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World101: Globalization

Time: 60 mins,
Updated: September 27 2019,
Author: , The Council on Foreign Relations
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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.

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State Standards

Concepts

Benefits of Trade, Goods and Services, Trade, Exchange and Interdependence
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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

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