Young Lives, Global Goals: Children, poverty and the MDGs (resource pack)

Submitted by crinadmin on Fri, 25/06/2010 - 06:35

Summary: Resource pack for teachers on children, poverty and the UN Millennium Development Goals.

This teaching pack explores what it means to be poor for children in four countries and at international efforts to eradicate poverty. Through activities, video clips and photocards pupils get an inside view on the lives of eight children from Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam.

Beginning from these children’s experiences, the pack examines the UN Millennium Development Goals - a set of targets drawn up by world leaders to reduce poverty, improve education and healthcare, and create a sustainable environment.

Young Lives, Global Goals enables teachers to bring the global dimension into the classroom via a framework for investigating place in key stage three geography, activities that integrate global citizenship with geography and environmental science, and real-life case studies.

The pack contains

- a 152-page activity pack
- a 40- minute video
- 16 photocards
- an A1 poster

pdf: http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/54_2391.htm

Organisation:

Young Lives

Attachment Link:

http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/54_2391.htm

Countries

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