Forty classroom activities selected from New Internationalist Calendars published between 1984-1989 were collected. Each activity is presented in the form of a short story about a real-life person and a graphic spread of data consisting of maps, tables, photographs, diagrams, text, and student exercises. These activities have been written to achieve the following objectives for development education: (1) to present knowledge about development issues to students in an attractive format; (2) to develop basic reading, comprehension, graph and picture interpretation and writing skills; (3) to promote critical thinking skills through the analysis and evaluation of a variety of types of information; (4) to promote an understanding of the development problems facing people in Third World countries, and empathy with people from different social, economic and cultural backgrounds; (5) to develop an appreciation of the interdependence between the lives of people in Australia and people facing a variety of similar and different development problems in other countries; (6) to develop decision making skills through the consideration of alternative approaches to development; and (7) to promote a willingness to become involved in seeking solutions to development problems. Topics include international trade, the global economic system, work, population growth, the family, health, food production, pesticides, water, ecology, tourism, urban drift, conservation, environmental issues, and technology. (KR)