Global Issues Course Description
Global Issues is a single semester elective that explores the conditions facing the global community. The course is divided into six units and explores current issues, the causes, and the potential solutions to those issues. After students research current circumstances and conditions around the world, we will examine demographics & disease, environment & energy, economics & globalization, human rights, and geopolitics.
Google Slides: Final Template
Course Project: Global Issues Presentation Template.ppt
GRADING POLICY: All assignments and assessments are granted a numerical value. The score students receive is based on their accuracy, validity, and clarity of their responses. The cumulative value of all assignments and assessments in any given marking period may vary and the students' grades are determined by the points they've earned over the course of the marking period.
Unit 1 - Introduction & Country Studies
Unit 2 - Demographics & Disease
- Population Pyramids
- Nutrition Landscape: World Health Organization
- Food & Agriculture Organization: Country Indicators
- Hunger Around the World
- Our World in Data: Hunger & Undernourishment
- Gapminder World
- World Health Organization: Countries
- WHO: Global Health Observatory
- Pandemic Flu History
- Disease Outbreak News
- Food and Agriculture Organization: Interactive Hunger Map
Unit 3 - Environment & Energy
- Environment Statistics - Country Snapshots
- Human Footprint Interactive
- Ecological Personal Footprint Calculator
- Biocapacity Footprint
- United States of America Ecological Trends
- Breathing Earth
- CO2 Emissions Per Capita
- Climate Time Machine
- 67 Environmental Rules on the Way Out Under Trump
- Human Footprint SECOND TRY!