Alive at Five: the Silent Global Crisis of Child Deaths
Grades: 7 to 10
Price: Free

This multimedia, multi-literacy resource for grades 7 to 10 encourages students to think critically about why 8.8 million children die each year before reaching their fifth birthday. The resource includes five stand-alone learning modules addressing media, technology, visual, oral, written and numeracy skills. Use this resource to meet curriculum outcomes in social studies, language arts, media studies, communications technology, mathematics, arts, health and science.

A Hungry World—Understanding the Global Food Crisis
Grades: 9 to 12
Price: Free

A Hungry World provides background information, statistics, case studies, classroom activities and action ideas for teaching about global food insecurity. In this resource students explore the many causes and impacts of the food crisis, such as rising fuel prices, ethanol and meat production and commodities markets—while considering the complex ways in which causes and impacts are interrelated. Students examine their own food consumption, read case studies about affected children and families and consider the difficult choices families are sometimes forced to make when their food supply diminishes.

Food Fight: A Youth Action Guide on Hunger
Grades: 9 to 12
Price: Free

Expand student learning on the global food crisis with Food Fight: A Youth Action Guide on Hunger. This peer-to-peer manual facilitates discussion, fun activities and actions students can take on issues in food insecurity.

Emergency Response

This resource explores the causes and effects of disasters and complex humanitarian emergencies. It looks at humanitarian relief operations and World Vision's response model and provides a case study of the international response to the Asian tsunami.

Transforming Lives
DVD with study guide (also available in VHS format)
Grades: 9 to 12
Price: $19.99 (school price), $129.99 (school board price)

This 17-minute video explains international development by telling the story of community development in the Samuye region of Tanzania. Transforming Lives is a hopeful story of community empowerment and change, told by the people who are making it happen—the Tanzanians themselves. Click here to download free lessons for senior geography and civics courses. Click here to download the study guide. (also available in French)

Current Issues in Global Population
Reference materials and lesson plans
Grades: 7 to 9
Price: Free

This unit introduces population issues including growth, demographics, urbanization, and environmental stress to intermediate level students.

Part One
An introduction to population issues, with classroom-ready handouts and teacher notes.

Part Two
Ideas for organizing a student conference on world population issues, including assessment tools.