Model UN Winter Course Outline

Model UN Winter Course Outline

 

Day One (Thursday)

1. We will discuss environmental problems throughout the world.
   
2. You will be assigned your countries.
   
3. You will be paired up with another student.
   
4. We will see some movie clips and read look for news articles about global warming.
   

 

Day Two (Friday)

1. Begin to research.
   
2. You will create a country profile.
   
   1. follow the country profile outline
      
3. Complete the worksheet about your country
   
   1. This will help you figure out where your country stands on the issue and who your "friends" will be during the conference.
      
4. When you finish that, begin writing a position paper.
   
   1. follow the position paper outline
      
   2. make sure you cite your sources.
      
   3. Use the following sources…
      
      1. Internet
         
      2. Magazine
         
      3. Speeches from youtube.com
         

 

Day Three (Wednesday)

1. You and your partner will finish researching how climate change and other environmental problems are affecting the world.
   
2. You and your partner will also finish writing a position paper
   
   1. follow the position paper outline
      
   2. make sure you cite your sources.
      
   3. I also suggest that you split up the research to save time.
      
3. After you write your position paper, write out a caucus outline
   
   1. A caucus outline will help you prepare what you will say during the caucus part of the conference
      
4. After you do that, write out your opening remarks that you will make during the conference.
   
   1. Each person in your group must read half of the speech.
      
   2. Read loudly and confidently.
      
   3. Don't give out any plans or strategy during this speech. Just tell everyone what you think about the problem.
      

 

Day Four (Thursday)

1. You and your partner must finalize your plan and figure out what you are going to do for the conference.
   
2. As a class we will have an overview of what will happen during the conference.
   
3. Make sure you have…
   
   1. a position to fight for
      
   2. a position paper
      
   3. a caucus outline
      
   4. a plan
      

 

Day Five (Friday)

1. CONFERENCE
   
   1. Open Conference
      
      1. Chair will take role to see who is at the committee and we will begin.
         
   2. Opening Remarks
      
      1. Each country will read its' opening remarks.
         
         1. This should take no longer that two minutes.
            
   3. Caucus
      
      1. Each group member runs around the room and talks to other countries and tries to persuade them to vote for your resolution.
         
   4. Debate
      
      1. Each country makes arguments in front of the entire committee
         
   5. Write Resolutions
      
      1. Write out a plan of how to fix the problem
         
      2. Remember that you will need other countries to vote for it later.
         
   6. Vote
      
      1. Each coutry has one vote.
         
      2. In order for a resolution to pass, it needs 50% +1 of the countries to vote for it.
         
   7. Close Conference
      
      1. Bye bye!
         
   8. Awards
      
      1. Certain people will receive awards.
         

 

Country Assignments

Person	Position
Eric	CHAIR
Kelly and Julia	United States
Murielle and Judy	Nigeria
Danny and Joseph	Maldives
Catherine and Junior	Kuwait
Tiffany and Sabina	Bangladesh
Jason and Dean	Denmark
Lynn and Erin	Bolivia
Liam and Benny	China
Christine and Sarah	Indonesia
Peggy and Rebecca	Burkina Faso
Sebastian and Roger	Singapore

"If you have to compromise, compromise up."

Eleanor Roosevelt