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Volume 7: Summer 2: Global Education Project: Impoving Maternal Health: Child Brides, Stolen Lives	Printer Friendly Version

Improving Maternal Health

Child Brides:   Stolen Lives

http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/341/educators.html (lesson plan)

http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/341/index.html (video)

This is from the United States Public Broadcasting System (PBS) series NOW.   It provides a startling insight into the issue of child brides in many developing countries.   NOW's production team travelled to Niger, India and Guatemala to report on a global custom that devastates lives and keeps communities from prospering.

After viewing the video (it can be downloaded, viewed as streaming video, or viewed as a podcast) students are divided into small groups to discuss the societal and generational impacts of child marriage.   Following this, they re-convene as a large group to discuss their findings.

Continuing in the large group, students move on to discuss strategies to reduce child marriage and to discuss the progress made by NGOs in attempting to overcome the problem.

This lesson provides excellent background information, statistics on child marriages in different parts of the world, and interviews with girls from Niger, India, and Guatemala.

This lesson would be suitable for students in grade 11 Social Studies, Unit 5:   World Governance.

Curriculum Objectives

Social Studies 20, Unit 5:   World Governance

• Know that because conflict within any human relationship is inevitable, all social organizations must have some means of resolving conflict and making decisions that all can accept.
• Know that the process of change will continue for the foreseeable future, making it necessary for people to adapt to new circumstances as they develop.

• Know that issues in the future will remain complex and many-sided. Anyone wishing to understand them adequately will have to be prepared to use a dialectical thinking process to resolve the complications and contradictions.
• Should the future be viewed as something to be:
• resisted as threatening and dangerous; or,
• be welcomed as a natural process of change and development?

Evaluation Links

Saskatchewan teachers have been provided support resources for student assessment and evaluation from the provincial ministry of education, Saskatchewan Learning. Specifically, teachers have been provided with the document Student Evaluation: a Teacher Handbook, in print format. Chapter 4 on specific student assessment techniques contains a variety of ready-made rubrics, rating scales, checklists, portfolio set-ups and templates that could be adapted to each task developed in your classroom. This resource is available on-line at: http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/evergreen/policy/studeval/chap4001.html. The simple templates outlined on this Saskatchewan Learning site, will help you tailor your assessment to match any activity and ensure that your objectives are being met.

Another source of easily adaptable evaluation material is Discovery School located at http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.html.  The site has both subject specific evaluation tools and evaluation instruments for process oriented tasks.  You will also find rubric builders, portfolio evaluation instruments, graphic organizer evaluation strategies, etc. all at this site.

Another rubric generator can be found at http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/.  And, for a discussion on the value of using rubrics in the middle grades, teachers may want to go to http://www.middleweb.com/rubricsHG.html.

Produced with the support of the Government of Canada through
the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).