This information could also of course be recorded on small devices (such as Talking Tins or Talk-Time Postcards) which could be sited next to the displays. The visitors can be children from their own class, other classes from within the school, parents, members of staff, governors . It makes ideas about people in the world comprehensible by positing that there are only 100 people in the world.

Lesson ideas include: Earth Day, Social Studies communities (macro to micro), global citizenship, text features, math statistics and ratios, etc. While perhaps not the most boring book ever created for young readers, If the World Were a Village is certainly a contender.Between 1863 and 1935 (when it was boarded up) more than 7,000 people from 20 countries lived in the tenement’s 20 cramped apartments. And day and night, there was the clomp-clomp of worn-out shoes going up and down the many flights of wooden stairs. If the World Were a Village: A Book about the World's People" is a Nonfiction/Informational text that I believe would be appropriate to use with 4th through 6th graders. This beautifully illustrated and unique book, revised and updated for 2018 onwards, explains facts about the world's population in a simple, non-political and fascinating way.

First published to wide acclaim in 2002, this eye-opening book has since become a classic, promoting ?If the entire world's population was reduced to just 100 people in one village, what would those 100 people be like?

Some of the pages in the book are easier to interpret and represent than others, so there's some natural differentiation. Helps children (and adults) catch a glimpse of what life is like around the world by imagining there are 100 people and then telling how many of them have enough food to eat, where they live, what languages they speak, etc. Overall, this book was really insightful and helpful with learning what the world is truly like and not just what you see in your town or city you live in. This book was featured as one of the selections for the August 2011 Maps and Geography themed books for the Picture-Book Club in the Children's Books group here at Goodreads.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. But the text quickly becomes a blur of numbers and facts – and Shelagh Armstrong’s double-page spreads are unlikely to energize or focus young readers: with their monotonous compositions and colours, stylized landscapes, and faceless people, her paintings quickly become tedious. I think it would be a great book to introduce the big ideas of world studies or even to illustrate percentages and statistics in a more tangible fashion. People's religions are explored, and their education, standard of living and much, much more are discovered. This bestseller is newly revised with updated statistics, new activities and completely new material on food security, energy and health.