Students will learn about the similarities and differences of birthday celebrations around the world. This lesson was developed by Tracey Dix as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

Students will review what they learned about birthday traditions and celebrations around the world. They will apply what they learned to their writings and share what they learned with their classmates. This lesson was developed by Tracey Dix as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

Students will learn about birthday celebrations in the Netherlands. Students will have the opportunity to play a traditional Dutch birthday game. This lesson was developed by Tracey Dix as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

Students will research education around the globe. Students will collaborate to identify global and local educational issues. Students will conduct a service project to address a local education issue. This lesson was developed by Julie Johnson as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.            

Students will study nutrition as a global and local need. Students will learn the causes of malnutrition and participate in a food drive. This lesson was developed by Julie Johnson as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.            

Students will learn about the importance of water and the problems surrounding water globally and locally. Students will compare usability of fresh water and salt water. Students will research and promote water conservation. This lesson was developed by Julie Johnson as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.            

Students will be given a website to research and answer questions about how real estate and commission work. Students will be given actual real estate listings from across the world and asked to solve for how much commission they would earn by selling real estate in different countries, given the respective commission rates. This lesson was developed by Sarah Sykes as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

Students will solve for the percent change in population for a countries across specific decades. Students will then research what happened in the country between specific decades that may have contributed to a drastic change. This lesson was developed by Sarah Sykes as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

Students will be given interest rates for some countries around the world, and they will be asked to solve interest questions involving those respective rates. Students will then use research material to investigate what interest rates do for a community, how interest rates differ around the world, and how interest rates affect communities around the world. This lesson was developed by Sarah Sykes as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

Students will build of off the previous lesson by analyze the percent change of minimum wages between 1990 and 2016. After students have calculated the percent change, the students will do some research to determine what sort of events could have caused the drastic change in the minimum wage. This lesson was developed by Sarah Sykes as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

Students will estimate the minimum wages in countries around the world. Once being told by the teacher what the minimum wage actually is, the students will calculate their own percent error for each country. This lesson was developed by Sarah Sykes as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

Students will learn how climate change poses risks to human health. Students will realize we need to safeguard our communities by protecting people’s health and quality of life from climate change impacts. Students will apply what they have learned and discuss in groups how the U.S. could apply their research and support toward third world countries. The standards tagged are for the entire series of lessons as a whole. This lesson was developed by Marty Ervin as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

Students will learn how climate change poses risks to human health. Students will realize we need to safeguard our communities by protecting people’s health and quality of life from climate change impacts. The standards tagged are for the entire series of lessons as a whole. This lesson was developed by Marty Ervin as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

Students will understand how climate change can affect human health and how some populations will be especially affected. Students will investigate different countries of the world and how these countries contribute to air pollution and global warming. The standards tagged are for the entire series of lessons as a whole. This lesson was developed by Marty Ervin as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

Students will consider multiple perspectives of other cultures and countries. They will realize that global warming may not be a priority in countries where the basic population is struggling to maintain an existence. Students will understand how difficult it is to insure all countries of the world reduce their contribution to global warming and follow the lead of the United States. Students will create a proposed action plan for how they will act and educate others on the impact on human health of global warming. Students will apply their knowledge and discoveries from this unit to propose how they teach others about the importance of reducing their own carbon footprint. The standards tagged are for the entire series of lessons as a whole. This lesson was developed by Marty Ervin as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

Students will consider multiple perspectives of other cultures and countries. They will realize that global warming may not be a priority in countries where the basic population is struggling to maintain an existence. Students will understand how difficult it is to insure all countries of the world reduce their contribution to global warming and follow the lead of the United States. Students will create a proposed action plan for how they will act and educate others on the impact on human health of global warming. Students will apply their knowledge and discoveries from this unit to propose how they teach others about the importance of reducing their own carbon footprint. The standards tagged are for the entire series of lessons as a whole. This lesson was developed by Marty Ervin as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

Lesson plan for GEDB Tchr Capstone: Golden Rice & Biotechnology Day 2- "Golden Rice Introduction." This lesson was developed by Amy Foss as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

Lesson plan for GEDB Tchr Capstone: Golden Rice & Biotechnology Day 3- Media Perception of Golden Rice. This lesson has a video component in showing an episode of the TV show "Leverage". In the event this isn't available to show, the teacher should move onto the research report component of the lesson. This lesson was developed by Amy Foss as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

Lesson plan for GEDB Tchr Capstone: Golden Rice & Biotechnology Days 4 & 5- "PSA Creation." This lesson was developed by Amy Foss as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

Day 1 for unit plan GEDB Tchr Capstone: Golden Rice & Biotechnology "What is a GMO?" This lesson was developed by Amy Foss as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.