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Exploring Justice:
South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Peter Hegelbach and Caroline Starbird
CTIR, 2008
$19.95
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What is the best way to resolve conflict? What is the purpose of justice? This curriculum focuses on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, including the restorative and retributive models of justice. The lessons guide students while they examine conflicts that occur in their own schools. These lessons help students conceptualize the use of different types of justice, and how this can change the atmosphere, the environment, and the outcome.
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ISBN: 978-0-943804-99-6 |
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Teaching International Law –
Concepts in International Relations
Caroline Starbird, Jenny Petit,
and Lauren Singleton
CTIR, 2003
$24.95
What is international law really about? This set of lessons explains the basic workings of international law at a level high school students can easily comprehend. Through classroom activities, students learn about the history of international law, how international laws are formulated, problems with enforcing them, and the process of taking a case before an international tribunal. Human rights law, crimes of war, environmental law, and business law are also addressed. In addition students learn about the role of the UN and regional organizations, the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, and special tribunals. Lessons are standards based.
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ISBN: 978-0-949804-91-0 |
Teaching
International Relations
Barb Superka and Rebecca Parnell with assistance from
Jacquelyn Johnson, Marianne Kenney and Toni Adamo
$34.95
The
lessons and activities contained in this curriculum
are designed to introduce some of the basic themes of
international relations and to lay the conceptual groundwork
for analyzing some of the issues that are affecting
the world today. All lessons demonstrate a standards-based
approach to the curriculum. Listings of the National
Model Content Standards in Geography, Civics, Economics,
and History are also included.
While the activities contained in this curriculum were
written primarily for the secondary classroom, each
lesson can be tailored to suit the needs of your students.
Unless otherwise noted, each lesson can be completed
in a 50-minute class period. Again, simply adjust the
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ISBN:
978-0-943804-51-4 |
Conflict
Activity Cards
Farren Webb, et al.
K-5 edition revised by Caroline Starbird
CTIR, 2004
$16.95
These
action-oriented cards put easy supplemental activities
at your fingertips. The cards teach students to
recognize different types of conflict, ranging
from conflict in their everyday lives to conflict
between countries. Students also learn to identify
different sides of a conflict and how to generate
alternative ways of resolving conflicts. Individual
cards can be used occasionally, as issues of conflict
arise naturally in the classroom, or together
as a special unit on conflict. Language arts skills
are integrated in many of the activities.
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ISBN: 978-0-943804-94-1
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Conflict Activity Cards
Farren Webb, et al.
6-8 edition revised by
Caroline Starbird
CTIR, 2004
$16.95
Click here for a Table of Contents
and a Sample Lesson for 6-8!
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ISBN: 978-0-943804-95-8 |
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Teaching Human Rights - Third Edition
David Shiman
CTIR
$34.95
This
book is based on and inspired by the United Nations' Universal Declaration
of Human Rights, with activities focusing on political, civil, social,
and economic rights. Activities include role plays, poetry, critical
activities with editorial cartoons and newspaper stories, crosswords,
and analysis of charts and graphs. An African perspective on human
rights is included, and themes of new activities include issues
related to refugees and women.
Revised
and updated with new material for 1999.
Grades 7 and up
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978-0-943804-79-8 |
Global Issues in the Middle
School
John Benegar, Jacquelyn Johnson,
and Laurel Singleton
SSEC and CTIR
$24.95
When
students see peoples' commonalities, it helps break down the myths
and stereotypes that form around groups who are perceived as different
or strange. It also encourages open attitudes toward new ideas.
This
book contains 27 activities, including, "The Global Kid,"
"The Trees of Life," "Sharing our Global Environment,"
"Biodiversity," and "The Family Tree
of a Language."
Grades 5-8
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0-89994-377-2 |
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Global Issues in the
Elementary Classroom
The Massachusetts Global
Education Project
SSEC and CTIR
$24.95
This
book contains a broad array of activities to help you introduce
basic global and international topics to your students. Activities
are organized into five sections: "Introducing the Concept
of Global Awareness," "Studying Human Values," "Studying
Global Systems," "Studying Global Issues and Problems,"
and "Studying Global History."
Activities
include: "Your Global Home," "The Wisdom of Proverbs,"
"School Rules around the World," "Using Foreign Currencies
to Learn about Others," "Journeys that Make the World
Smaller," "A World of Invention," and "Architecture
and Global History."
Grades K-6
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| ISBN:
0-89994-372-1
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Teaching Global Awareness with Simulations & Games
Steven Lamy, et al.
CTIR
$34.95
Your students
will learn about global concerns through various simulations and
games. For example, in "Missing," students role play the
family and concerned acquaintances of an imprisoned journalist.
Other activities include, "Self-Defense: A Simulation of World
War I" and "Pennies: The Scramble for Wealth," a
simulation about world wealth distribution.
Grades 6-12
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978-0-943804-65-1 |
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