TEACHERS’ RESOURCES for WORLD ISSUES

Assembled by Oxfam Canada's Ottawa volunteers, January/2004, with an emphasis on ready-to-use lesson plans and activities.

(a) Central Addresses for Educational Material:

http://www.oxfam.ca/education/- Oxfam Canada's central page for downloadable teaching resources
http://www.global-ed.org- Global Education Network, an Ottawa-based site organizing links to teacher resources across the country
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/index.htm- Oxfam UK's central page for downloadable teaching resources
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OxfamEducation/ - a listserver for discussions and downloading international development materials for Canadian educational institutions (requires joining YahooGroups, free, to access the listserver)
http://www.osearth.com/teachers/index.shtml - lots of lessons, games and activities related to understanding global dynamics and issues.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/archive.html- an amazing archive of lesson plans for Grades 6-12 put together by the New York Times. Go to this page and type in keywords (such as ‘Human Rights’) and from there you can download complete lesson plans.
http://www.citizens4change.org - Global Citizens for Change. Click 'global education' link for activity-based, experiential lesson plans that can be used with students and adults

http://www.worldvision.ca/ - World Vision Canada has an "Educational Resources" catalogue of video, online and print resources to help Canadians understand and act on current global issues.

(b) Miscellaneous

Economics for All – A Grade 8 Teacher’s Kit: www.oxfam.ca/education/downloads/Economics_for_All.pdf
Globe in a Box – tool for primary education: download at http://www.oxfam.ca/education/downloads/GlobeinaBox.pdf

(c) Fair Trade / Globalization Issues

Make Trade Fair - click the Act Now link for online and printed resources: www.maketradefair.com/

Fair Trade Coffee – Facilitator’s Guide for Workshop: www.oxfam.ca/campaigns/downloads/coffeekit.pdf

Imports are Important - activity to increase awareness of where goods are made: http://www.osearth.com/teachers/imports.shtml

Fair trade in the classroom - general ideas for teaching about fair trade: http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/resources1.htm

Lesson plans about sweatshop labour for Grades 9, 10 and 12: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OxfamEducation/files/ - filenames: Grade9.doc, Grade10.doc, OACGeo.doc & OACPol.doc (Grade 12)

The Clothes Line Activities - series of activities for teaching, some about fair trade generally, and some specifically about India and cotton production: http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/teachers/clothesline/index.htm

(d) Food / Hunger Issues

Oxfam Hunger Banquet Planning Kit – school activity, all ages: http://www.oxfamamerica.org/art1079.html

Putting Food on the Global Table – information and activity booklet – include games like
“A World in Jeopardy”: at www.oxfam.ca/education/downloads/wfd-3.pdf

Are You Hungry For Change – Organizer’s guide to running a fast: www.oxfam.ca/education/downloads/Hungry_for_Change.pdf

Making A Meal of It – Activities for 11-13 years olds: http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/teachers/makemeal/

(e) Human Rights Issues

Racism - No Way is an Australian site with many lesson plans. Find them at http://racismnoway.com.au/classroom/ . Two popular activities are "I am you, are, we are" (a.k.a. the Potato game, at http://racismnoway.com.au/classroom/lesson_ideas/20001010_20.html) and Prejudice (a.k.a. Nipper, at http://racismnoway.com.au/classroom/lesson_ideas/20010317_33.html).
Ok, Not Ok? Human Rights and Wrongs - general introduction activity for human rights issues: at http://www.osearth.com/teachers/ok.shtml

Developing Rights activities - series of activities for teaching about human rights and social justice:http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/teachers/resources/rights.htm

(f) Education Issues

Basic Education Kit - activities for teaching Grades 5-8 about education issues: http://www.caa.org.au/campaigns/education/kit/

(g) Disaster Relief Issues

Dealing with Disasters - series of activities dealing with these issues: http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/teachers/disaster/index.htm

These resources have been assembled by the Ottawa Local Committee of Oxfam Canada. We would appreciate your feedback, particularly additional resource addresses we can add to this list. You can reach us at ottawavolunteers@oxfam.ca.