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         examples:             Bullying and its effects             Disappearance of farmland               Ocean resources              Digital Divide                             No Child Left Behind                Animal Rights               Long term effects of bullying                The effects of obesity on children and what the                 school  systems of America are doing to help 11. Air and Water Pollution