If the World Were a Village

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If you keep these few simple (and most of them, obvious) rules in mind, speaking in another country and meeting people from another culture is an enriching experience. It's also a good way for students to practice and examine real world applications of the number 100 (for younger students) or proportions and comparisons (for older students). That number is remarkably difficult to grasp, for adults or children, but this book attempts to make it easier to relate to by imagining that population in a village of only 100 people. This is an important number as many experts think that 250 is the maximum number of people the village can sustain .

It's a good way to look at communities and our own impact around the world, as well as just to help students understand the magnitude of the world better.The concept of mathematics and sorting through numbers makes it an excellent resource to use in both KS1 and Ks2 mathematics lessons. I was already going to start off discussing different cultures but this is a fanfreakingtastic starting point. Lesson ideas include: Earth Day, Social Studies communities (macro to micro), global citizenship, text features, math statistics and ratios, etc. Thought-provoking and highly effective, this world-in-miniature will open eyes to a wider view of our planet and its human inhabitants.

Its hard to picture so many people at one time-but what if we imagine the whole world as a village of just 100 people? Smith's If the World Were a Village truly is, I believe, one of the best books I have encountered to teach global awareness to children. This picture book is still very informative, but it displays the information without overloading readers with long paragraphs. The technique used is both traditional and up-to-date: lots of memorization, but not the old-fashioned methodology of rote-for-rote's-sake, but rather memorization informed and enriched by the real use of knowledge, study, practice, mnemonics, and games.The display above contains original material as well as documents from a range of internet resouce sites. Objectives: Year 5 Recognise the per cent symbol and understand that per cent relates to number of parts per hundred. Synopsis: It is really difficult to imagine just how many people live on our planet and what they are like. As well as schooling ,some people don't get to go to school they have to work to get money to feed there family. Although I am actually a bit overwhelmed with and by the seemingly vast amount of information presented, and especially so with all of the numerical data (and would therefore tend to divide the same into smaller, more manageable chunks if I were reading this with or to children), David J.

I think that "If the World Were a Village: A Book about the World's People" is also a book that refutes some peoples' beliefs that Nonfiction texts are always boring and word heavy. Much more successful at making her material come alive is Linda Granfield’s latest, 97 Orchard Street, New York: Stories of Immigrant Life. And I have learned by experience that –although people are people wherever you go– audiences may have divergent habits and react differently to what you say and what you do. When learning about charts and graphs in Math, my students and I could use the data from each page to create a chart or graph that displays the information.

This book presents statistics about the world from the perspective of 100 people living in a village. trillion aquatic animals are killed for food, bycatch such as turtles and dolphins biggest threat to life as a species is the fishing industry trawlers, netting, and being caught as by-catch.