1. Globalization What’s the upside and downside of globalization?
WG.7.D examine benefits and challenges of globalization, INCLUDING connectivity, standard of living, pandemics, and loss of local culture
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YSLETA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT
SOCIAL STUDIES INSTRUCTIONAL TEAM

2. Which words are you familiar with, and which do you not yet know?
Connectivity
Globalization
Pandemic
Standard of Living
Negative effect
Local culture
Benefit
Improved
Challenge

3. What changes come from globalization?
Connectivity

4. Is that a benefit or a challenge?
Connectivity

5. What changes come from globalization?
Improved Standard of Living

6. Is that a benefit or a challenge?
Middle: Women in Russia shopping in supermarket.
Top and Bottom: Two families in Kenya producing goods on mechanical sewing machines.
Improved Standard of Living

7. What changes come from globalization?
Pandemics

8. Is that a benefit or a challenge?
Pandemics

9. What changes come from globalization?
Top: Guarani woman in Paraguay sharing potato cultivation techniques with ethnographer
Middle: China restaurant serving dual cuisine.
Bottom: Aborigine elder women pass on the sand-story tradition.
Loss of local culture

10. Is that a benefit or a challenge?
Top: Guarani woman in Paraguay sharing potato cultivation techniques with ethnographer
Middle: China restaurant serving dual cuisine.
Bottom: Aborigine elder women pass on the sand-story tradition.
Loss of local culture

11. Let’s see what we know… Which are you ready to answer, and which do you need a peek?
Which of the following is a likely cause of improved standards of living around the world?
F environmentalism
G globalization
H political control
J planned economies
Which of the following is a benefit of globalization?
A pandemics
B increased standard of living
C loss of local culture
D widespread environmental impacts

12. F connectivity to others G loss of local culture
Let’s see what we know… Which are you ready to answer, and which do you need a peek?
Which of the following is a negative effect of globalization on the cultures of the world?
F connectivity to others
G loss of local culture
H higher standard of living
J local dependency

13. Talk to each other, and then talk to me…
WG.7.D examine benefits and challenges of globalization, INCLUDING connectivity, standard of living, pandemics, and loss of local culture
What’s the upside and downside of globalization?
Use the word wall words to answer.

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