Curriculum Resources on Economic Rights
AIUSA Human Rights Educators’ Network Resource Notebook on Economic Rights, see p.16 for ordering information.
Center for Economic Conversion, 222 C. View St. Mtn. View, CA 94041. (415) 968-8798. Educates about the military economy and facilitates the process of converting to a civilian-based economy. Resource guides, handbooks, and reports. Teacher’s kit on economic conversion for high school classrooms.
Center for Teaching International Relations (CTIR), University of Denver, 2201 S. Gaylord St., Denver, CO 80208. (303) 871-2164. Curriculum materials and teaching guides for all grade levels, including Teaching Global Awareness with Simulations and Games.
Church World Service—Office on Global Education, 2115 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218-5755. (410) 727-6106. Curriculum materials, videos, fact sheets, posters, and note cards.
Food First Information and Action Network, Institute for Food & Development Policy, 398 60th St., Oakland, CA 94618. (510) 654-4400. Educational materials, teaching kits, simulations, lesson plans, and student readings including the Food First Curriculum which engages children in questioning the roots of global hunger.
The Resource Center of the Americas, 317 Seventeenth Avenue SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414-2077. (612) 627-9445. Educational resources on economic and cultural issues in the Americas, including Child Labor is not Cheap (see review and excerpt on pages 14–15) and The Cost of Your Shirt, a simulation exercise for secondary students based on the lives of Guatemalan textile workers.
Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE), Lou Henry Hoover Bldg., Room 200, Stanford, CA 94305-6012. (415) 723-1116. (www—iis.stanford.edu/SPICE). Educational resources including Living in a Global Age, a simulation of international trade between developed and developing countries.
World Bank Publications, P.O. Box 37525 Washington, D.C. 20013. (202) 477-1234. Educational materials, including Toward a Better World learning kit series, providing in-depth case studies of international development projects and problems.
Zero Population Growth, 1400 Sixteenth Street N.W., Suite 320, Washington, D.C. 20036. (202)332-2200. (www.zpg.org). Curriculum materials including People and the Planet: Lessons for a Sustainable Future, and Earth Matters: Studies for our Global Future, which include excellent exercises on resource use and distribution, hunger, poverty, and environmental issues.
