Warm Up If 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.

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.