Be the Change
Essential Questions
- How can poverty affect succeeding generations?
- What circumstances can fuel long-term poverty?
- How accurate are commonly help stereotypes about poverty?
Activities
- Answer research questions about poverty
- Write a 5 paragraph research essay on the causes of poverty
- Education campaign with lower school
Resources
Videos
Statistics
Research Questions on Poverty
- Where are children working instead of studying? What is the connection between education and child labor?
- In countries where children work, what conditions and effects do they experience?
- How does poverty affect children's education?
- How does poverty affect children's health? (Do poor people get sick more and die younger? Why?)
- How does malnutrition affect children in poor countries?
- What diseases cause death in children?
- In countries with high infant mortality, what other problems are children facing? (Why do more babies die in some countries?)
- How is a child's life different between wealthy country A and poor country B? What is being done to improve child mortality?
- How does war harm children's lives?
- How does gender inequity limit the lives of girls?
- How is the world progressing on the millenium goal of eradicating extreme poverty?