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Global Footprints: Numeracy Activities

Description

This resource provides a variety of numeracy activities which support global, intercultural and environmental understanding for all age groups and subjects. These lessons are not intended to be taught sequentially, but as pieces to varying larger units of study relating to sustainability.

Activity 1 - Ten Litre Limit: Students practise estimating, measuring and managing data while exploring issues of access to and sustainable uses of water.

Activity 2 - Sharing a Chocolate Bar: Students explore issues relating to fair trade products while playing a math game, completing word problems and determining profits based on percentages.

Activity 3 - Getting to School: Students reflect on safe modes of transportation for getting to and from school while managing, displaying and analyzing data in a variety of forms, and completing word problems.

Activity 4 - The Journey of a Banana: This activity explores the origin and various stages in production and transportation of a food common to many children. Students will derive number pairs that add up to 100, use basic number operations to determine what amount of cost should go to different groups involved in production, sale and transport.

Activity 5 - Waste Audit: This activity is designed to encourage students to reflect on their own waste production. Students will use estimation and measurement skills to conduct a waste audit.

Activity 6 - Liquid Killer: Students will begin to examine and reflect on the differences in infant mortality rates in different countries and compare this to the access to clean drinking water. Students will practise basic numeracy skills relating to statistics and relate these to fractions and decimals.

Activity 7 - The Trade Game: This activity is designed to explore the trading relationship between rich and poor countries. Students will be asked to take part in a challenge where they must create a rectangle with a specified area given limited supplies. Students will practise basic numeracy skills and concepts related to area and perimeter.

Activity 8 - The School Run: This activity is designed to examine students' desired and actual modes of transportation to school. Students will: manage, interpret and reflect on data and statistics and relate to percentages.

Activity 9 - Peeling Back the Facts: This activity is designed to investigate the different types of bananas available for purchase and their costs. Students will: conduct numeracy operations relating to money, analyze the actual production cost and expenses related to banana production and sale.

Actvity 10 - The Rubbish Split: Examines the history of solid waste and ways to reduce it. Students will: interpret data and conduct numeracy operations to answer word problems relating to graphs and tables.

General Assessment

Question	Response
What skills does this resource explicitly teach?	This resource explicitly teaches students to interpret a variety of graphs. analyzing one's ecological footprint.
What important, related ideas/issues are not addressed in this resource?	action experiences related issues addressed. effect of issues on non-humans.
To enhance this resource the following changes are strongly recommended:	Students should participate in authentic action experiences. Students should be given opportunities to take part in discovery-based learning, and to choose some elements of their own programming. Effect of issues on non-humans should be addressed.
To enhance this resource the following changes would be beneficial:	Opportunities for assessment should be explicitly provided.

Sustainability Education Principles

Principle	Rating	Explanation
Bias Minimization	Good
Multiple Dimensions of Problems & Solutions	Good
Respects Complexity	Good	Complexity of the issues addressed are presented in an age-appropriate manner.
Action Experience	Mediocre	Action experiences presented are generally presented as extension activities and not integral to the overall learning outcomes. Issues addressed are generally encouraged to be implemented school wide. ie. use of fair trade food in school canteen and staff rooms.
Action Skills	Mediocre	Students are provided with an abundance of information relating to the issues being addressed as well as the means to interpret information. Students are not explicitly taught skills necessary for taking effective action.
Empathy & Respect for Humans	Good
Personal Affinity with Earth	Mediocre	Activities take place indoors. Issues relating to non-humans are not adequately addressed.
Locally-Focused	Mediocre	The resource is specifically designed for students in the UK, but could easily be adapted for students around the world.
Past, Present & Future	Good

Pedagogical Approaches

Principle	Rating	Explanation
Open-Ended Instruction	Mediocre	The majority of activities are teacher directed. Activities are designed to lead students to discover specific ideas and outcomes.
Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Learning	Good
Discovery Learning	Mediocre
Values Clarification	Good	Students are given opportunities to reflect on their learning and to evaluate their own points of view.
Differentiated Instruction	Good	Most lessons provide explicit opportunities for differentiated instruction as part of the activities presented.
Experiential Learning	Mediocre
Cooperative Learning	Mediocre
Assessment & Evaluation	Mediocre	Opportunities for assessment are present with specific reflection and discussion questions. Explicit strategies and tools for assessment are not provided.
Peer Teaching	Mediocre
Case Studies	Good
Locus of Control	Mediocre	The majority of activities are teacher directed. Students have limited opportunities to choose elements of their own programming.

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