Webb+Summer+2013+Units

Allison Boike: **How to Say 'No' to Peer Pressure** This unit will show students the power of peer pressure and how to resist it.

Bethany Doorlag: **Breaking the Cycle of Poverty.** This unit will focus on understanding the causes of poverty, how it affects the Kalamazoo community, and what we can do to change it.

Lisa Eckardt: **How Do Gender Stereotypes Affect You?** This unit plan will explore the causes and effects of gender stereotypes in society, the dangers of these stereotypes, and ideas for change.

Emily Eshuis **Food Production and Consumption**- Discover the social, political, environmental, and health related issues connected to food. Let's overturn the negative affects of food as an effort to combat world hunger, practice healthier living, preserve the environment, and help reduce government spending.

AlexisEverson **Community and Utopia: nurturing the land. **This is an inquiry based unit wherein students research and decide on a way to improve their community's environment and then inact that change with the participation of members of the whole community.

Eunkyoung Kwon: **Against the Discrimination in South Korea** - This unit will explain "Multicultural family" situations in South Korea. Most of them are combined native Korean and foreigners. They had experience discrimination (even racism) from some Koreans. Not only adults, but also some middle school __#|students__ bully the children who were born in multicultural families. I will focus on their situations, and how to educate students.

Susan Pendleton - **Help Fight Homelessness**: This unit will explain the growing crisis of homelessness in the United States and how creating shelters is a good way of getting homeless people off the streets.

Danielle Reese - **Teen Suicide** During adolescence teenagers are beginning to experience feelings they have never experienced before. With the onset of all of these new experiences comes confusion, and misunderstanding in different life situations. Often times these feeling can be overwhelming and not having support from peers or family can result in the adolescents taking extreme actions.

@Mary Schwartz **Preventing Youth Obesity**- This unit, designed for urban 11th and 12th graders, will open students' eyes up to the reality of the growing obesity epidemic in this country. Students will work together to analyze how their own community fits in to the overall issue, and will propose a solution to city officials. In addition, students will become more aware of their own lifestyle and eating habits, and will develop an understanding of how people actually become overweight and obese.

James Shoesmith: **Nutritional Education**: This unit will allow students to learn about nutrition through inquiry by providing a variety of literature and media with the ultimate goal of students creating public projects designed to educate their peers.

Jordan Stoyek: **Economic Inequality**: This unit focuses on the growing economic inequality in the U.S. between the rich and the poor. The students will learn and research different movements to promote equality. Students will work together to develop a solution to close the gap between the rich and the poor.

@Kelli VanSchoick: **Illegal Drugs in the Community**. This unit is designed for middle school students to research various illegal drugs, the effects and statistics in the community and outside the community in relationship to illegal drug use. Students will also create ways to reduce the amount of illegal drug use throughout the community.

@Jen Wiley: **The "My Style" Project for ESL Students in Japan**. This four week unit combines English lessons that involve reading, writing, speaking, and listening to examine the hot topic of educational and social pressures placed on Japanese students today, their consequences, and how students can make a change for the better in their school and community. The project gives Japanese students a rare chance to break the mold of rigid education and practice learning in a style that is personal to them.

Karen Willis: **World Hunger: Can We (I) Make a Difference?** This unit offers an eighth grade teacher the opportunity to introduce their school to a WAC. It also introduces students to a multi-genre project about hunger and the causes of it. Service learning is a key to making the unit a memorable learning experience.