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Grade 9-12
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Lesson

World101: Globalization

Time: 60 mins,
Updated: September 27 2019,

Objective

Students will be able to:

  • Understand the benefits and challenges of our increasingly interconnected world through real-world examples.
  • Understand the global supply chain of medicine, learn how NAFTA has influenced avocado consumption, and examine two-hundred years of global communications.
Open Lesson

In this economics lesson, students will learn about global communications.

Description

This interactive lesson is filled with multimedia content like infographics, videos, and more. Display the lesson page on a projector screen and view the content as a class or distribute the URL to each student and have them interact with the page individually or in a group activity.

The growing interconnectedness of the world has both benefits and drawbacks. Understand the benefits and challenges of our increasingly interconnected world through real-world examples. We follow the global supply chain of medicine, explain how NAFTA has influenced avocado consumption, and break down two-hundred years of global communications.

World101 is a growing library of free multimedia content focused on teaching the fundamentals of international relations and foreign policy through entertaining, interactive storytelling techniques to an audience of non-specialists.

Subjects:
Civics/Government