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Williams, Sonja – 1987
This book of teaching activities is designed to address the issue of hunger and develop a sense of activism and hope among students. It encourages students to discover some of the causes and misconceptions about world hunger. The book contains eight lessons with numerous activities to allow students to study hunger and develop a broader…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Disadvantaged Environment, Economic Development
Download full textOckenden, Sandy – Teachergram, 1991
This material asks social studies students in Canada to recognize the implications of the lifestyles of citizens in developed countries, and the power that consumers have to create change for a better world, to be agents of positive development. Development is seen as a four faceted process. This model implies that development is an approach to…
Descriptors: Consumer Economics, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Economic Development
Esser, Kevin – 1994
This program examines the relationships between domestic investment in society and the continuing pressures to maintain a strong military. The U.S. military virtually is unchallenged in the world, but basic "quality of life" issues remain to be addressed at home in the United States. This program provides facts and contrasts between the United…
Descriptors: Community Development, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Higher Education
Bread for the World Educational Fund, Washington, DC. – 1980
Designed to accompany a student activity packet on issues related to world hunger, this teacher's manual provides 12 units of study at the high school level. Materials are presented from a Christian perspective. The following topics are covered in separate chapters: introduction (justice and the right to food), the dimensions and scope of the…
Descriptors: Christianity, Economic Factors, Economics, Futures (of Society)
American Association for World Health, Washington, DC. – 1987
Every two seconds somewhere in the world a child dies from a preventable disease. Millions lack access to safe drinking water. Smoking, alcoholism, and drug abuse are on the increase in developing nations. In the United States, experts estimate that one out of every ten people, a majority of them women and children, go to bed hungry, and the…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Training, Developing Nations, Diseases, Foreign Countries
World Bank, Washington, DC. – 1988
This teaching guide is premised on the ideas that economic development is the best means to a better life for the three-quarters of the world's people who live in developing countries, and that economic development will also contribute to a healthy and vigorous world economy. The goals of the guide are to increase student understanding and…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Guides, Data Interpretation
