Educators | Mercy Corps Action Center

Creating a more just and peaceful world requires that today's youth develop the knowledge, perspectives and life-skills of responsible global citizens.

The Action Center provides school groups, educators, and youth with an interactive learning experience that deepens understanding of the challenges faced by people living in poverty and action opportunities to enable change.

The Education Team has developed a series of workshops, activities and lesson plans for the pre and post visit that can be used in all types of educational settings, including formal and non-formal organizations.

On-Site Workshops

School groups will participate in workshops at one of four training towers: governance in Indonesia, conflict in Afghanistan, climate change in Niger, and land rights in Guatemala. Using field-based knowledge and experiential learning, workshops will make global poverty and hunger relevant to U.S. students. Students will develop perspectives that build stronger conceptual and emotional links with individuals living in developing countries. Register your school group now.

Teacher Trainings

Through face-to face teacher training workshops, Mercy Corps provides educators with the mechanisms and materials needed to educate their students about global issues such as hunger and poverty. Register for a teacher training workshop by emailing:
education@nyc.mercycorps.org

Interactive Web Tools

For school groups and educators who are unable to visit the center, the interactive video training program is available online.

Mercy Corps currently develops interactive learning modules on global poverty, HIV/AIDS, climate change, and universal access to education which can be found at: www.globalcitizencorps.org
/issues.htm

Additional Lesson Plans and Activities

Teaching Global Poverty curriculum is an eight-week unit suited for two 45-minute classes per week, but can be altered to specific school needs. The curriculum is unique in that it specifically addresses issues related to global poverty and employs a dual strategy of preparing educators to teach while also mobilizing youth into meaningful, sustainable action. For more information, please email: education@nyc.mercycorps.org.

Show this multimedia presentation on Hunger and use the discussion guide afterwards.
Use this Access to Education lesson plan in your classroom to explore issues related to global education.
Use our Action Planning lesson to provide more in-depth lessons for students already familiar with global poverty and access to education.
Use this lesson plan about choices related to HIV/AIDS that people in developing countries face every day.
Conduct this sticker your school awareness activity to simulate the HIV/AIDS prevalence rates across the globe.
Show this multimedia presentation on HIV/AIDS and use the discussion guide afterwards.

Student Opportunities

The Global Citizen Corps is a national network of young people who educate and mobilize their schools and communities to fight global poverty. Check it out and encourage your students to join.