1. Introduction: What Is Global Awareness?

2. Warm-Up Questions
CPS Questions (1 - 2)
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3. Overview
How global cultures and interactions impact relationships between different cultural groups
The significance of global economics, trade, and markets
How the effects of global growth raise environmental concerns over natural resources
How ethics, religion, poverty, wealth, and views of human rights influence people
How changes in technology and education influence the competition for jobs
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4. Quick Write What do you think you might be doing
four years after finishing high school?
Describe the cultures you might interact
with and how they differ from yours.
(Note to teacher: Use “Pick a Student “ button in CPS)
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5. Global Cultures, Interactions, and Relationships
Culture includes language, ideas, beliefs, customs, codes, institutions, tools, techniques, works of art, rituals and ceremonies, among other elements
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Melanie Stetson Freeman / © 2007 The Christian Science Monitor

6. Global Cultures, Interactions, and Relationships, cont.
Nine of the most influential civilizations from the past and the present are:
Chinese
Mughal Indian
Mesopotamian
Egyptian
Greek
Roman
Arabian
Native American
Western European
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Robert Harbison / © 2006 The Christian Science Monitor

7. Global Cultures, Interactions, and Relationships, cont.
Shared culture affects relationships between people:
A lack of cultural understanding can be a big factor
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Andy Nelson / © 2003 The Christian Science Monitor

8. Global Economics, Trade, and Markets
Economics is the study of the production and distribution of goods and services, and their management.
Mark Sappenfield / © 1997 The Christian Science Monitor

9. Global Economics, Trade, and Markets, cont.
Four stages of economic development:
Hunting, pastoral, agricultural, industrial
Four major economic
systems:
Feudalism
Mercantilism
Capitalism
Communism
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Peter Ford / © 2006 The Christian Science Monitor

10. Global Economics, Trade, and Markets, cont.
Trade or commerce is the buying and selling of goods and services. Some trade is barter, but most traders use money
World Trade Agreements include:
WTO EU
NAFTA
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Melanie Stetson Freeman / © 1997 The Christian Science Monitor

11. Environmental Concerns, Natural Resources, and Global Growth
Rachel Carson wrote The Silent Spring in 1962
The need for resources can lead to tension and war; oil has been at the center of conflicts for the past few decades
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Robert Harbison / © 2003 The Christian Science Monitor

12. Ethics, Religion, Poverty, Wealth, and Human Rights
Worldviews affect
attitudes
Foreign aid helps the
poor in other countries
Human Rights
Self-determination is the principle that the people of a particular territory should decide how it is to be governed
Robert Harbison / © 1991 The Christian Science Monitor
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13. Technology, Education and the Competition for Jobs
There are effects of education on culture and development
Literacy rates are a good index of a country’s overall success
Outsourcing impacts development
Outsourcing – the procurement of goods and services from an outside supplier
Melanie Stetson Freeman / © 2003 The Christian Science Monitor
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14. Learning Check
CPS Questions (3 - 4)
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15. Activity 1: Global Awareness Vocabulary Review
Fill in the answers to the
crossword puzzle
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16. Activity 2: The Impact of Global Communication and Trade
Imagine this situation: You are eating breakfast at home one morning. The front page of the newspaper states: All of the ports and airports in the U.S. have closed down.
All means of communication (TV, Internet, radio, etc.) with the outside world have been cut off.
The government has announced that we will have to survive in this country for the next few months on what we produce ourselves. There will be no imports or exports of any kind.
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17. Activity 2: The Impact of Global Communication and Trade, cont.
1. If you were in this situation, what impact
would these events have on you?
What products and services would you have
to do without?
3. How well do you think you and your family could manage?
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18. Activity 3: Future Global Issues
1. Do you think the global issues discussed in this lesson will still be issues in 10 years?
2. What do you think will be the top global issue in 10 years?
3. Why?
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19. Technology Enrichment: Global Awareness Web Scavenger Hunt
1. Where is the headquarters of the WTO?
2. How many countries are members of the WTO?
3. In what civilization did coffee originate as a beverage?
4. What is the world’s population today?
5. What is the population of the U.S. today?
Bonus Question: According to the World Bank, 16 of the world’s 20 most polluted cities are in what country?
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20. Review
Culture includes language, ideas, beliefs, customs, codes, institutions, tools, techniques, works of art, rituals and ceremonies, among other elements
Four major economic systems are: Feudalism, Mercantilism, Capitalism, Communism
Trade, or commerce, is the buying and selling of goods and services
World Trade Agreements include NAFTA, the European Union, and the World Trade Organization
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21. Review, cont.
Rachel Carson wrote The Silent Spring in 1962 to show the damage chemicals and pesticides can do
Foreign aid is most effective when it goes to people “on the ground” rather than governments
A current global issue is global rights
Literacy rates are a good index of a country’s overall success
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22. Review Questions
CPS Questions (5 - 6)
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23. Summary
How global cultures and interactions impact relationships between different cultural groups
The significance of global economics, trade, and markets
How the effects of global growth raise environmental concerns over natural resources
How ethics, religion, poverty, wealth, and views of human rights influence people
How changes in technology and education influence the competition for jobs
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24. Next…. Done—introduction: what is global awareness?
Next—the Middle East: an introduction
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Melanie Stetson Freeman / © 1998 The Christian Science Monitor