I want to adopt some Climate Project into my 12-week Contemporary World Problems class this year. Our department sets this class up using Google Sites, and each student looks through the lens of a different world country. Students pick a country, then each issue we bring up they put that country’s perspective on the issue into their website. We don’t teach the climate issues in a set piece, we look at maybe one big issue every 2 or 3 weeks, and go back and forth between Environment, Globalization, Human Rights, and Conflict. I know there is another thread called, “What would you prioritize?” from a few months ago, that’s given me some good ideas, and I appreciate Gwen Duralek giving great links, and Andrea Wong suggestions of what units to use and Donnetta Elsasser and Janet Mann with suggestions like getting other teachers involved and solutions to avoid the “doom and gloom”. After reading these great comments, I’m still wanting to know what people think about which specific issues to bring up? I do plan to use the skills from the Climate Project of course, but I'm trying to brainstorm specific issues I can lock my kids onto. "Global Warming" is just too big a topic, what are some specific world issues that would grab interest and most countries are dealing with?
