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Global Connections 2 Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding S T U D E N T WO R K B O O K
Student’s Name
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & CURRICULUM
Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
In Unit 10: Education Funding, you will investigate education funding in relation to the many issues that different countries face in providing educational opportunities for their citizens. You will explore these questions: • How is education funded in the United States? • How is education funded in other countries? • What are the differences in educational funding among different countries? • What organizations help fund global education?
To the Teacher
This Global Connections II Workbook is organized in the sequence of activities as indicated in Unit 10: Education Funding, except for the Journal or Blog Activity and Perspective Taking Activity which should be used during or after the study of the lessons.
To the Student
This Global Connections II Workbook gives you the activities and activity sheets for Unit 10: Education Funding. Keep the workbook available, as it can help you in reviewing information for class discussions and tests.
Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
UNIT/LESSON
TITLE
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Global Education - Unit 10: Education Funding
Pre-Assessment Activity: Hand Drawings
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Lesson 1 - Funding Education in the U.S.
Presentation Questions and Notes
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Lesson 1 - Funding Education in the U.S.
Education Funding Summary: Journal Entry
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Lesson 2 - Education Across Countries
Education Funding in Four Countries: Research Notes
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Lesson 2 - Education Across Countries
Education Funding Facts About Four Countries
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Lesson 2 - Education Across Countries
Education Funding in Four Countries Comparisons
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Lesson 2 - Education Across Countries
Education Funding in Four Countries Presentation Notes
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Lesson 3 - Educational Aid: Who’s Helping?
International Aid Organization: How Can It Help?
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Lesson 3 - Educational Aid: Who’s Helping?
International Aid Organization Research Notes
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Lesson 3 - Educational Aid: Who’s Helping?
International Aid Organization Presentation Notes
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Unit 10: Education Funding
Journal or Blog Activity
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Unit 10: Education Funding
Perspective Taking Activity
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Global Education - Unit 10: Education Funding
Post-Assessment Activity: Hand Drawings
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Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
Global Education - Unit 10: Education Funding
Pre-Assessment Activity: Hand Drawings NAME
Trace your right hand on blank paper and cut out the tracing. Write one question you have about educational funding on each finger of your drawing. Your questions cannot be yes or no questions - they must be open ended. Write your name on your traced hand.
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Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
Lesson 1 - Funding Education in the U.S.
Presentation Questions and Notes NAME
Use the space below to write down two questions about how education is funded at school district, state and/or federal levels. 1
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Use the space below to take notes about the presentation on educational funding. Once the speaker has finished, note answers to your own and your classmates’ questions.
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Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
Lesson 1 - Funding Education in the U.S.
Education Funding Summary Journal Entry NAME
Write a paragraph summarizing the information you learned about the funding of schools in your district, state and nation. Include at least six facts about educational funding.
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Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
Lesson 2 - Education Across Countries
Education Funding in Four Countries Research Notes NAME
Use the space below to take notes about information that you find from your research on education funding in four countries you chose.
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Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
Lesson 2 - Education Across Countries
Education Funding Facts About Four Countries NAME
Write 10 facts you discover about education and educational funding in the countries of your choice. Be sure to identify the country within each of your facts. 1
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Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
Lesson 2 - Education Across Countries
Education Funding in Four Countries Comparisons NAME
Compare the countries that you researched with regards to education practices and educational funding. Create four to five comparisons.
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Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
Lesson 2 - Education Across Countries
Education Funding in Four Countries Presentation Notes NAME
Use the space below to take notes about each country that you discussed during your classmates’ presentations. Record three facts for each country that was presented.
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Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
Lesson 3 - Educational Aid: Who’s Helping?
International Aid Organization: How Could It Help? NAME
Answer the question below. If you could create an international service organization, what could the organization do to address the need for education in developing countries?
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Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
Lesson 3 - Educational Aid: Who’s Helping?
