Unit 4 - Global Social Challenges (20 hours)

  • Unit 4 - Global Social Challenges (20 hours)

    Unit Description 

    This unit will use the research and inquiry method to demonstrate an understanding of global social issues, with an emphasis on global inequalities resulting from social structures and conditions.  Students will locate data on global social structures that increase or limit global inequalities.  Students will locate data and analyze the impact of globalization on individuals and groups in society. Students will also use the research and inquiry method to understand exploitation and its impact of unfair or unjust exploitation of people or resources, locally and globally.  All research and learning will be connected to the 3 Disciplines of social studies, and the culminating project will be an oral thesis presentation fueled by the research/inquiry process on a selected topic of globalization or exploitation.

    Learning Goals
    Students will use the research and inquiry process to locate information on global inequalities to examine how various social structures and conditions support or limit global inequalities. Students will explore globalization through an Independent Study Oral Thesis and will assess the impact of globalization (political, environmental, social) on individuals and groups. Students will explore Exploitation and analyze its impact of unfair or unjust exploitation of people or resources, locally and globally.

    • Unit 4 Plan File

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    • Unit 4 Wiki Daily Log

      Think about your progress in Unit 4 and use the following questions to guide your answers on your Wiki Daily Log.

      1.  What have you learned about current and future daily patterns and trends relating to global social inequalities?  For example: healthcare, education, gender, natural resources, finances.

      2.  How are global social inequalities connected to the 3 disciplines and theories?  Explain.

      3.  What have you learned about possible solutions to global social inequalities?

      4.  What have you learned about the global protection of human rights? Do certain societies have better overall protection of human rights than others?  Explain.

      **150 words; Answer below in Moodle; Use today's date as your title