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ERIC Number: EJ631623
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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ISSN: ISSN-1056-0300
Reporting the World: Teaching Current Events from a Global Perspective.
Kirkwood-Tucker, Toni Fuss
Social Studies and the Young Learner, v12 n2 p29-31 Nov-Dec 1999
Describes a project that focuses on teaching current events from a global perspective. Students are grouped into news teams and then develop questions based on the five dimensions of the Hanvey Global Awareness Model. Provides an example of the questions and answers developed by a seventh-grade Latin American team. (CMK)
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Current Events, Educational Strategies, Elementary Education, Global Approach, Grade 7, Group Activities, Junior High Schools, Questioning Techniques, Social Studies, Student Role
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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