International Aid Organization Research Notes NAME
Use the space below to take notes during your research on the following questions:
Name of the organization: The organization’s mission:
How does the organization carry out its mission?
Who works for the organization? Who does it work for?
In what countries does the organization work?
How is it funded?
What are its needs?
What are some suggestions for ways that “we” can help this organization?
Identify one image per point/question.
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Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
Lesson 3 - Educational Aid: Who’s Helping?
International Aid Organization Presentation Notes NAME
Write down three facts about each organization presented. Be sure to include the name of the organization.
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Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
Unit 10: Education Funding
Journal or Blog Activity NAME
Read the quote below and respond to the statement that follows. “Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.” - Sir Claus Moser (Moser, n.d., para. 4). In a paragraph, describe what you think Sir Claus Moser meant by his statement.
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Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
Unit 10: Education Funding
Perspective Taking Activity NAME
Read the quote below and the directions that follow. “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” - Malcolm X (Malcolm X, n.d., para. 10). Write about the quote above from two different perspectives: 1. Someone who cannot afford to go to school after the third grade. 2. Someone who can afford to go to a four-year college.
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Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
Global Education - Unit 10: Education Funding
Post-Assessment Activity: Hand Drawings NAME
You have acquired significant knowledge about educational funding since you originally generated and began the questions on your traced right hand. Try to answer the questions you previously posed on the back of each finger of the tracing. On another blank sheet of paper, trace your left hand and cut out the tracing. On each finger of your traced left hand, write one fact that you learned about educational funding.
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Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
Notes
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Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
Notes
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Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
References Malcolm X. (n.d.). Notable quotes about education and money. College Placement Consulting. Retrieved from http://collegeplacementconsulting.com/content/notable-quotes-about-education-and-money Moser, C. M. (n.d.). Notable quotes about education and money. College Placement Consulting. Retrieved from http://collegeplacementconsulting.com/content/notable-quotes-about-education-and-money
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g lo b a l e d u c at i o n
Global Connections 2 Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding S T U D E N T WO R K B O O K
Student’s Name
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & CURRICULUM
Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
In Unit 10: Education Funding, you will investigate education funding in relation to the many issues that different countries face in providing educational opportunities for their citizens. You will explore these questions: • How is education funded in the United States? • How is education funded in other countries? • What are the differences in educational funding among different countries? • What organizations help fund global education?
To the Teacher
This Global Connections II Workbook is organized in the sequence of activities as indicated in Unit 10: Education Funding, except for the Journal or Blog Activity and Perspective Taking Activity which should be used during or after the study of the lessons.
To the Student
This Global Connections II Workbook gives you the activities and activity sheets for Unit 10: Education Funding. Keep the workbook available, as it can help you in reviewing information for class discussions and tests.
Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
UNIT/LESSON
TITLE
PAGE
Global Education - Unit 10: Education Funding
Pre-Assessment Activity: Hand Drawings
1
Lesson 1 - Funding Education in the U.S.
Presentation Questions and Notes
2
Lesson 1 - Funding Education in the U.S.
Education Funding Summary: Journal Entry
3
Lesson 2 - Education Across Countries
Education Funding in Four Countries: Research Notes
4
Lesson 2 - Education Across Countries
Education Funding Facts About Four Countries
5
Lesson 2 - Education Across Countries
Education Funding in Four Countries Comparisons
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Lesson 2 - Education Across Countries
Education Funding in Four Countries Presentation Notes
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Lesson 3 - Educational Aid: Who’s Helping?
International Aid Organization: How Can It Help?
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Lesson 3 - Educational Aid: Who’s Helping?
International Aid Organization Research Notes
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Lesson 3 - Educational Aid: Who’s Helping?
