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Activity 5.7.1

What Can I DO?

The teacher throws out a challenge to the students. The teacher says, “The
poor are helpless, and I don’t think I can do anything to change the situ—
ation.” The teacher asks the students to challenge that statement and to
pick one country as a class and one thing that they would like to focus on
as they challenge the teacher’s statement. The students create documenta—
ries (shorts) to promote awareness of poverty and of their challenge. These
documentaries should be shared with a sister school in India or South Africa
whose students will create similar documentaries. The teacher introduces
the notion of designing for change using the lesson plan on the following
web page and engages students in the design of innovative approaches to
tackling poverty: https://www.tes.com/worldslargestlesson/taking—action/.

Resources

' A- short video on how different people will spend USD 10 (http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOXTPSYdP08)

° What have different people done? (http://www.youtube.com/
inmyname)

0 Free Rice (http:/ /www.wfp.org/students—and—teachers/ teachers)

° Publications and media resources designed for human rights edu—
cation purposes (http://www.ohchr.org/EN/PublicationsResources/
Pages/TrainingEducation.aspx)

0 Resources for educators to teach about poverty (http://www.make—
povertyhistory.org/schools/index.shtml)

Because the documentary will be shared with a sister school in India or

Africa, an important component of this capstone is a study of what good
communication looks like across cultures.

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