, the increased price cost to the average shopper would only be about $12.49 a year. If Walmart offered a minimum wage of $12 an hour I can't help but believe there would be less resistance to them opening new stores in hard hit economic communities.
Conversation Question on Human Rights
critically examine a topic to develop their own higher order questions.
Sample objectives include:
After completing a question and answer activity, students will:
develop attention to detail and critical analysis by formulating higher order questions concerning a given conceptsynthesize information in order to determine missing information or information deserving clarificationas determined by successfully attending to 80% of the requirements.
Prerequisites:
None other than adequate Web access.Materials and Resources:
What needs to be prepared in advance by the teacher? Usually, the questions will center around a topic that the instructor or a guest presents. The topic may be presented through readings or a lecture prepared by the instructor or guest.
What does the student need to bring to the lesson? Students need to view any prerequisite materials.
A web site with plenty of resources for teaching English to kids. Ready made worksheets, games, reading, activities, and so on.
Children learn English by playing and in an very interactive way. The games are great fun!!!
Yrma Garcia
Hi there!
It has taken too long to manage this tool. But never mind. I am very optimistic and work harder each time.
This web site must be a good device for teachers who work with kids. Though you must ensure that the computers in your classroom or lab meet the requirements since the software of this web site is very trendy, I think. Enjoy it!!!
Hi there!
It has taken too long to manage this tool. But never mind. I am very optimistic and work harder each time.
This web site must be a good device for teachers who work with kids. Though you must ensure that the computers in your classroom or lab meet the requirements since the software of this web site is very trendy, I think. Enjoy it!!!
Yrma Garcia
I came across Advocates for Youth in college while working with a sub-group of the Bus Project. It has proven to be an invaluable resource when helping students research current events. They are able to learn about the issues and see what their peers are doing about them.
I am very interested in adopted and foster children. I believe every child has the human right to a safe and healthy home environment. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. This is a great website I found that helps teachers navigate with this sensitive human rights issue. It's a great resource for not only understanding how to approach adopted students, but also how to teach other children about the lives of those whom live with guardians that are not their parents.
Hellow Kizak,
That video made me go back to my childhood when I had to pump water from a well for all the needs, even for cooking. We had to go to the river to do our loundry, carrying big loads of dump clothes. The situation the Niger people is living, almost all Latinamerican countries are. So as we could see the world population is growing but the natural resources as water are dicreasing.
This site promotes training for teachers in the field of human rights. There is a Lesson Plan related to Identity, which I think is key to starting a process of social inclusion. Eventhough I don't teach children, this lesson could be adapted for adults.
Total Instructional Alignment is a must-have resource for any educator
envisioning ever higher levels of student success. This guide for teachers and administrators.
Resources for teachers and students with a variety of free learning and teaching
materials, all categorized for access by skill and level.
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