Can You Afford to Eat?

Here are downloadable documents especially for teachers from the Youthink! current feature. All are in PDF format unless otherwise noted. See the home page for links to current online feature resources.

Story: The Price of Food
Quizzes: Rising Food Prices | Nutrition

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Tips 4Teachers

Thank you teachers for boldly moving toward two exciting areas in education: multimedia and international development. Look below for ideas to help bring the latest global development issues into your classroom.

Link Youthink! topics to National Standards and Curricula. Draw links between the topic at hand and your national standards and curriculum. How does Youthink! fit in with your National Standards and curricular requirements to help your students develop research capabilities?

Research and Follow-up. As a follow-up to Youthink! stories, ask your students to research, obtain and read articles on the same subject in your local or national newspapers.

The students could summarize the found articles and explain how they relate to the Youthink! article. (To prepare your students for this exercise, you might want to find a sample article of your own to better demonstrate exactly what you want them to do.)

Class Activities for Students

• Debate: Divide students into two groups to debate a presented topic.
• Role play: Write a group play (or individual plays) on a chosen issue.
• Create ads: Create a message to explain the given issue (or to support one side of the issue). This could be a poster, postcard, radio or TV public service announcement, slogan, etc.
• Write a letter: React to an article from your local paper by contacting its editor.
• Rewrite: Turn a newspaper article into a dialogue between TV anchors.
• Present: Present findings to your classmates.
• Draw: Create a comic strip to explain how the news issue takes effect.
• Email: Ask students to send their comments to Youthink! We may publish them on our Get Involved comments page!

Creative/Critical Thinking. As a teacher, you know what issues your students will have trouble understanding or are most likely to skim over. Write a series of comprehension questions to bring their attention back to the text and require them to think about the article in greater depth.

Ask the students to come up with the answers on their own (or in groups of two), then asked them to present the answers to the class. Be sure to allow dialogue about these topics to flow freely.

Use Youthink! topics as starting point for students to write essays on these issues. This is their opportunity to think on their own about each topic and how they might change the world. Send us the essays! We may publish them on our Get Involved page!

Talking About Development!

Our Talking About Development brochure tackles the issue of development and the World Bank’s work in an engaging way geared toward 10–14 year-olds. Download the PDF file (324 KB low-res web version).

Development Education Program Website (DEPweb)

Teachers: The World Bank has a website of classroom-ready sustainable development materials designed for you.

DEPweb has online books and learning modules full of activities, case studies, maps and much more to help you explore the social, environmental and economic issues of development.

Getting to Know the World Bank

What does the Bank do? What is its history? This guide is written for young people by young Bank employees. Preview two chapters (PDF)