Design environmentally sustainable activities. The candidates will design a Jump Start kit that includes a set of at least 3 developmentally appropriate children’s books that address local, global, international, and intercultural conflict resolution problems. Students should develop activities or book extensions towards finding solutions to global, international and intercultural problems.

1.   Provide a rationale for the selected topic in connection with current local and/or global issues. (conflict resolution)

2.   Select 3 children’s books around any attractive global learning topic for young children that will allow them to understand local and/or global problems (pollution, global warming, conflict resolution, poverty, technology and so forth). Bring them for your presentation.

3.   Include books with different genre and multicultural and international literature

4.   Take a close look at the developmental milestones of children from birth to grade 3 and explain why each of the books that you selected is age-appropriate. Justify how your book selection supports children’s language, intellectual, personality, social-moral, aesthetic and creative development. Some help in judging books can be found in reviews of new books that appear in journals such as The Horn Book, The Journal of Children’s Literature, The Reading Teacher or in any of the websites listed in this document.

5.   Book extensions (from one or different books, not from every book)

• Select a book to design an activity that addresses an international, global, or intercultural issue and its solution
• Design a felt board story for one of the books in your collection.
• Design puppets for a story.
• Choose a story and audiotape a story with music and sound effects.
• Design a book extension that helps children identify Plot and sequence of events