United Nations in Your World Structured or customized, resource supported, programs from the UN. Choose from topics such as; Environment, Health, Human Rights, International Law, Model UN, Peace & Security, Peacekeeping, Poverty, Rights of Children, Sustainable Development, The UN, & War Affected Children Grades: 8-12 Cost: $50-$75 The UN in a Troubled World A four part international series with the UN that explores the work of the UN in today's world and looks into the future. Grades: 8-12 Cost: Series $200; Invividual $75 Globalization & Democracy A four part series on the importance of developing and sustaining democracies in a interdependent world (See below) Grades: 10-12Cost: $250 Staff Development Bring the World into Your Classroom Grades: 5-12 Cost: $125 Per hour (1-6 hrs)

UN/Global Issues Three separate in-depth classroom oriented looks at important global issues confronting young people. Each includes resource materials and is hosted at the United Nations with UN experts teaching the class. Causes and Solutions to Environmental Problems (UNEP) Peace & Security Through Disarmament (UN/DDA) Human Rights and You (UN/HCHR) Grades: 8-12 Cost: $150 for each series From Independence to Interdependence This 45 minute interactive program uses our Founding Fathers as the basis for teaching about interdependence. It helps students understand the concept of interdependence through their own history. Grades: 8-12 Cost: $75 Customized Programs Customized videoconferencing programs to fit the needs of your classroom and school curriculum. Grades: K-12 Cost: $100

From Words to Deeds Help move students from awareness to responsibility. Involvement by 11/19/04 will include an invitation for a no-cost participation in the United Nations Student Human Rights Videoconference on December 3rd; a Human Rights Day celebration and interaction with young people to discuss their work and make a youth statement to the world. Grades: 5-12 Cost: $75 African Perspective Programs Classroom Programs withAfrican history and culture. Offerings include structured programs as well as customized ones. Grades: 5-12 Cost: $100 per class GemStones Become a "Rock Detective" to better understand Planet Earth in a global setting. Program cost includes the hands-on geological materials used during the two hour adventure. Grades: 4-12 Cost: $250 for 2 hrs. (includes kit)

New Course: Globalization and Democracy
An International Partnership

This spring Global Education Motivators (GEM) will initiate a global videoconferencing series entitled "Globalization and Democracy". Collaborating with GEM in coordinating this series will the Association to Unite Democracies (AUD), Washington D.C., the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development, Dominican Republic, the Anglo American College, Czech Republic, and Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia. Rick Grier-Reynolds, a seasoned and distinguished teacher in the areas of Global Studies, will help the GEM staff coordinate curricular elements of the program. The purpose of this four part series is to connect high school students and teachers from around the world in an interactive discussion on topics facing today's interdependent world. Each of the four sessions will be formatted around a short

presentation from either a panel of experts on the topic or a case study relevant to the topic. Student participants will then have the opportunity to question the presenters in an open forum. To get ready for each session, teacher and students will have access to on line teaching resources via the Blackboard.com site hosted by Chestnut Hill College. These teaching materials are informed by the pedagogical work of Grant Wiggins and the "Planning Backwards" model. In this model, "Essential Understandings" are clearly defined for each of the topical sessions. From these are derived "Essential Questions" that frame the path to understanding. The various readings, videos, Internet sources, and activities found on the site will provide resources to help answer some of the questions, with the

panels of experts also providing real world anecdotes and answers. The goal of this series is to prepare students to be intelligently engaged in diagnostic analysis and discussion on selected topics and to become impowered and prescriptive problem solvers on some of the challenges facing their world. The topics for the "Globalization and Democracy" series are: 1. Globalization: Threat or Opportunity 2. Building Sustainable Democracies 3. The Global Marketplace: Winners and Losers 4. Prescriptions for the New Millennium -Rick Grier-Reynolds