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Valentine’s Day History, Activities, and Heart Art

Cordelia Newlin — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 17:16:49 +0000

Valentine’s Day is upon us with an epic number of iconic red hearts appearing in every nook and cranny. Of course, flowers and chocolates are also de rigueur during this holiday. Or you can combine the two, chocolates in a heart-shaped box thanks to Richard Cadbury, the British Chocolatier who created the first heart-shaped chocolate box in...

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Service Learning Projects for Classes

kidworldcitizen — Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:37:08 +0000

Service learning is a powerful experience for students, and an important component of global education. Global education should be opening eyes and minds to justice and empathy. In service learning, students engage in the local or wider community while trying to make the world a better place. I’ve come up with this list of 18 service...

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Videos about Empathy for Kids

kidworldcitizen — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 12:37:02 +0000

If we are raising children to be global citizens, to be changemakers in the world, and to be leaders in kindness, one of the most important skills we need to help them develop is empathy. I’m sharing today 18 videos about empathy to introduce kids to understanding the feelings of others. First, what is empathy?...

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Teaching Global Citizenship at Home

kidworldcitizen — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 16:44:41 +0000

One of my goals as a teacher and a parent has always been to teach kids that they are an important part of our global community. No matter your age, our actions can affect and contribute to the world, and we share a destiny with all humankind. Global citizens fight for sustainability, are culturally aware, understand the...

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Shoe-Cutting Party for Sole Hope: Helping Kids in Uganda Live Healthier Lives

kidworldcitizen — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 21:53:20 +0000

Every year our Girl Scout troop picks a service project that we can do as a Mother-Daughter event. We’ve helped packed lunches for kids in need, made blankets for kids in the hospital through Project Linus, and this year, we held a shoe-cutting party for Sole Hope. (see a list of fantastic service projects for kids...

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Service Project for Kids: Working to Eradicate Childhood Hunger

kidworldcitizen — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 03:31:27 +0000

Did you know that 1 in 5 kids is at risk for childhood hunger, affecting every county in the US?! That means that 16 million kids in the US aren’t getting the food they need. It’s mind-blowing, it’s tragic, and it’s in our own backyards. My kids and I recently connected with a local organization called Lunches...

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Books about Girls in School: Fighting for their Education

kidworldcitizen — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 15:44:35 +0000

53% of the world’s out-of-school children are girls and 2/3 of the illiterate people in the world are women. Gender inequality in education is an issue affecting million of children around the world. We can create awareness of this disparity in our young children through these children’s books about girls in school, fighting for an...

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“What Are Human Rights?” Lessons For Kids!

kidworldcitizen — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 06:00:48 +0000

“Human Rights” are inherent rights that are believed to belong to every person, without discrimination of any kind. Challenging for adults to explain and kids to understand, I have gathered the best resources, activities, books, and lessons on human rights to help parents and teacher introduce them to their kids. This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for...

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Education Transforms Lives

kidworldcitizen — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:29:13 +0000

The single, most effective path out of poverty worldwide is the opportunity for an education. Why? Education transforms lives. Education directly affects children’s well-being: kids not only gain the obvious knowledge and skills to bring to the workplace, but they have better health, better sanitation, and better chances of avoiding diseases such as preventable, water-born illnesses....

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“The Sneetches” Anti-Racism Lessons and Discussions

kidworldcitizen — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 13:14:46 +0000

This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for your support! The Sneetches and Other Stories is a collection of 4 stories published in 1961 by beloved children’s author Dr.Seuss. “The Sneetches” is a great book to begin an anti-racism lesson, even with the youngest students. The story begins by showing the division between the 2 distinct groups of...

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The Golden Rule Across Cultures (World Religions Series)

kidworldcitizen — Tue, 20 May 2014 18:03:52 +0000

This is the first post in a series on World Religions for Kids, a group of articles packed with resources to help teachers and parents teach their children about World Religions as a means to promote compassion, empathy, cultural understanding, and tolerance. World religions share a common virtue, that is universally taught, respect, revered: it...

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{Video on Global Citizenship} We Are All Connected!

kidworldcitizen — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:55:36 +0000

Last summer I had the idea to make a short video about global citizenship. I began asking kids how we could make the world a better place and what makes you a global citizen. Using their ideas, I created a script and put out a call on facebook to all of our followers to see...

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Service Projects for Kids: Teaching Kids about Fundraising

kidworldcitizen — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:51:49 +0000

Multicultural Kid Blogs is proud to announce that this year we are joining in the US Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service by challenging our readers (and ourselves!) to take the time to do service with our children. Members are sharing ideas about the kinds of service work they have done with their kids....

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“Best of 2013” Activities to Teach Kids about the World

kidworldcitizen — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 12:19:31 +0000

Look back at the top news stories of 2013: inspiration came from the brave Malala Yousafzai to the passionate Pope Francis, to the hopeful BatKid; the world shook with news of Nelson Mandela’s passing; the tragedies of the Boston Marathon and the super typhoon had us on our knees; the first Indian-American was crowned Miss...

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Real Families: Mom on a Mission to Make Birth Safe in Laos

kidworldcitizen — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 03:13:11 +0000

~Kristyn Zalota I can’t say that I ever really noticed mothers until I became one. For me motherhood is the hardest, most rewarding job I will ever have. I subscribe to the idea that it takes a village to raise children. Family, friends, and even perfect strangers, who lend a helping hand at just the...

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