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Hands Around the World

Hands Around the World

Students will feel connected, literally and figuratively, as they contemplate and calculate global connections.

Lesson Plan

Supplies Needed

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Steps

  • Step 1

    Have a class discussion about what it means to be a global citizen. Perhaps it's a shared responsibility for the world, a sense that different perspectives can contribute to problem solving, and that what happens in one part of the world can impact other places around the globe.

  • Step 2

    Have students measure the width of the classroom and then see how many students it takes to span the width of the room with their arms held out. Ask students to look up the circumference of the Earth then calculate how many students it would take to circle the globe if they all held hands.

  • Step 3

    Ask students to create a drawing that shows children connected around the world, literally and figuratively.

Standards

MATH: Apply mathematical operations to solve real-world problems.

SS: Global Connections: Become aware of how things that happen in one part of the world impact other parts of the world and the global connections within basic issues and concerns.

Adaptations

Have students investigate games in other countries that are similar to ones they engage in locally. For example, la loteria is a traditional Mexican game similar to bingo, gonggi is a Korean game similar to jacks, and achi is a Ghanaian game similar to tic-tac-toe.

Ask students to write a math sentence to show how they calculated how many students it would take to circle the globe.