HOW TO TAKE A VACATION COURSE

For students ages 9-adult. Ready to take a vacation? Want to make the most of it, the most fun? How would you like to learn while having fun? Find out how in this simple, fun course.

The course specializes, as do all Connect The Thoughts courses, in developing the students understandings and ability to think and form their own ideas and opinions. Structured to be fun and challenging, and to increase the students vocabulary and understanding of geography, as well as of science.

World Problems - ENDANGERED SPECIES

For students ages 11-adult, who are ready to look at one of the greatest problems confronting life on our world. Species everywhere are vanishing forever, and man has no idea how their extinction will affect life tomorrow.

Using our carefully designed course, the student is provided a history of the subject, and some timely information. Then, through structured research projects, the student discovers the current situation regarding endangered species. A creative and informative course which allows the student to not only understand the problem, but to develop their own ideas as to solutions!

World Problems - GLOBAL POVERTY & HUNGER

For students age 11-adult who are ready to confront the plague of our time, poverty and hunger. Over half the human race is poor or starving. What can be done about it? Find out today in this detailed course.

A Connect The Thoughts World Problems Unit Course. A self-contained course, to be done in under 30 hours. Global poverty and world hunger - a failure in mankind and a plague that has laid hundreds of millions of people in their graves on nearly every continent on Earth. As we speak, 25,000 people a day die of hunger and poverty-related ills! Poverty - a true plague that has fed on mankind throughout our entire history.

Here is a course which does not run away from this difficult subject. Provided is a definition of Poverty and hunger, and the seven great sins they give birth to. Each of these seven human woes is then considered in detail - what it is, its sources, and how it can be confronted and handled. The problem is first looked at from a global perspective, and then, a local one. Specific tools are offered for the handling of these spawn of poverty, and many exercises are provided. The student also does a fair amount of structured research, improving their skills as they discover ever more about this important problem.

Our World Problems Unit Courses are built to define humanity's greatest enemies. Each course then makes its target problem thoroughly understandable, and empowers the student to help solve that problem. If mankind is ever to grow into its maturity, if we're to survive, we must confront such shortcomings as poverty and world hunger. This begins with our children, who will help build a better, smarter, saner world than the one we live in today...if we give them the tools to do so.

The student will need access to the internet, a globe and an atlas (or internet atlas).

World Problems - HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES

No issue has been more debated, or more important throughout history. A remarkable unit course which starts by defining what human beings are, and what rights are or should be, leading to a simple but profound definition of human rights. Then, the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights is broken down and considered article by article, line by line. The student does many creative and challenging exercises, which helps develop for the student their own ideas of what exactly human rights should be, and what steps should be taken to protect them. A course which will help shape the student's own existing ideas about human right into a sharp, clear vision leading to action, or which will open the student's awareness to the history and reality of human rights abuses, if the student has never considered them.

For the student determined to be the best person they can be! Around 25-35 hours of work. No additional materials besides a globe, dictionary, and access to the Internet are required. Test and answer guide are included!

World Problems - RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE

For the student, ages 11-adult, who wants to fully understand the problem of religious intolerance. In a world racked with religious war and strife, no one can truly afford to not be aware of this core dilemma, separating families and nations, and resulting all too often in bloodshed and hatred.

A Connect The Thoughts World Problems Unit Course. A self-contained course, to be done in under 30 hours. Religious Intolerance -- a failure in mankind and a plague that has fathered far too many wars, and laid tens of millions of people in their graves on nearly every continent on Earth. Yet, it is rarely discussed, and is generally not deemed an appropriate subject in schools which run from any religiously-based discussion.

Here is a course which does not run away from this difficult subject. Provided is a definition of Religion, including descriptions of the major religions and a brief idea of where they came from. Intolerance is then considered in detail -- what it is, its sources, and how it can be confronted and handled. Specific tools are offered for the handling of intolerance, and many exercises are provided. The student also does a fair amount of structured research, improving their skills as they discover ever more about this important problem.

Our World Problems Unit Courses are built to define humanity's greatest enemies. Each course then makes its target problem thoroughly understandable, and empowers the student to help solve that problem. If mankind is ever to grow into its maturity, if we're to survive, we must confront such shortcomings as religious intolerance. This begins with our children, who will help build a better, smarter, saner world than the one we live in today...if we give them the tools to do so.

The student will need access to the internet, a globe and an atlas (or internet atlas).

World Problems - TERRORISM

For students ages 11-adult, ready to confront one of the ugliest and most frightening phenomenon of our time. The 9/11 terror highlights the bitter truth, that no one can afford to not understand the problems and solutions to Terrorism , today.