Task:
Poverty Webquest
Use the following links to research and answer questions related to poverty and world poverty.
Please record your answers in Microsoft Word.
Remember: Include your name and date at the top of the page, use Size 12 font and number your answers. Answer the questions in your own words. No copying and pasting!
1. Using The World Bank website and the United Nations website. Give your own definition of poverty.
2. Complete the stimulation at this site: www.playspent.org
Identify three things you learned from this stimulation:
3. Go to this website and read the Poverty Overview section: http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/overview
Write down three things you learned from this reading.
4. Take this his hunger quiz: http://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/quiz/
What is one thing you learned?
5. Take this hunger quiz on Canada: http://www.foodbankscanada.ca/Special-Pages/Hunger-Awareness-Quiz
What is one thing you learned?
6. Take a few minutes and look through the pictures of families around the world who live on less than $1 a day. Pictures here.
7. Think about how as a class we could help those living in poverty in Whitehorse. Write down your ideas.
- Choose 5 products you consume and find our where they were made. This could be clothes, sports equipment, make-up, even food!
- Research the economic and social conditions in one of the countries the product was made.
- Research the companies that make these products.
- Are there fair working conditions in this country? For this company?
- Write your response in one well-constructed paragraph.
Poverty Webquest
Use the following links to research and answer questions related to poverty and world poverty.
Please record your answers in Microsoft Word.
Remember: Include your name and date at the top of the page, use Size 12 font and number your answers. Answer the questions in your own words. No copying and pasting!
1. Using The World Bank website and the United Nations website. Give your own definition of poverty.
2. Complete the stimulation at this site: www.playspent.org
Identify three things you learned from this stimulation:
3. Go to this website and read the Poverty Overview section: http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/overview
Write down three things you learned from this reading.
4. Take this his hunger quiz: http://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/quiz/
What is one thing you learned?
5. Take this hunger quiz on Canada: http://www.foodbankscanada.ca/Special-Pages/Hunger-Awareness-Quiz
What is one thing you learned?
6. Take a few minutes and look through the pictures of families around the world who live on less than $1 a day. Pictures here.
7. Think about how as a class we could help those living in poverty in Whitehorse. Write down your ideas.