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What It Means to Be a Global Citizen

  • Grade 6
  • Career Education
  • 1 min 5 s
  • British Columbia
  • BC6-CA-05

Sam's banana, T-shirt and phone are linked by dotted paths across a globe to a banana farmer, a cotton farmer and workers in many countries, showing that everyday things connect us to people around the world. Three cards then show what a global citizen does (learn how choices affect others, respect people who live differently, and act to make the world fairer), with a fair trade banana as an example of acting.

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The question this lesson answers

What does it mean to be a global citizen?

Meet Sam, who is getting ready for school.

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What the lesson says

What does it mean to be a global citizen?

Meet Sam, who is getting ready for school.

Sam's banana may have been grown by a farmer far away.

The cotton in Sam's T-shirt may have been grown in another country.

Sam's phone has parts made by workers in many countries.

So every day, Sam is connected to people all around the world.

A global citizen knows they are part of one world community.

Here are three big parts of being a global citizen.

First, learn how your everyday choices affect other people.

Second, respect people whose way of life is different from yours.

Third, act to help make the world a fairer place.

For example, Sam can choose fair trade bananas, which help farmers get a fairer price.

So a global citizen learns, respects others and acts to help.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 6

Career Education, Connections to community: global citizenshipBC6-CA-05

British Columbia, Grade 7

Career Education, Connections to community: global citizenshipBC7-CA-08

This lesson is also listed in Grade 7.

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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