Teaching
How ToUPPER SCHOOL CURRENT EVENTS
We suggest to get a good
first idea of our Current Events Courses for Upper School
(and very literate Lower School) students, that you
first look at the video that you'll find near the top of
this page.
Then read the article below. Keep scrolling down and
you'll find descriptions of each course offered, along with
samples for each course.
Connect The Thoughts
offers a complete program of current events courses. Each
one offers a great deal of information, followed by
structured research to be done by the student to discover
the current situation regarding that area of concern. Any
individual course can be done independently to provide the
student a real view of one concern in our world today, or
the complete program can be done. These courses include
Poverty & World Hunger
;
Endangered Species
;
Energy Concerns; Environmental Concerns, Emerging Third
World Countries; Current Wars; Racism; Religious Intolerance
; and
Terrorism
.
All courses are PDFs and can be instantly downloaded upon purchase!
World Problems - Current WarsAnother in CTT's series of Current Events courses for ages 11-adult. What is a war? What is the history of war? Where today are wars being fought? How and why did they start? What are the consequences of war? What is being done to end current wars?
World Problems - Emerging Third World CountriesAnother in Connect The Thoughts series of Current Events courses for ages 11-adult. What is "the Third World"? What is a developing, or "emerging" nation? In what ways do developing nations differ from other nations? Where are developing nations found? What is life like in such nations? What can be done, and what is being done to help such nations mature?
World Problems - Endangered SpeciesFor students ages 11-adult, who are ready to look at one of the greatest problems confronting life on our world. Species everywhere are vanishing forever, and man has no idea how their extinction will affect life tomorrow.
World Problems - Energy ConcernsFor students ages 11-adult. Few greater concerns confront us today than those of energy. Since the 1840s, our use of energy has exploded. Unrenewable energy supplies...gas, oil, Nuclear...powered the industrial and information age revolution. But WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF THESE FUELS, and fast. What will we do when the gas runs out?
World Problems - Environmental ConcernsFor students ages 11-adult. A comprehensive current events course on environmental issues. What is the 'environment', and how is it changing? How can human beings change an entire planet? What is air pollution, water pollution, land pollution? What is the Ozone Hole? Most important of all, what is Global Warming, how does it work, and what can be done about it?
World Problems - Global Poverty & HungerFor students age 11-adult who are ready to confront the plague of our time, poverty and hunger. Over half the human race is poor or starving. What can be done about it? Find out today in this detailed course.
World Problems - Human Rights AbusesFor students ages 11-adult. No issue has been more debated, or more important throughout history. A remarkable unit course which starts by defining what human beings are, and what rights are or should be. A course which will help shape the student's own existing ideas about human rights and which will open the student's awareness to the history and reality of human rights abuses.
World Problems - RacismAnother in Connect The Thoughts series of World Problems courses for students ages 11-adult. One of the longest lived and most pervasive of human problems, racism has been with mankind since the first men looked at other men and realized that they were different.
World Problems - Religious IntoleranceFor the student, ages 11-adult, who wants to fully understand the problem of religious intolerance. In a world racked with religious war and strife, no one can truly afford to not be aware of this core dilemma, separating families and nations, and resulting all too often in bloodshed and hatred.
World Problems - TerrorismFor students ages 11-adult, ready to confront one of the ugliest and most frightening phenomenon of our time. The 9/11 terror highlights the bitter truth, that no one can afford to not understand the problems and solutions to Terrorism, today.