International Aid Organization Presentation Notes
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Unit 10: Education Funding
Journal or Blog Activity
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Unit 10: Education Funding
Perspective Taking Activity
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Global Education - Unit 10: Education Funding
Post-Assessment Activity: Hand Drawings
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Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
Global Education - Unit 10: Education Funding
Pre-Assessment Activity: Hand Drawings NAME
Trace your right hand on blank paper and cut out the tracing. Write one question you have about educational funding on each finger of your drawing. Your questions cannot be yes or no questions - they must be open ended. Write your name on your traced hand.
1
Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
Lesson 1 - Funding Education in the U.S.
Presentation Questions and Notes NAME
Use the space below to write down two questions about how education is funded at school district, state and/or federal levels. 1
2
Use the space below to take notes about the presentation on educational funding. Once the speaker has finished, note answers to your own and your classmates’ questions.
2
Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
Lesson 1 - Funding Education in the U.S.
Education Funding Summary Journal Entry NAME
Write a paragraph summarizing the information you learned about the funding of schools in your district, state and nation. Include at least six facts about educational funding.
3
Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
Lesson 2 - Education Across Countries
Education Funding in Four Countries Research Notes NAME
Use the space below to take notes about information that you find from your research on education funding in four countries you chose.
4
Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
Lesson 2 - Education Across Countries
Education Funding Facts About Four Countries NAME
Write 10 facts you discover about education and educational funding in the countries of your choice. Be sure to identify the country within each of your facts. 1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
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Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
Lesson 2 - Education Across Countries
Education Funding in Four Countries Comparisons NAME
Compare the countries that you researched with regards to education practices and educational funding. Create four to five comparisons.
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Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
Lesson 2 - Education Across Countries
Education Funding in Four Countries Presentation Notes NAME
Use the space below to take notes about each country that you discussed during your classmates’ presentations. Record three facts for each country that was presented.
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Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
Lesson 3 - Educational Aid: Who’s Helping?
International Aid Organization: How Could It Help? NAME
Answer the question below. If you could create an international service organization, what could the organization do to address the need for education in developing countries?
8
Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
Lesson 3 - Educational Aid: Who’s Helping?
International Aid Organization Research Notes NAME
Use the space below to take notes during your research on the following questions:
Name of the organization: The organization’s mission:
How does the organization carry out its mission?
Who works for the organization? Who does it work for?
In what countries does the organization work?
How is it funded?
What are its needs?
What are some suggestions for ways that “we” can help this organization?
Identify one image per point/question.
9
Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
Lesson 3 - Educational Aid: Who’s Helping?
International Aid Organization Presentation Notes NAME
Write down three facts about each organization presented. Be sure to include the name of the organization.
10
Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
Unit 10: Education Funding
Journal or Blog Activity NAME
Read the quote below and respond to the statement that follows. “Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.” - Sir Claus Moser (Moser, n.d., para. 4). In a paragraph, describe what you think Sir Claus Moser meant by his statement.
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Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
Unit 10: Education Funding
Perspective Taking Activity NAME
Read the quote below and the directions that follow. “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” - Malcolm X (Malcolm X, n.d., para. 10). Write about the quote above from two different perspectives: 1. Someone who cannot afford to go to school after the third grade. 2. Someone who can afford to go to a four-year college.
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Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
Global Education - Unit 10: Education Funding
Post-Assessment Activity: Hand Drawings NAME
You have acquired significant knowledge about educational funding since you originally generated and began the questions on your traced right hand. Try to answer the questions you previously posed on the back of each finger of the tracing. On another blank sheet of paper, trace your left hand and cut out the tracing. On each finger of your traced left hand, write one fact that you learned about educational funding.
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Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
Notes
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Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
Notes
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Global Connections 2: Global Education Unit 10: Education Funding
References Malcolm X. (n.d.). Notable quotes about education and money. College Placement Consulting. Retrieved from http://collegeplacementconsulting.com/content/notable-quotes-about-education-and-money Moser, C. M. (n.d.). Notable quotes about education and money. College Placement Consulting. Retrieved from http://collegeplacementconsulting.com/content/notable-quotes-about-education-and-money
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