To our Global Village!
This wiki is dedicated to all the hungry, poor, homeless, and unhappy of the world,
to show you that you are not alone.
- Anonymous
Hello, Ciao, Konichiwa, Hola, Bonjour!
We are a class of 5th graders who have been studying world conditions. The global village consists of 100 people (1 person = 64 million) who represent the demographics of the real Earth.
Our global village was inspired by David J. Smith's book, If the World Were a Village, illustrated by Shelagh Armstrong. In this book, Smith took the entire population of the world and reduced it to a village of 100. Each of the 100 people in the village equals 64 million real people! In the book he wrote about the different living conditions of the people living in the Global Village. Still wondering how we got the name of our wiki? We hope not. All of the kids in our class split up into groups to make the different pages on our website about the things David Smith said in his book. We took information from If the World Were a Village as well as other sources our class has found.
Enjoy our site!
To see our pages, take a look at the SideBar to the top right. If you don't see it, click Here.
(This is just a link to the page, it will not do anything to your computer.)
Comments (Show all 59)
May said
at 12:03 pm on Feb 13, 2008
Wow! I'm really impressed!
Gary Falgout said
at 11:28 am on Feb 14, 2008
The pages are starting to come together. It is looking really good. Your comments should give more details. Also, it is very important that YOU LOG OUT each time or your name will stay in the edit page and anyone can change content under your name.
Bennett said
at 11:39 am on Feb 14, 2008
This is an awesome page!
The Global Religions Team said
at 11:40 am on Feb 14, 2008
Check out the Religions page!
Andrea Bittle said
at 11:48 pm on Feb 14, 2008
Looking good everyone. Amazing how this has come together. Your hard work is really paying off. The pollution page could use some research if you want to help. Global solutions could always use help. Should the Heifer Project be mentioned?
Andrea Bittle said
at 11:49 pm on Feb 14, 2008
Is anyone ready to kick off books around the world with a brief book summary/review? Prob. need an easy format,
title, author, country, time period (present, historical), few sentence summary, etc.
May said
at 9:43 am on Feb 15, 2008
I can! I read my book in one day!
Andrea Bittle said
at 10:44 pm on Feb 27, 2008
Anyone know of any good sources for quotations?
The Languages Dude (peet) said
at 9:22 am on Mar 7, 2008
Somebody should checkk the spelling of "shelagh armstrong" as the illustrator of the book. it doesn't look right. It is in the paragraph near the bottom. Thanks!
The Languages Dude (peet) said
at 11:28 am on Mar 7, 2008
I checkked it and it's right. so dont change it. Thanks anyway!
naim said
at 8:59 am on Mar 8, 2008
For quotations there is a site called www.thinkexist.com that has some good quotes.
rebecca said
at 11:08 am on Apr 23, 2008
The graph of the population is awesome, it tell me a lot of information, and I learn a lot too
snoopy said
at 11:11 am on Apr 23, 2008
The map of the world was awesome! It was really interesting to show the amount of light around the earth. It shows how our country is incredibly lucky with how much technology/lighting we have compared to other country's like Africa.
joe said
at 12:07 pm on Sep 18, 2008
This is a fabulous page. Great job!
John said
at 12:52 pm on Dec 9, 2008
I was surprised that this website was only made by kids, It's awesome!!
Mia said
at 5:54 pm on Dec 17, 2008
I know!!!!!
lee said
at 3:17 pm on Jan 15, 2009
I am surprised at how many people die from malaria each year,this is the coolest website ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
chandler said
at 3:21 pm on Jan 15, 2009
I am going to enjoy your class
chandler said
at 3:22 pm on Jan 15, 2009
this website is so cool
priyan said
at 7:38 pm on Jan 15, 2009
I was surprised about how many people die from measels
daniela said
at 12:49 pm on Jan 16, 2009
i Really like this website because it gives you a lot of nowledge that you probably didn't know
daniela said
at 12:53 pm on Jan 16, 2009
i didn't know that so many people did not have food,i will now live on a diet of coffee and potatoes
lee Folger said
at 12:55 pm on Jan 16, 2009
i really like this website because:it tells u a lot of stuff about the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lee Folger said
at 12:57 pm on Jan 16, 2009
I AM VERY IMPRESSED BY THE FORMER 5TH GRADERS
Jinny Gui said
at 1:02 pm on Jan 16, 2009
How did the 5th graders do a background like that so cool.
nyawira said
at 4:46 pm on Jan 16, 2009
are we going to get to do this?
Jinny said
at 1:54 pm on Jan 18, 2009
How did they put a logo?
~Jinny
teddy said
at 12:43 pm on Jan 22, 2009
i wonder how many people have houses.
teddy said
at 12:49 pm on Jan 22, 2009
i think america is a utopia.
evan said
at 12:53 pm on Jan 22, 2009
i am in dystopia
chandler said
at 12:58 pm on Jan 22, 2009
Are we aloud to put more than 1 letter in a word with only 1. Heres an example:
cooooooooool
teddy said
at 1:00 pm on Jan 22, 2009
that book is so cool.
chandler said
at 1:00 pm on Jan 22, 2009
I love your class.
chandler said
at 12:33 pm on Jan 23, 2009
why are their not so much horses and so many chickens?
teddy said
at 3:17 pm on Jan 26, 2009
why are there more chickens than people?
chandler said
at 12:58 pm on Jan 29, 2009
how did you make the welcome sign spin like that? I really think its cool
chandler said
at 1:00 pm on Jan 29, 2009
why did evan say he is in dystopia?
chandler said
at 12:51 pm on Jan 30, 2009
if you go to google and type endangered animals you can hear animal noises
chandler said
at 1:07 pm on Jan 30, 2009
i love this website. it rocks
nyawira said
at 12:41 pm on Jan 31, 2009
quit writing funky comments.
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