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How did the seemingly simple act of domesticating of plants and animals lead to advanced civilizations that conquered, enslaved, stole, murdered …. and shaped our world today?

Tuesday Computer Lab Activity: World We Live In Topic Powerpoints

Sep 7, ’10 2:45 PM

In class today, we are working in groups to complete our research on our topics and prepare a brief powerpoint presentation for the class.  Your powerpoint will introduce your topic, and answer the 3 questions given to each group.  Each question will get one slide – therefore each powerpoint should be no more than 4 slides.

The purpose of your powerpoint is to summarize your main points, so keep your answers short and simple; do not write out an essay answer for each question.  See the below presentation for an example.

Geography presentation

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HW: Current Events article summary

Sep 3, ’10 2:40 PM

In class today we began our study of the world we live in.  We are doing so by identifying 10 major issues/topics that we see in today’s world, working in groups to become experts on a topic, and then teaching this topic to the class.

Here are the 10 themes in no particular order (I would add there are probably 1-2 more themes that we will identify throughout the year).  Underneath each topic you will find links that will help you to understand and summarize it.

1. Population

There are nearly 7 billion people on the earth today, nearly twice as many as there were just 45 years ago.  What does the rapid increase in world population mean for our future?

http://www.globalissues.org/issue/198/human-population

http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html

http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf

http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange2/current/lectures/human_pop/human_pop.html

2. Culture (traditions & language)

http://www.exploreandmore.org/world/default.htm

TSS – login and go to the upper right tab that read RESOURCES.  Click on the box that says culturegrams

3. Religion

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/religion

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/religion/

http://www.religioustolerance.org/var_rel.htm

4. Ethnicity & Race

http://www.diffen.com/difference/Ethnicity_vs_Race

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(classification_of_humans)

5. Politics

http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/

http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/

6. Industrialization & Development

http://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index

http://inventors.about.com/od/indrevolution/Industrial_Revolution.htm

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/eco_hum_dev_ind-economy-human-development-index

7. Urbanization

http://dictionary.kids.net.au/word/urbanization

http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/habitats/urban-threats2/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/world/06/urbanisation/html/urbanisation.stm

8. Agriculture

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/economy/farming/

http://www.kidspast.com/world-history/0261-agricultural-revolution.php

http://www.agr.state.il.us/kidspage/index.html

9. Economics

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/economy/

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/economics.htm

http://www.42explore2.com/econ.htm

10. Globalization

http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/gl/Globalization

http://geography.about.com/od/globalproblemsandissues/a/globalization.htm

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-globalization.htm

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wherewestand/reports/globalization/video-report/7/

For HW: Find 1 current events article related to your theme.  You will write a 2 paragraph summary on your article.  1st Paragraph will summarize what the article is about.  2nd Paragraph will summarize how this article relates directly to your topic.  The purpose of doing this is to begin to see how this topic, which seems vague and un-specific, actually is seen in our world today.

You can find a current events article through one of several ways:

  1. Browse a newspaper or magazine.  Cut out the article and include it with your summary.
  2. Go to google.com and search for your topic by name or use keywords that relate directly to your topic.  When you get the page of results, go to the top menu and click “News”.   Or just click here: http://news.google.com/
  3. Go to the Links page in the menu above.  The first category of links are titled “News”.  Any one of those sites will be full of current events articles that you can either browse, or try searching on those sites using their search bar, which is usually in the right hand corner of the site.
  4. If you have any questions at all, feel free to email me.  I will respond quickly.  You can also use the contact form on this website to contact me.
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Syllabus and Homework

Aug 26, ’10 8:43 PM

Below you will find the MWH 2010-2011 Syllabus and the first homework assignments.

HW: Write an autobiography.  At least one full page on notebook paper.  Due Wed. Sept. 1st

HW: Have parents email Mr. Martin jdmartin (at) bcps.k12.md.us  Due Sept. 3rd

HW: Read over Syllabus and sign review form with parents. Due Sept. 1st

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