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Warm UpIf you could solve any current world problem, which would you choose
and why?
ACT Word: Emigrate (v): To eave one’s place of residence or country
to live elsewhere.
Agenda
• Current Events• Notes with Videos on Current Issues • How do we fix Environmental Issues? • Globalization Pros and Cons • Reflection
Goal!
• SWBAT evaluate how globalization has impacted world issues by reading about current issues.
Where are your clothes from??
• You have two post-it notes, look at 2 items of clothing you have and stick it on the spot on the map where your clothing item is from.
Current Events: Should we care about global issues? How do they impact us? • What is the history of the Syrian conflict?
• Currently what is still going on?
What is globalization?
• The exchange and interaction of ideas, culture, trade, etc around the world
What do you notice in the following pictures?
What are social challenges?
• Human rights abuses: slavery, torture– NGO: nongovernmental
organization works to prevent these
• Poverty: having a very small amount of money; varies from country to country– Often results in famines:
shortage of food• Disease: – Epidemic: contagious
disease that spreads rapidly and affects many people
– Ex. HIV/AIDS
Would you visit this place?
Social challenges continued:
Natural disastersEx tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanesPopulation movement:Ex. Refugees: people who flee violence from their country into another countryUrbanization: people moving to cities-creates slums
What can we do to improve these social issues?
How are we affecting our environment? • Deforestation:
clearing of trees• Pollution: harmful
contaminant released into environment (impure, shouldn’t be there)
What are these environmental problems and how can we fix them? • Three main problems in Latin American. Read about
issue and complete the following chart. 5 minutes with each station.
Environmental Issue Where? What is happening? (4 important details)
How can they fix it?
What new technology connects the world?
• Space exploration• Internet• Cloning:
creating identical organisms
What are threats to world security?
• Terrorist attacks• Weapons of mass
destruction – Example:
chemical warfare, atomic bombs
• Ethnic and religious conflict
• (To be continued tomorrow…)
Is globalization a good or bad thing? How does it effect us socially and
economically? • Read the text following text with your partner.
Alternating who reads a paragraph. • 1st: identify what the article is about. • 2nd: create a “T-chart” in your notebook, with the
benefits and costs of globalization. • 3rd: Evaluate is globalization ultimately good or bad?
(discuss with your partner, you may disagree, which is OK! )
Reflection
• Of the worlds conflicts discussed today, what do you think is the most pressing issue?
• Write a letter to the world leaders persuading them as to why they should care about that issue and what are some possible solutions.
• ~1 pg.