Lesson Three

Intro - Globalization and Sustainability

Key Issues
To what extent has the expansion of economic globalization affected people's lives?
How are globalization and sustainability related?
Have efforts to promote sustainability been successful?

Within this lesson students will have the opportunity to explore various understandings of sustainability. Students will also discover the relationship between sustainability and the ecological footprints of Canada and other countries. For example, as students investigate activities such as global shipping and shipbreaking industries they will learn how globalization affects sustainability.

Lesson

U3L3 Power Point

Watch the following tutorial 

 "There is a water crisis today. But the crisis is not about having too little water to satisfy our needs. It is a crisis of managing water so badly that billions of people - and the environment - suffer badly."
         World Water Vision Report

Assignment

Open the following Ecological Footprint document and label it SS10U3L3.surname.
In this document, complete sections 1 and 2 (you are only required to submit section 2) USE THE LINKS HERE IN MOODLE AND NOT ON THE WORD DOC.
Submit this assignment using the Assignment Folder for U3L3 Eco Footprint.

Resources:

Ship Breaking in Bangladesh   (read the article and watch the video)

Ecological Footprint

Conclusion

Within this lesson, students have explored ways that globalization affects sustainability through the study of ship breaking and ecological footprints. They will continue to expand their understanding of sustainability in the next lesson.

                                        During your time on Earth, live simply so that others may simply live.