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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.

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Comments (Show all 59)

Wow! I'm really impressed!

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.

This is an awesome page!

Check out the Religions page!

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?

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.

I can! I read my book in one day!

Anyone know of any good sources for quotations?

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!

I checkked it and it's right. so dont change it. Thanks anyway!

For quotations there is a site called www.thinkexist.com that has some good quotes.

The graph of the population is awesome, it tell me a lot of information, and I learn a lot too

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.

This is a fabulous page. Great job!

I was surprised that this website was only made by kids, It's awesome!!

I know!!!!!

I am surprised at how many people die from malaria each year,this is the coolest website ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am going to enjoy your class

this website is so cool

I was surprised about how many people die from measels

i Really like this website because it gives you a lot of nowledge that you probably didn't know

i didn't know that so many people did not have food,i will now live on a diet of coffee and potatoes

i really like this website because:it tells u a lot of stuff about the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I AM VERY IMPRESSED BY THE FORMER 5TH GRADERS

How did the 5th graders do a background like that so cool.

are we going to get to do this?

How did they put a logo?

~Jinny

i wonder how many people have houses.

i think america is a utopia.