In this lesson, students will be introduced to immigration. The students will view three pictures of people immigrating. The teacher will use the books: If Your Name was Changed at Ellis Island by Levine, Ellen, and Wayne Parmenter, How I Learned Geography by Shulevitz, Uri and Lost and Found Cat: The True Story of Kunkushs Incredible Journey by Kuntz, Doug to show the students pictures that depict immigration.The students will also complete a three columned Know, Want to Know and Learned chart on what is immigration. The students will complete a sorting vocabulary activity to become more knowledgeable about immigration terms. This lesson was developed by Cheryl Riffe 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 watch a short video to review immigration terms. The students will review the sticky note reflections from the previous three interviews by people who immigrated to the United States from other countries. The students will conduct a research assignment to learn about children who have immigrated to the United States. The students will work in pairs and will use a chart to answer specific questions pertaining to immigration. The pairs will use the information from their research to analyze and discuss why people immigrate to another country from their homeland. This lesson was developed by Cheryl Riffe 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.

Three activities to build background and interest in the topic and to activate any prior knowledge students have about cultures. This lesson was developed by Julie Glaser 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 use technology to write and share information about their researched cultures. This lesson was developed by Julie Glaser 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 information about a culture in order to teach others about it. This lesson was developed by Julie Glaser 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.            

This lesson is possibly three to five class periods. Student groups will select an endangered Asian animal from the teacher approved website and animal list. During this lesson students will begin researching and collecting information about the animal. This lesson was developed by Ashley Wondra 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 to find main idea in a nonfiction text about endangered rhinoceroses. Main idea should be taught prior to this lesson using reading strategies. Students should already know main idea is what the text is mainly about in one sentence. Students should be able to locate the main idea in the topic sentence, heading, last sentence of the text, and know it may be found in text features. This lesson was developed by Ashley Wondra 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.

Description: This lesson plan engages students by applying what they have learned about main idea and extends their learning about endangered animals like the rhinoceroses in Africa and the Indian python snake from India. Students review main idea and learn to use the boxes and bullets strategy to organize the notes they find while reading nonfiction texts. This lesson was developed by Ashley Wondra 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 investigate how they can adapt their behavior to live in changing habitats. The students have been discovering and researching how animals adapt to their environments in various ways. Students will now play a role in how they can adapt their behaviors in order to make an impact on the habitat in which they live. In earlier lessons they had learned about the disappearing honeybees and the polar bears adaptation to severe conditions. Students will now have to solve a problem within their own habitat. The students will become part of a team in which they will complete a Problem Based Learning activity (PBL). In this PBL they will have to solve the "phone book problem". Students will become part of a team to clean up the mess of old and unused phone books. They will identify and collaborate what to do with them through the PBL. This lesson was developed by Victoria James 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.            

Student will research an animal they are assigned from Australia using an informational rubric. The students will research their animal using the guide given by teachers. They will investigate the information and take notes regarding their animal. They will use the computer to research and learn about their animal in its habitat and ecosystem. Students will identify environmental changes, adaptations, and behaviors that enable animals (including humans) to survive in changing habitats. They will communicate their ideas in writing using a rubric before they construct a Google Slideshow representing their findings. This lesson was developed by Victoria James 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 investigate how an animal has adapted in nature by the way an ecosystem presents itself. Students will investigate the world's ecosystems and identify what attributes are helpful in order to survive. Students will read nonfiction text chosen by their teacher about polar bears. They will understand what attributes the animal needs in order to survive successfully within the ecosystem it resides. During which time students will recognize the importance of having a balanced ecosystem and how protecting the balance is important for sustaining life. Students will also brainstorm ways in which the changing ecosystem may be harmful to the polar bear and how the polar bear could adapt to sustain life. This lesson was developed by Victoria James 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.             

The students will investigate the world's ecosystems and identify what attributes may be helpful or harmful to an ecosystem and its production. Students will read about honeybees and how their nationwide disappearances are endangering the productivity of our crops and stability of life. They will investigate ways to protect them from natural and man-made enemies. The students will recognize the importance of having a balanced ecosystem and how protecting the balance is important for sustaining life. Students will read a nonfiction text about honeybees. They will then discuss and complete a Problem Based Learning Project to implement the plans they will create to help protect such a valuable species. This lesson was developed by Victoria James 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 Chinese birthday traditions. Students will celebrate the diversity of people, food, games and traditions globally. This lesson was developed by Leslie Montgomery 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.

This lesson allows students to investigate birthdays around the world by using text to explore different celebrations and traditions in the world in which we live. The students will listen and learn about the diversity of people, food, games and traditions globally. This lesson was developed by Leslie Montgomery 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.

This lesson will help students investigate the role a map plays in everyday lives at home, at school, around town or country and in the world. The students will explore how to use a map from a simple map of a room to a more complex map, such as a world map. This lesson will help students to better understand where the different countries they are exploring throughout this unit are on the world map in comparison to the United States. This lesson was developed by Leslie Montgomery 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 to recognize how others celebrate their birthdays around the world. Students will embrace and explore the feelings of others as well as their own feelings as they learn about the differences in how people celebrate birthdays. This lesson was developed by Leslie Montgomery 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.

This lesson reviews what the students have learned throughout this unit. During this lesson, the students have the opportunity to take action by writing and drawing in their journals to reflect on what they have learned about birthday celebrations around the world. The final part of this unit is for the students to share their work with the class to give their perspectives on different traditions around the world. This lesson was developed by Leslie Montgomery 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.

For this lesson, the students will work in small collaborative groups to investigate ways to recycle large quantities of paper such as a phone book. Students will need to know what the Three R’s represent and how countries all over the world play a part in preserving their ecosystems. Students will complete a Performance Based Learning (PBL) activity in which they will have to find reasons for recycling phone books. This lesson was developed by Lindsey Chavis-Turner 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.            

For this lesson, the students will need to work in small collaborative groups to investigate the honeybee’s decrease in population. They will need to discuss and decipher the information presented to them in order to generate opinions on the causes and solutions. Students will apply what they have learned about the honeybees and effects of them being removed from an ecosystem by sharing those perceptions through a presentation of their completed PBL. This lesson was developed by Lindsey Chavis-Turner 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.            

For this lesson, the students will work in small collaborative groups investigating a polar bear. Students will describe the habitat of a polar bear and determine what characteristics it possesses to live within that ecosystem. They will also determine if the ecosystem the animal lives in becomes compromised or changed, will that animal still have a chance of survival. They will discuss and decipher the information in order to generate opinions. Students will present their ideas to the class to create a boxes and bullets graphic organizer. This lesson was developed by Lindsey Chavis-Turner 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.