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Mary van der Heijden

Student Interactives - ReadWriteThink - 1 views

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    Great blog, k-12
Keri-Lee Beasley

Wix.com advent created by ktenkely based on Kindergarten - 2 views

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    A neat advent calendar of Web2.0 tools - very cleverly done, and beautiful images. A super idea for a blog.
Katie Day

International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures (2010) - 0 views

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    "The UN General Assembly has proclaimed 2010 the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures and has designated UNESCO to play a leading role in the celebration of the Year - capitalizing on the Organization's invaluable experience of over 60 years to advance "the mutual knowledge and understanding of peoples".\n\n
Katie Day

United Nations International Year of Youth (IYY) August 2010-2011 - 0 views

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    Welcome to the official website on the International Year of Youth. Here you will find information on events planned throughout the year, as well as suggestions on how to get involved and participate. On 18 December 2009, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution A/RES/64/134 proclaiming the year commencing on 12 August 2010 as the International Year of Youth: Dialogue and Mutual Understanding. The Year will coincide with the 25th anniversary of the first International Youth Year in 1985 on the theme Participation, Development and Peace. The resolution A/RES/64/134 is available in all United Nations Official Languages: English | Français | Español | Русский | عربي | 汉语
Katie Day

Welcome - 0 views

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    The United Nations declared 2010 to be the International Year of Biodiversity. It is a celebration of life on earth and of the value of biodiversity for our lives. The world is invited to take action in 2010 to safeguard the variety of life on earth: biodiversity
Katie Day

Quizzes and Games - UN Cyberschoolbus - 0 views

shared by Katie Day on 30 Nov 10 - Cached
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    Games for kids to play... Flag Tag, The Health Game, Free Rice and Free Flour, The Urban Fact Game, Water Quiz
Katie Day

FT.com / Global Economy - World's hungry 'close to one billion' - 0 views

  • The Rome-based organisation said that a preliminary estimate showed the number of undernourished people rose this year by 40m to about 963m people, after rising 75m in 2007. Before the food crisis, there were about 848m chronically hungry people in 2003-05.
  • Prices of agricultural commodities such as wheat, corn and rice jumped to record levels earlier this year, triggering food riots in countries ranging from Haiti to Egypt to Bangladesh and prompting appeals for food aid for more than 30 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.Although food commodity prices have fallen about 50 per cent from this summer’s all-time highs, they remain well above pre-crisis levels. The cost of rice, for example, has halved since July, but it still trades at prices that are 95 per cent above 2005 levels.
  • The vast majority of the world’s undernourished people – more than 90m – live in developing countries, according to FAO estimates. Of these, 65 per cent live in only seven countries: India, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan and Ethiopia. In sub-Saharan Africa, one in three people – or almost 240m – are chronically hungry, the highest proportion of undernourished people in the total population.
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    The food crisis has pushed the number of hungry people in the world to almost 1bn, in what the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation described on Tuesday as a "serious setback" to global efforts to reduce mass starvation.
Katie Day

Food Experts Worry as World Population and Hunger Grow - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Scientists and development experts across the globe are racing to increase food production by 50 percent over the next two decades to feed the world’s growing population, yet many doubt their chances despite a broad consensus that enough land, water and expertise exist.
  • The number of hungry people in the world rose to 1.02 billion this year, or nearly one in seven people, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, despite a 12-year concentrated effort to cut the number.
  • Agronomists and development experts who gathered in Rome last week generally agreed that the resources and technical knowledge were available to increase food production by 50 percent in 2030 and by 70 percent in 2050 — the amounts needed to feed a population expected to grow to 9.1 billion in 40 years.
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    Oct 21, 2009
Katie Day

Food Security: More than one billion go hungry | Sympatico.ca News | Nov 18, 2009 - 0 views

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    Interactive graphic on hunger in the world -- as 60 heads of state attend the United Nations World Summit on Food Security in Rome.
Katie Day

Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before - 0 views

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    "Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.There are now nearly 700 maps"  This link goes to a map showing UNDERWEIGHT CHILDREN -- though you can switch to other statistics
Katie Day

The Miniature Earth ::: What if the world's population were reduced to 100 people commu... - 0 views

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    a website with a YouTube video of haunting music and photographs...
Katie Day

Freerice.com - 0 views

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    Besides the basic "Free Rice" -- where students practice vocabulary and earn rice for the World Food Programme -- they can also choose from subjects:  Art, English, Chemistry, Geography, Language Learning, and Math
Katie Day

Kids Around the World | Home - 0 views

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    "Welcome to Kids Around the World! This site will introduce your students to the lives, customs, and cultures of children in countries throughout the developing world. There are a lot of ways you can use Kids Around the World in the classroom! Explore the site yourself to get an idea of how you want to use it in your curriculum. The lesson plans provided are excellent tools to get you started. They include activities for Grades K"
Katie Day

Welcome to the United Nations - 0 views

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    The United Nations hompage
Katie Day

Every Child Matters: a blog on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC - 0 views

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    Started by Alyssa Fraser in Colorado -- she's looking for collaboration with some of our students
Katie Day

YouTube - If the World Were a Village: A Story About the World's People - 0 views

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    Excerpt from the video (which you can buy)
Katie Day

Bin's World: If the world were a village of 100 people - 1 views

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    An interactive version of "If the world were a village...."
Katie Day

Games for Change (G4C) -- PUBLIC HEALTH - 1 views

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    A list of games related to: "The state of health of a whole society, and the policies and actions of government to maintain or improve overall well-being."
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