If the World Were a Village

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While perhaps not the most boring book ever created for young readers, If the World Were a Village is certainly a contender. billion land animals are slaughtered for human desire and pleasure, 100 million animals are tortured to death in laboratory experiments, 1.

By shrinking the planet down to a village of just 100 people, children will discover how to grow up global and establish their own place in the world village. SMITH is a classroom teacher with over 25 years' experience teaching English, Geography, and Social Studies in grade levels from 4 to 12.And when dealing with simultaneous translation, make sure you divide the length of your phrases as well as the anticipated duration of your talk by two. Western audiences tend to pay attention to focus points, while Eastern people consider the background. He achieved recognition for his unique method of teaching seventh graders to draw maps of the entire world from memory, now published by Fablevision as a highly successful curriculum, "Mapping The World By Heart".

There is a lot of text and numbers involved so I would not go into full detail with younger children but with older children you could do a lot with this book. Smith's If the World Were a Village truly is, I believe, one of the best books I have encountered to teach global awareness to children. For more infomation please review our use of cookies in our Cookie Policy and then Accept and Close this bar. In the past 15 years she has been awarded work by the Royal Canadian Mint (including three commemorative coins for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games coin collection), Canada Post and many book and magazine publishers. This little book uses a powerful method to teach kids (and probably adults) about the global population, something we need now more than ever.

If the World Were a Village is perfect for inspiring children with an interest in geography, citizenship and different customs and cultures, whether they read it at home or in school. Reducing the world to a village enables the author to break problems down into manageable statistics.

It is important for students to be exposed to the lives of people different from themselves to help them develop a global perspective. ways will make children curious about the effects of the different representations and keen to create their own ways of presenting effectively. Written by David J Smith, If The World is a Village paints a picture of the world population as just a village of 100 people.

This book is an excellent resource to help teach children "world-mindedness", Creative illustrations support this book about what if we looked at the world as a village of 100.