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Millennium Development Goals

Curriculum

 

One World Youth Project has created a unique middle & high school curriculum for its participating groups which focuses on the MDGs, cultural exchange, and service work.

Designed to be used over an 8 month period, each sister-group pair is assigned a specific MDG, uses identical curriculum and is encouraged to communicate about each monthly assignment.  Selected responses are also posted on the website. 

Each MDG is explored through a curriculum program centered on a real life, personal story.  Each month’s curriculum is considered an ‘episode’ in the life of a real person whose life intersects with the focus MDG.  Monthly curriculum activities are provided, which use the personal testimony as a jumping off point to explore the featured MDG in more depth.  Each month of curriculum builds on the previous month. Suggested lesson plans for each activity are also provided. 

 

   Here is a quick guide through the curriculum…

All groups receive the same curriculum for October & November

October: Youth learn about the importance of cultural exchange in taking positive action.

                 October teacher & student guide        Features of a Culture worksheet

                                              student work

November: Youth learn about all the UN Millennium Developments Goal and begin to narrow in on their focus MDG.       November teacher & student guide       Setting Goals worksheet

                                                             student work

 

December through March curriculum is specific to a groups assigned MDG

December: Youth are introduced to a real life, personal story related to their focus MDG. This first episode provides background information on the featured story-teller and his/her community.

January: Youth learn about the ‘climax’ incident in the featured personal story.

February: Youth connect the issues discussed in the personal story to a larger context.

March: Youth hear from the featured story-teller on solutions and to their focus MDG an they learn why the story-teller has hope for the future.

click on an MDG to access its specific curriculum & student work

MDG 1    MDG 2     MDG 3     MDG 4    MDG 5     MDG 6    MDG 7    MDG 8

 

All groups receive the same curriculum for April & May

April: Youth examine how their focus MDG connects to poverty.   April teacher & student guide

May: Youth take time to reflect and celebrate progress.         May teacher & student guide

The curriculum activities are designed to:

Help youth better understand their own community and culture

Help youth learn about their focus MDG

Help youth relate their focus MDG to their own community

One World Youth Project

Millennium Development Goal resources

Educator's Guide to the Millennium Development Goals

A collaboration between One World Youth Project and TakingITGlobal

 

A Guide to MDG Action

 

A collaboration between One World Youth Project and Youth Service America

 
   



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