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Grade 5 Home: POVERTY

Simulations

PLAYSPENT:  This is an online game about surviving poverty and homelessness.

MAKE THE MONTH:  This is an interactive digital poverty simulation that allows you to experience living in poverty and face decisions that will either make or break the month. 

Learn 360 video - Sanjay's Story (India): I Live by the River

Meet a child who grew up along the Yamuna River in Northern India—one of the most polluted rivers in the world. He talks about how poverty has forced some people in the community to forage for coins on the river bed, thrown there as a sign of respect for the river goddess.

Learn 360 video - Foods from around the world

What if only 100 people inhabited the earth? What if they came from across the globe to live in a small village? See what that imaginary village would look like, with its diversity of races, languages, and cultures sharing one small space.

This is a chapter in the full video showing cartoon vendors sell foods eaten in different cultures in an imaginary cosmopolitan village. Learn statistics on world hunger.

Website: The Hunger Project: Facts about Hunger and Poverty

Know your facts: Read the latest figures about hunger & poverty.

Video - What are different types of aid?

This animation talks about how we aid impoverished countries. Aid includes humanitarian relief, community development and the role of advocacy.

Video - Food Security- Bali and Sumba

Video showing the differences in food and farming between Bali and Sumba.

Video - Water: A Case Study on Flores

This video features a case study of the water on Flores.

Video - Nutrition, child and maternal health in Papua New Guinea

This video shows the relationship between nutrition, child and health of the mother. It also examines ways that Papua New Guinea is responding to this health issue.

 

Learn 360 video - Basic Needs: Food Around the World

Food is one of our most important needs in life. Explore the wide variety of food crops, see how farming was developed by ancient cultures, and understand the role tradition plays in what and how we eat. Consider solutions to world hunger problems.

Website: Wealth and Poverty

Wealth and Poverty: Are people poor because they don't work hard enough or because the wealthy are too selfish to help them? 

Website: Smithsonian Tween Tribune: World hunger is on the rise for the third year in a row

The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization and other agencies put together a report that shows hunger in developing countries has increased. Why is this happening? 

Video - What causes poverty?

This animation examines the physical and human factors that cause poverty and impact on human well-being.

Video - Aid and trade?

This animation addresses the ways aid and trade are used to work together to improve human well-being. This includes a case study from Indonesia.

Video - A Day in the Life of Lucy

In this short video we join Lucy, a young girl in Uganda, in a typical day in her life.

Video - We live in a diverse world: Indonesia

This video shows the challenges of living in Indonesia.

Video - Imagine My City : Stories children on the streets of Manila

In this video, children in metro Manila show us around their city, where every square kilometre houses around 43,000 people.

Worldbook online article - Poverty

Poverty is the lack of enough income and resources to live adequately by community standards. 

Website: CBC Kids News: 56 Million People Are in Urgent Need of Food — and All for the Same Reason

Fifty-six million people living in eight regions of the world are going hungry every day according to the World Food Program. A map shows where you'll find those regions. They all have one thing in common; they are lands in armed conflict. 

Video - What is poverty?

Learn more about what poverty is and how it affects people.

Video - How do we measure poverty?

This animation looks at different ways to measure poverty and human well-being with a special focus on the Human Development Index.

Video - Millenium Development Goals - Progress in Human Well-being

This animation explores the Millennium Development Goals and changes in human well-being over the past 20 years. It also introduces the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Video - Urbanisation and Megacitites: Jakarta

This video shows the urbanisation of the megacity Jakarta.

Video - Interconnections - a poor man's crop and a rich man's food

This video shows the connection between the farmer and the consumer of products produced in Indonesia and sold in Australia.

 

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