ELE2022/  Barford

Select one of the social/global justice themes below.  Refer to the essential questions pages in your course packet.  Frame an essential question based on the issue/theme of your choice and interest. Think about a curriculum area to focus the theme generated by your essential question.  Plan and develop this theme as an area of investigation for students grade 4 and above. Read the assignment specifics on the course projects page. Use your theme stated as an essential question as the title of your project.
 
1. Hunger and food resources --
 
2.  Peace and War
        Peacemakers
        non-violence
        conflict resolution -- 
        effects of war on children --
        land mines
 
        effects of war/s

3. Human Rights
        Discrimination and oppression
        Rights of minorities
  
        Rights of women
        Rights of children
        Rights of those with disabilities                     

4.  Immigration

5.  Refugees -- 

 6.    Labor
            Sweatshops         
            Child Labor -- 

7.  Fresh water resources
            U.S. rivers and lakes --
            World fresh water resources -
            

8.  Forests

9.  Global warming and pollution --
        Industrial
        Agricultural
        CO2 emissions
           U.S. and the Kyoto Protocol
                  

10.  Suggest your own social justice issue

            Assistive technology 
            Bullying and its effects -- 

            Disappearance of farmland  

            Ocean resources -- 

             Digital Divide
              
             No Child Left Behind 

              Honeybees --
             
               Video games and violent behavior --

               The effects of obesity on children and what the 
               school  systems of America are doing to help -
               

            The need for personal hygiene -
                                    
                                     

       Alternative treatments for ADD/ADHD -

11. Air and Water Pollution