Week 16 - Animation Concept

What is the Global Issues concept in your flash animation? Please describe

Week 15: Against All Odds - Refugees

Play Against All Odds, an interactive online game that teaches you about what it is like to be a refugee:

http://www.playagainstallodds.com/

Post a comment about what you learned or how you felt about Against All Odds. Comment on one peers posting.

Week 14: Country Profile - Haiti

Play the online game, The Cost of Life, for at least 20 minutes to learn what it is like to live in Haiti: http://costoflife.ning.com. Answer the questions below and comment on one peer's posting.

Why might access to education be a challenge in another country?

What factors would make it easier for the children in the game to gain access to
education? What conditions could be changed and how?

Week 13 - Countries

As you gather information about global issues in different countries for your database, share something interesting and unique about one country and comment on a peer's posting.

Week 12 - Human Rights

Basic human rights, that we take for granted, are currently being violated all over the world. Take a look at the following website: http://www.hrw.org/en/home (Human Rights Watch) and describe one of the violations. Also, comment on one of your peer's posting.

Week 11: What keeps you from doing something about Global Issues?

There are a lot of things that we can do to make a positive change, even if it is small. Talk about a global issue that you could do something about but don't. What are the obstacles? Comment on one peer's posting.

Example: I could recycle more at my house

Obstacles: Time, effort, Trash pickup does not recycle and there is no dump in Carver

Week 10

What do you think is the most important global issue of today? Post your thoughts.
Give suggestions to 2 peers on what we can do as individuals to improve the issue they suggested.

Week 9 Food Inc.

What is something new you learned from watching Food Inc. Post a comment and comment on one other peer's posting.

Week 8

Go to the EPA website and take a look at the table that explains extreme events that could be caused by global warming.

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/effects/extreme.html

What are some extreme events that could occur? Do you see any evidence in the last few years that these things are already starting to occur? What can we do to slow down the process?

Week 7

USA Obesity Rates Reach Epidemic Proportions
58 Million Overweight; 40 Million Obese; 3 Million morbidly Obese
Eight out of 10 over 25's Overweight
78% of American's not meeting basic activity level recommendations
25% completely Sedentary
76% increase in Type II diabetes in adults 30-40 yrs old since 1990

Source: http://www.annecollins.com/obesity/statistics-obesity.htm

What is the problem? How can we solve it?

Respond to these questions and one of your peer's postings.

Global Statistics

Government workers, statiticians, market researchers, and educational researchers study statistics about populations to understand relationships between factors. You will be doing some research in excel to compare some statistics in 10 countries. For example, you may want to look at the following statistics that you think are related:

Obesity rate:
Life expectancy:
Consumption of soda:
# of Mcdonalds per capita:
Average income:

What are 2 of the statistics that you will be researching?

Why do you think they are related?

Human Trafficking - Week 5

Slavery still exists in the modern world. In 2001, the FBI estimated that 700,000 women and children were sold to slavery, UNICEF estimated 1.75 million, and the UN estimated 1 million (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/slaves/etc/stats.html). These figures vary widely since everything is done secretly and unlawfully, so it is difficult to come up with numbers.

Find 2 facts on reliable government (.gov) or organizational (.org) websites and post the websites and facts on the blog. Reflect on a minimum of one other person's posting.

Pollution and Climate Change

What diseases and/or conditions do you think may be caused by pollution? Post a reliable and credible website address from which you got the information. Comment on one other student's posting.

Powerpoint on Global Issue

What is the issue that you are covering?
What are 2 surprising facts that you have learned so far?
Comment on 1 other peer's posting.

Possible Solutions - Week 2

What are some things that we can do individually to help those in extreme poverty? What could we do as a group to help end hunger? Please brainstorm 2 original ideas and comment on at least 1 peer's idea. Be creative.

Hunger and Poverty - Week 1

Please post 2 unique facts that you have discovered about hunger and poverty. Also post a comment relating to two of your peers postings. You should have 2 postings by the end of the week.