In this lesson students will have the opportunity to write their own myths or legends and share them with their parents in their own class. This lesson was developed by Carolina Vargas-Escobar 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 count the cans that they earned and are donating to the food pantry. The students will reflect on the unit and how they felt about helping others.This lesson was developed by Michelle Allen 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

After learning about wants and needs student can collect cans as a community project. The students will count the cans that they earned and are donating to the food pantry. The students will reflect on the unit and how they felt about helping others.This lesson was developed by Michelle Allen 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 take action for our unit on needs and wants by starting a can food drive for our local food pantry. The students will do jobs/chores at home to earn the can food they bring in to donate.This lesson was developed by Michelle Allen 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 that people have jobs so they can buy the things they need and want.This lesson was developed by Michelle Allen 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.

If your basic needs are not met, what happens? Student will look at life from the perspective of someone that is homeless or hungry.This lesson was developed by Michelle Allen 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.

Analyze the differences between needs and wants.This lesson was developed by Michelle Allen 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 view photographs of Haiti to investigate the world beyond the classroom and recognize different perspectives while looking at different photographs. It is expected that student’s perspectives will be limited since they have not been exposed to a lot of information on Haiti. This lesson will be repeated at the end of the unit with different pictures to see how their perspectives have changed from the start of the unit. *This is the first lesson of an 8 lesson unit on non-fiction and Haiti. This lesson can be completed in isolation but it is highly suggested that the rest of the lessons follow, in order for the lesson to have the full effect on students. This lesson was developed by Kate Quigley 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 view photographs of Haiti to investigate the world beyond the classroom and recognize different perspectives while looking at different photographs. It is expected that student’s perspectives will be limited since they have not been exposed to a lot of information on Haiti. *This lesson is the 7th lesson in an 8 lesson unit on non-fiction texts and Haiti. It requires the completion of the entire lesson in order to make sense. This lesson was developed by Kate Quigley 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 participate in partner and group discussion based of their ideas and thoughts sparked from reading a story about Haiti as well as two thought provoking statements. *This lesson is the 6th lesson of an 8 lesson unit on non-fiction texts as well as Haiti. It can not stand alone and needs to be completed with the unit. This lesson was developed by Kate Quigley 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.

Sometimes students get stuck in thinking every sentence written after the main idea is a supporting key detail. This lesson will look at the difference between an interesting detail and an important detail. *This lesson is the 4th lesson of an 8 lesson unit on non-fiction texts as well as Haiti. It can not stand alone and needs to be completed with the unit. This lesson was developed by Kate Quigley 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 focused on finding the main idea and supporting details of non-fiction articles all while investigating the disaster in Haiti to deepen their knowledge of the topic. *This lesson is the 3rd lesson out of an 8 lesson unit on non-fiction and Haiti. Where this one lesson, could be taught in isolation, it is highly suggested that it be completed within the entire unit in order for students to grasp the full content. This lesson was developed by Kate Quigley 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 listen to the read aloud text Serafina’s Promise by Ann E. Burg. They will respond to group discussion starters as part of listening and speaking goals in fifth grade. *This is the 2nd (and ongoing) lesson of an 8 unit lesson on non-fiction and Haiti. This lesson could be taught in isolation, but is highly suggested to be completed within the unit in order for students to fully grasp the content. This lesson was developed by Kate Quigley 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.

Everyone wants to help, but how? To whom should you give money? What kinds of aid will help the most now and in the long term? Students work together to communicate their ideas and decide what next steps should be taken. *This lesson is the end of an 8 lesson unit on non-fiction texts as well as Haiti. It can not stand alone and needs to be completed with the unit. This lesson was developed by Kate Quigley 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 what they know about main idea and important details to write a summary of an article about Haiti. *This lesson is the 5th lesson of an 8 lesson unit on non-fiction and Haiti. It needs to be completed as part of the unit in order to make sense. This lesson was developed by Kate Quigley 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 the concepts of counting beyond 100 by counting by 10's with tally marks. The shoe collection associated with it began in lesson 2. This lesson also allots time for students to count all the shoes around the school with the teacher's help and to take action in the last step of the shoe collection to help others in the world by bagging up the shoes for transport. The action taken by the students produced a large number of shoes to donate. The final part of this lesson and unit is to complete a reflection assessment.This lesson was developed by James Agner 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 shoe collection associated with the unit continues and students will put out more shoes around the school in pairs of two. This lesson reviews the concepts of counting by adding two, five, and ten. It introduces a way to count numbers quickly by using a Ten Frame to count fives and tens and introduces a game called 100 Hunt.This lesson was developed by James Agner 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 the world by taking the students to another country in a book about 2 girls that only have one pair of shoes, and includes information about countries working together and sharing natural resources in a show of global interdependence in the manufacturing of athletic shoes.This lesson was developed by James Agner 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 to communicate ideas. It will review the concepts of needs and wants and introduce goods and services. The shoe collection associated with this unit was introduced in lesson 2 and the preparations for it continues in this lesson. The students will use various methods to communicate ideas about the shoe collection to the school, families, and community, and will begin to take action in implementing the steps of a successful shoe collection. Students will also take action by helping put shoes that have been collected around the halls of the building.This lesson was developed by James Agner 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 helps students recognize the perspective of others, explores the negative aspects of not having shoes, and reviews the concepts of needs and wants. It is also where the shoe collection project is introduced to the class.This lesson was developed by James Agner 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.