The unit focuses on non-fiction in multimedia formats. This lesson, Confronting Our Beliefs, allows students to critically access what they accept as truth and what is influenced by personal emotions and opinions. This lesson was developed by Sheila Wood 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.

Confronting the Truth This lesson allows students to see how propaganda has led to devastating ends such as the genocide of millions of Jews and others based on the work of the Nazi Josef Goebbels. This lesson was developed by Sheila Wood 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.

Confronting Propaganda Students will look at more current ways that propaganda is used. They will try to determine which are real news articles and which are promoting something different. This lesson was developed by Sheila Wood 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.

Confronting the Media Today we are looking at some of the major news agencies, in various mediums, and how we can learn to question what we are told and learn to discover truths on our own. The media holds much power in every country, not only ours. It is the “truth” that is repeatedly broadcast to millions of people daily. Sometimes the media is the personal truth of the leader of a country – especially those that are under the rule of a dictator. This lesson was developed by Sheila Wood 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.

Confronting the Facts - Today we will confront the facts head-on! Today we will use all of the information that we have at our very fingertips to learn the facts. Today we will look at research that has already been done to find what the experts have said about propaganda and finding the truth. This lesson was developed by Sheila Wood 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 incorporate how organisms affected at one trophic level in an ecosystem can change the entire structure of the ecosystem. The students will gain an understanding that human impact through deforestation, climate change and even restoration effort can alter an ecosystem's flow of energy through a food web which can have a chain effect spreading through the entire food web. The affect could cause an entire ecosystem to collapse especially if the original organism affected is a keystone species or an umbrella species. Students will learn that the extinction of the polar bears will cause devastation on the Arctic ecosystem that may cause the extinction of world biome.This lesson was developed by Elizabeth Bartlett 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 incorporate how organisms affected at one trophic level in an ecosystem can change the entire structure of the ecosystem. The students will gain an understanding that human impact through deforestation, climate change and even restoration effort can alter an ecosystem's flow of energy through a food web which can have a chain effect spreading through the entire food web. The affect could cause an entire ecosystem to collapse especially if the original organism affected is a keystone species or an umbrella species. Students will learn that the extinction of the polar bears will cause devastation on the Arctic ecosystem that may cause the extinction of world biome.This lesson was developed by Elizabeth Bartlett 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 working in a group of four. Students will be given a situation that has occurred within their given world ecosystem. The situation could be a disease that has infected a certain species of animal, resulting in eradication. What happens to your food web and how might this situation be avoided in the future? Students will then create a three-minute video newscast using moviemaker or screencast in order to communicate what has happened to their ecosystem and how scientists are working to make certain that this does not occur in the future. Students can use their notes or internet search to investigate the situation that is occurring within their world ecosystem.This lesson was developed by Elizabeth Bartlett 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 an ecosystem of their choice and then create a food web poster with at least 30 organisms. The students will have different sections that will include food web, food chain, energy pyramid, invasive species, and symbiosis, climate and population factors within an ecosystem. This is the summative lesson of the unit. This will allow the student to apply all the information that has been learned throughout the unit. The students will demonstrate through analyzes how an ecosystem is an interconnected ever changing system that incorporates many factors that affect organisms living in the ecosystem.This lesson was developed by Elizabeth Bartlett 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 an invasive species. Two students in the class will be investigating the same invasive species. Once they have investigated on their own, the two will then collaborate to create a visual presentation using technology, such as PowerPoint, Google Slides, or Prezi, to present to the class. This lesson will inform students about the destructive nature of species being transferred from one ecosystem to another ecosystem. The lesson will introduce students to invasive species throughout the world and how they affect ecosystems. During the lesson students will be able to determine different methods of transport for invasive species such as the ones that can hitch rides to those that have been purposely introduced by humans.This lesson was developed by Elizabeth Bartlett 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 one allows students to explore the interconnection between organisms and the environments they make their homes. They will begin with investigating how food webs, food chains and energy pyramids are different and similar throughout the world. By analyzing food webs, food chains, and energy pyramids, the students will be able to discover how different organisms in different ecosystems throughout the world utilize each other for their own survival. This lesson specifically addresses the need for students to understand how organisms within an ecosystem interact with each other. It will include the interaction of producers, consumers, and decomposers as energy flows through the ecosystem.This lesson was developed by Elizabeth Bartlett 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 collaborate in groups of four to determine who will investigate each limiting factor that affects an ecosystem's population. The students will examine limiting factors of the world ecosystems and how organisms adapt to certain niches to survive. They will break apart and complete the investigation independently. After they have completed their investigation, the students will return to their groups and collaborate on the creation of a poster for all four population factors. The students will complete a gallery walk, thus communicating ideas on how each group can improve their population factors.This lesson was developed by Elizabeth Bartlett 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 continue learning and researching their country's culture to complete a mandala. In their mandala, they will use the symbols, colors, landmarks, and history of their country's culture to complete a radial balanced mandala. A mandala symbolizes the wholeness and unity of the universe. Students will look at examples of rose glass windows, research hinduism and buddhism culture's to become inspired to create their own take on a mandala representing their own country's culture. This lesson was developed by Danielle Gaimari 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 are going to be redesigning the google logo to represent their country through the use of symbols, landmarks, colors, etc. This lesson was developed by Danielle Gaimari 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 are continuing learning about their country's culture and will continue researching their country's landmarks from the Country Traveling Research Question Handout from the previous lesson. In this lesson, students are going to choose one landmark and create a collage using the collage art making technique. This lesson was developed by Danielle Gaimari 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 embrace and become a person from their researched country. They will create a video production about where they are from in a poem outline to help guide the listeners into understanding the culture of their country. These videos will be presented to the class to see what different cultures are around the world. Students will write down facts they did not know or found interesting about all of the different countries researched in the class. This lesson was developed by Danielle Gaimari 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 each be exploring a different country and culture from around the world. In having students explore a country, they will be asked to become an expert. With being an expert about their country, students will be creating a traveling brochure. This traveling brochure will discover different aspects about their country. In general, students will research their country's population, culture, history, transportation, fashion, art, weather, food, religion, etc. The brochure will help show their understanding of their country and everything they have learned, plus more. Students will present their findings and share their knowledge to their peers every step of the unit. This lesson was developed by Danielle Gaimari 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 explore how to bat in cricket. Noticing the similarities and differences between cricket and baseball. This lesson was developed by Crystal 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 begin to apply all cricket skills learned so far into a modified cricket game. This lesson was developed by Crystal 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.            

What is cricket? Discovering what cricket is and the basic skills involved. This lesson was developed by Crystal 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.