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This resource guide contains ideas and suggestions you may find helpful as you infuse global education into your everyday lessons. There is no need to rewrite entire lesson plans, rather aspects of global literacy can be added to enrich your current content when you feel it is beneficial. Global education can be a springboard to engage students with higher level thinking as they analyze commonly shared issues, from the perspective of other cultures.=====

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As Haskell Schools searches for more ways to increase course rigor and student engagement, we can utalize global education as a tool on the road to acheiving our goals. Global education is uniquely engaging for students. It enables them to learn about other cultures as they examine their own perspectives, beliefs, and culture in light of of the reality of other peoples. Our students share a common tread with all peoples, of all nations. We live on the same earth, share the same finite resources, competing for the same job, and are often at the mercy of the same economic instabilitys. Our students are global citizens and understanding their role as such, empowers them with tools necessary for their individual, and our national, success.=====

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For instance, in Haskell many families incomes are determined by the market valuesof beef, corn and soy. These values are influenced by global demand and issues. The cost of metal has increased drastically due to the building boom in China. Fuel is more expensive because of special blends designed to reduce pollution, Students and their families are directly impacted by these, and many other globally relevant issues.=====