Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Social Studies

Canadian Geographic and CIDA have a map which will be a central part of our lessons in the mini unit, "Looking at Wealth Distribution in the World". This unit focuses on concepts in Interdependence and the role Canada has in helping developing countries.

To access the interactive map, "A Developing World", click on the following link or copy/paste it into your window browser.

http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/worldmap/cida/cidaworldmap.aspx

"3 PLUS U" LESSON IN GLOBAL ECONOMICS
Another site we will be viewing is one from cyberschoolbus. This activity will explore Global Economies, child labour, forced labour and discrimination. You will need earphones and paper/pencil for jotnotes.
Here is the address to copy/paste into your browser window:
http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/3PLUSU/index.html