Learning experiences (activities and lessons)

• Sources of Inspiration – great to begin the unit
• Reflection for the Guest Speakers – (30 minutes, could be home learning after the talk, can modify add to fit different speakers, uses the 6 hats as basis)
• Using the Compass-has link to Keynote (60 minutes)
• Free the Children guiding questions for their website. Best used right after the Free the Children guest speaker. 40 minutes.
• Inspirational Kids-The students skim and scan several websites about inspirational children. They record their findings on a post and poster. Example posts from 2012: Eerik – written Eerik – poster
• Microfinance Keynote-without video
• A Fistful Of Dollars The Story of a Kiva org Loan
• Kiva-Animated video about how Kiva works.
• Microfinance – Follow up activity to Microfinance presentation. 1 period (can be home learning)
• Issues, issues, issues – Poster – Instructions to making a poster to raise awareness of an organisation/issue. Includes a template. Example posters from 2012: Sendai Tsunami – Noemi
• Knowledge Rating Scale Activity STP
• Taking-notes – How to…
• Water is Life – Third World people reading First World problems – short (but powerful) video