This resource provides information on the American Red Cross and its efforts to work collaboratively with other organizations.

This resource provides information on the American Red Cross and its efforts to work collaboratively with other organizations.

In this lesson, students learn about civil war in Syria and debate what the role of the United States and its allies should be.

This exhibition explores what it has meant to be a citizen throughout a millennium of British history. Click through to find full documents from each time period, as well as a quiz page.

This lesson features the infographic about Connecting Syria's Allies and enemies by Al Jazeera to help students understand the complex relationships between the countries who either support or do not support military intervention in Syria as a response to the use of chemical weapons.

The Global Peacebuilding Center at the U.S. Institute of Peace is pleased to provide educators with this Discussion Guide to the Global Peacebuilding Center’s multimedia exhibit, “Witnesses to Peacebuilding.” This series of six short video pieces tells powerful individual stories of various peacebuilders from around the world. The accompanying Discussion Guide provides educators with questions to guide a post-screening conversation with your students about key peacebuilding themes and activities.

In this lesson, students will learn about the history of human rights around the world and why they became so important to the world. The lesson focuses on the NCDPI global education components of investigating the world and recognizing perspectives as students consider why certain human rights came to be added to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 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.            

Students will begin to take what they have learned about human rights, the UN and apply it to an issue that is important to them. Students will work together to write a simple UN resolution to address that issue and present it to the class through a model UN activity. The lesson meets NCDPI global education goals such as investigating the world, recognizing perspectives, communicating ideas and taking action. 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 lesson, students will begin to consider which human rights are important to them and why. Students will meet global education goals from NCDPI including recognizing perspectives, investigating the world and communicating ideas about what is important to them. Note: This lesson was created in accordance with the 7th Grade Social Studies Essential Standards and 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 lesson, students will explore the structure of the World Health Organization (WHO) and its role in the Ebola epidemic in West Africa and challenges they have faced in responding to the Ebola outbreak. Students will also identify what resources are needed to bring the epidemic under control and create a poster to help the WHO get more people involved in the effort to stop the Ebola epidemic.

Students will analyze the functions of federal, state, and local government. Students will examine the reasons for the different organizational structures of each government.

American foreign policy resonates with the same issues as the debate over U.S. entry into the League of Nations-collective security versus national sovereignty, idealism versus pragmatism, the responsibilities of powerful nations, the use of force to accomplish idealistic goals, the idea of America. Understanding the debate over the League and the consequences of its ultimate failure provides insight into international affairs in the years since the end of the Great War and beyond. In this lesson, students read the words and listen to the voices of some central participants in the debate over the League of Nations.

In this lesson, students will explore the history, growth, and activities of a variety of organizations dedicated to promoting peacebuilding, as well as consider the potential for all types of organizations to play a positive role in peacebuilding.

In this unit, students will develop an understanding of the fetal development process and the disparity of pregnancy conditions in developed and developing nations. They will use this knowledge to create a maternal health plan recommendation focused on improving care, nutrition, and/or well being.

In this lesson, students will use text from Mandela's autobiography "Long Walk to Freedom" to connect with Mandela's life and words.

In this lesson, students will understand the history, mission and basic operation of the United Nations, including understanding the function of the six bodies of the U.N. and their main functions. Students will also understand some of the major accomplishments of the U.N. over the past 60 years and then analyze the purpose of the United Nations and evaluate some of the proposals to address concerns and criticisms surrounding it.

This resource looks at how the governments and people of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, and of England's French territories, interacted in politics, warfare, religion, trade, and everyday life.

In this lesson, students identify and analyze folktales. They learn the characteristics of folktales and use them to evaluate existing tales and to create original tales of their own. Students apply the writing process to strengthen writing skills and to develop creativity.