Lesson 34 of 84 · Global Connections
⭐ 30 XP🌍 World StageThe United Nations
The United Nations, founded in 1945, brings 193 member nations together to maintain peace, protect human rights, and promote cooperation on global challenges like poverty and climate change.
🎯 Your mission
Think like a global citizen.
⚡ The twist
Big problems need both big solutions and small ones.
Mind = Blown
🤯 The internet was first turned on in 1969 with just 4 computers.
Then & Now
🌐 This is on the news right now somewhere on Earth.
The United Nations, founded in 1945, brings 193 member nations together to maintain peace, protect human rights, and promote cooperation on global challenges like poverty and climate change.
Key Facts
The UN has 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
The United Nations has 193 member nations.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted in 1948.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 2What is a refugee?
Why this still matters
Pick any product in your home. Trace where it came from. Be amazed.
Stretch Challenge
Try this in real life this week.
Read one news headline and ask: who is helped, who is hurt?
For the dinner table
“What's one problem you wish the whole world would work together on?”
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The United Nations
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