Right Now: Refugee Awareness

According to the United Nations, World Refugee Day, held every year on June 20th, commemorates the strength, courage and perseverance of millions of refugees. Rock Your World is proud to introduce a new series of lessons and enrichment about Refugees and Immigrants created by recent graduates of Iowa Big, an initiative-based high school. 

Learn more about the students who authored this series below.
Grace Duffy Lead Curriculum Developer

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Grace Duffy
Lead Curriculum Developer
Elizabeth McDermott Lead Curriculum Developer

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Elizabeth McDermott
Lead Curriculum Developer
Bailey Swartzendruber Team Member
Bailey Swartzendruber
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Vanessa Sanchez Team Member

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Vanessa Sanchez
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Ava Klopfenstein Team Member

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Ava Klopfenstein
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Frank Manzi Team Member

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Frank Manzi
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Roderick Phillip Team Member

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Roderick Phillip
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Dennis Becker Advisor

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Dennis Becker
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Curriculum Enrichment Lessons
Lesson 1 - Words Matter: Distinguishing Between the Words Refugee and Immigrant
Lesson 2 - Beyond the Language of Migration, Word Art
Lesson 3 - Refugee Stories: Direct from the Source
Lesson 4 - Intro to the Worldwide Refugee Crisis: Seeing 
is Believing