I can't live without chocolate!

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"I can't live without chocolate!"
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Chances for one world

• A teaching unit
• for geography class 8

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Preliminary ideas

• Central questions
• Deficits in sustainability?
• Promotion of sustainability?

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Aims in the learning process for students

• to develop awareness of global problem
• to realize chances for a global partnership
• to realize student's own scope of action

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Teaching "sustainability"
1. The world population
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"Planet earth at night"

• http//veimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/1438/earth_lights_lr
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"If the world was a village"

• of 1001 people
• 95 Europeans
• 584 Asians
• 604 can't read
• 330 without access to fresh water

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2. Megacities

• Where do they grow fast?
• Why do they grow at all?
• ? Pushing and pulling factors

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3. Street children

• What is luxury?
• What are
• basic needs?

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4. Human development index

• ArcExplorer
• (Geographical
• Information System)

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Working with ArcExplorer

• What is the HDI?
• How do we live, how do others live?

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5. Children's conference
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6. Global partner-"ship"
Klett-Perthes, Terra, 2002
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The triangle of sustainability
social dimension (equity)
FUTURE
wordwide partnership
environmental dimension (conservation)
economic dimension (growth)
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7. Concrete examples

• Group projects
• Coffee / cocoa
• clothing
• orange fruit
• Tasks
• Presentation of conventional trade
• and fair trade
• Evaluation of its respective "sustainability"

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8. Group presentations
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9. Panel discussion How can we act together,
responsibly and in a forward looking way?

• Role play
• cotton farmer, father of 6 children
• group of former street children
• German state aid workers
• representatives of the regional government
• representatives of the firm that exports clothing
  to Germany

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10. Evaluation

• What are the chances of sustainable development?
• Where are its limits?
• What can WE do? What do WE want to do?

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Welthaus Bielefeld, Meine Welt und "Dritte
Welt", Bielefeld, 2002