Additional+Resources+from+2013-14+School+Year

Intro to the United Nations :
Start off with this lesson on the day before Rebecca comes out to facilitate the Nuclear Pollution mini-simulation. We have given you resources and suggestions to choose from including student worksheets on the UN and human rights. Don't feel like you have to do it all; we are merely offering choices. Feel free to be creative!

One of our suggestions was to use Wordle to capture student's prior knowledge of the UN in the beginning of the lesson and/or at the end to use as a visual assessment; this could be shared on the wiki if you would like to!

Nuclear Pollution:
Nuclear pollution is going to be our launching off-point to introduce students to parliamentary procedure, in lieu of the "silly sim" that we did last year. We will bring everything you need for the mini-simulation; this lesson will be **2 days total**. The first day will be for discussion and debate and the second day will cover draft resolutions and voting procedure.

All you have to do is assign the countries to the students (two students per country, please NO TRIPLE delegations, singles are preferable) the day before IF you want them to read the optional country research. Please schedule when you would like to do this lesson with us; it does NOT have to happen at any particular time and in fact, we will need to stagger our visits between the five schools, so let us know asap!

Curriculum Map and Lesson Plans: Food Security
The above link will take you to the Food Security curriculum map and link you to the Lesson Materials page where you can download documents for daily lessons and access video links.We have tried to build in optional lessons to give flexibility to classes that might need more time writing position papers, etc. The unit will begin later in the fall timing TBD, probably similar to last year.

Clean Water















Ancient Rome
Finally, we wanted to stretch ourselves by creating an ancient Rome simulation that can be completed in the Spring and were fortunate enough to have an ancient history buff as an intern this summer who created a simulation from scratch on the Third Punic War. It is a work in progress and we welcome feedback/ideas for how to make it work best for you.

Check out the student data that we collected from Salemwood, Beebe, Ferryway and Linden last year following the Clean Water unit:

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