Students will be asked to evaluate their local community and design and build a 3-dimensional circular space, building, or facility to meet their town's / city's / state's needs. Requirements: two written paragraphs, blueprints drafted on graph paper, a physical model, a Project Improvement Plan, and self reflection. 

While using this object, students are introduced to new information about Costa Rica.  It is reinforced with short facts and questions, and reviewed to strengthen their new knowledge of the concept.  Students can access Kahoot from a computer or mobile device.  As the teacher displays questions on the screen, students answer from their devices, and are given instant feedback.  Percentages of each answer chosen are then displayed on the screen.  As a bonus, students can later play in "Ghost Mode" to review the material and beat their score. 

The object addresses the following world language standards:
 

2.1.M.G.a Recognize important features of country(s) where language is spoken

2.1.M.G.c Identify major geographic features (rivers, mountains, deserts, forests)

In this lesson, students will choose an article about a global human rights issue to read, learn more about and then reflect on. The lesson will allow students to take to heart the NCDPI Global Education goals of investigating the world, recognizing the perspectives of others in different parts of the world and communicating ideas through their reflection. Note: This lesson was created in accordance with the 7th Grade Social Studies Essential Standards and the VIF/Participate Global Competence Indicators for Grade 7. For more information about VIF/Participate and these indicators, please visit https://www.participate.com/. This lesson was developed by Lindsey Gallagher 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.            

In this short video and accompanying activity and readings, students learn about navigating the Lumber River and the people who navigated it for hundreds of years.

The area known as Latin America is made up of the region south of the United States, beginning at the river that separates the U.S. from Mexico, the Rio Grande’, and extending to the southern tip of South America, an area known as Cape Horn.

In the first six chapters of this book you studied a theme of geography and how it related to the region under study. In the last two chapters of this book you studied multiple themes and how they related to the regions. In this final chapter of the book you will put all five themes into practice by studying the most populous of the continents - Asia. More specifically, you will study the themes in practice in East Asia, which includes large countries in terms of land mass and population such as China and Mongolia, as well as smaller nations such as North and South Korea and Japan.

The students will view the video about fair trade from other countries. The students will learn what is fair trade and how individuals in other countries benefit from fair trade.