If the World Were a Village

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This beautifully illustrated and unique book, revised and updated for 2018 onwards, explains facts about the world’s population in a simple, non-political and fascinating way. This is an important number as many experts think that 250 is the maximum number of people the village can sustain . ways will make children curious about the effects of the different representations and keen to create their own ways of presenting effectively. Western audiences tend to pay attention to focus points, while Eastern people consider the background.

It’s moving to see how much effort these impoverished people put into their small homes, making them as tidy and attractive as they could. It teaches you that some people go to bed hungry and some people don't even eat at all as well as people that don't get fresh water to drink. This book is a remarkable and beautiful book that helps to bring world politics, economics and cultural diversity within the understanding of young people. That number is remarkably difficult to grasp, for adults or children, but this book attempts to make it easier to relate to by imagining that population in a village of only 100 people. As well as schooling ,some people don't get to go to school they have to work to get money to feed there family.

Smith’s information book is premised on an intriguing question: If the world’s population were represented by only 100 people in a single village, who would these people be? In every way this is a WOW book - the multicultural ideas, representations, the discussions with this book and the ways in which a teacher can utilize the information in the book are endless.

First published to wide acclaim in 2002, this eye-opening book has since become a classic, promoting “world-mindedness” by imagining the world’s population — all 6. The focus on environmental and other issues such as poor air quality, lack of clean water, and the challenges of girls receiving an education encourages action. Provide a range of resources to use to represent the information: cubes, bean bags, post-it notes, images that can be cut out, paper and pens, small world models, dried pulses/pasta, beads . If the entire world's population was reduced to just 100 people in one village, what would those 100 people be like?By shrinking the planet down to a village of just 100 people, children will discover how to grow up global and establish their own place in the world village. Seventy-five people in the village have easy access to safe water; 25 spend much of the day trying to acquire it. The 2nd Edition of the bestselling book which has sold over 400 000 copies in 17 languages -- updated with new content and insights about the world's people. Of course, much further study needs to be done to understand where and why these situations occur (for example, a baby born in the village today could expect to live to age 63; obviously, this is an average as some countries have high infant and childhood mortality rates whereas those in America can expect to live into their 70s or 80s) but and the author provides some teaching ideas and resources at the back of the book for parents and teachers who wish to do just that. When learning about charts and graphs in Math, my students and I could use the data from each page to create a chart or graph that displays the information.