CGW 4UI

1. CGW 4UI Canadian and World Issues

2. Welcome Back! Itinerary For Day 1 • A bit about me • Course evaluation • Introduction activity • Course introduction

3. A Bit About Me • My 17th year as a teacher • The Bulmer family • Traveling

12. What’s high school for? What all students today should know to be successful, as suggested by the people that will (or won’t) hire you: • How to focus intently on a problem until it's solved • The benefit of postponing short-term satisfaction in exchange for long-term success • How to read critically • The power of being able to lead groups of peers without receiving clear delegated authority • An understanding of the extraordinary power of the scientific method, in just about any situation or endeavour • How to persuasively present ideas in multiple forms, especially in writing and before a group • Project management; self-management and the management of ideas, projects and people • Personal finance - understanding the truth about money and debt and leverage • An insatiable desire (and the ability) to learn more - forever • Understanding that relentless hard work can be applied to solve problems worth solving Posted by Seth Godin on May 06, 2011 http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/05/whats-high-school-for.html

13. Evaluation Term work (tests, quizzes, assignments)70% Culminating Unit Assignments (seminar, essay, exam)30% Total 100%

14. Tests It is expected that every student write all tests. Absences must be validated within 2 days of returning back to school. This follow up is the student’s responsibility. Missed tests will be written in MSIP. Don’t miss MSIP!

15. Attendance To succeed in any course, you must be in class. When you miss a class for any reason, it is your responsibility to: • Clear the absence with an attendance secretary • Get caught up on the notes from one of your classmates • Pick up extra handouts from the front of class • Use the web-site “kci.wrdsb.ca/geography” to get caught up on missed lessons and assignments

16. Google Drive This semester, all summative assessments will be submitted electronically. Each of you have a google docs account already set up for you. • Go to http://google.wrdsb.ca • Login with your PAL / School Connect login

17. You must create a “shareable” folder (call it something like John Doe – World Issues) that you share with my gmailbill_bulmer@googleapps.wrdsb.ca Your account: doej9753@googleapps.wrdsb.ca (similar to school connect login; first 4 last name, 1stfirst name, last 4 student #) • Use Google Drive get caught up on any missed lessons and assignments

18. What is where? Why there, and why care?

19. The course at a glance… “Each day, millions of people engage in a continuous hand to mouth struggle to find sufficient food to survive.”

23. “Millions of other people – those with safety nets of abundant food and adequate shelter and health care – have the privilege of pursuing a variety of leisure activities at the end of the work day.”

26. The course will be divided into six units: • Environmental Issues • Resource and Economic Issues • Food Issues • Cultural and Population Issues • Geopolitical Issues

27. Environmental Issues • climate change • pollution • earth, air, and water • Biodiversity

28. Resource Issues • Resource uses and abuses • Resource depletion • Sustainable development

29. Economic Issues • Stages of economic growth • Globalization • Industrialization • International organizations and treaties • Foreign debt

30. Food Issues • Causes and solutions to hunger • Distribution of food • Malnutrition, famine

31. Cultural and Population Issues • Global population growth • Causes/Solutions to the population issue • Inequity and the Rich/Poor Gap

33. Geopolitical Issues • Types of conflicts • Causes of conflicts • Solving conflicts • Arms reduction • Terrorism

35. Methods • We will be using a variety of approaches to acquire a foundation of knowledge on these issues. • Text (Facing The Future …. A bit of an old one + new digital flexbook) • Statistical Labs and Analysis (using a computer spreadsheet program like Microsoft Excel) • Technology • Video • Internet, iPads • Presentations • Guest Speakers • Field Trips ???

37. Our Focus… Think . Act. Change.

38. Think. Everything you do affects someone or something. From the clothes you wear to the mp3 player you purchase, think about what you are doing and how it impacts the environment or people in your community and around the world.

39. Act. If you don’t like a rule in the school, a law, a politician, poverty, AIDS, or war in a far away land, don’t just sit there and be idle like so many others in our society. DO something about it! “Breathing doesn’t determine being alive. It just tells others which body is ready for burial or not.”- an Australian Aboriginal

40. Change. The positive actions you exert on society will help to change the world for the better. One small, incremental step at a time adds up. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”-- Margaret Mead

41. Introduction Exercise: Imagine you are a first-class passenger on a spaceship hurling through space at 100,000 km/h.

42. Poisonous gases are leaking into sections of the aircraft and several passengers are dying from the fumes.

43. The water supply has been contaminated due to a breakdown in the ship's waste expulsion system.

44. Food supplies are running out.

45. Many passengers crowded into the economy section of the craft are seriously ill, and only a few of them are getting proper medical attention.

46. The spaceship has a self destruct system and increasing numbers of technologists - some mentally unstable - have gained access to the controls of the self destruct system.

47. What are the first things you would do (in order) to improve the situation on this spaceship? A. ____________________________ B. ____________________________ C. ____________________________

48. A World Issue - Defined The term world issue refers to a question, concern, or problem that affects many people around the world. There are usually at least two and, most often, multiple points of view on the situation.