Developed and
Developing
Countries
Global Village
Minds On
Canada’s ranking of quality of life
for 2013:
• 0.902 HDI
Are we a developed or
developing nation?
At a table group complete
worksheet: Comparing
Developed and Developing
Countries (BLM 3.2)
You have 5 minutes!
Global Village
• If we could shrink the earth’s
population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing
human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like this:
http://www.miniature-earth.com/
http://youtu.be/NvFsb5WHQ1U
Global Village
Ponder this:
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If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more fortunate
than the million who will not survive this week.
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If you have never experienced the danger of war, the loneliness of imprisonment,
the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation you are ahead of 500 million
people in the world.
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If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a
place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of this world.
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If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change someplace, you
are among the top 8% of the worlds wealthy.
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If you can read this message, you are more fortunate than over two billion people
in the world who cannot read at all.
Global Village
http://www.miniature-earth.com/
Respond to these questions in your social activist
log:
1. What information surprises you most?
2. What are you most grateful for as a citizen of
the global village?
3. What do you think of the term Global Village?
If you had to explain this term to someone
else, how would you describe it?
4. What can we “lucky” ones do?
5. Tweet about today’s lesson – did anything
surprise you?
Inquiry
• You will select a developing nation to study.
• You will work with an assigned partner.
• Refer to the map below in order to choose
your country (either red or orange).
Your Challenge
Step 1: Discover and research interesting facts about the developing nation that you have chosen to research (social,
political, economic, and physical aspects of the country).
Step 2: Present your findings in the form of 4 information posters that you will design and create (using Pic Collage).
Step 3: Design a postcard that features a key message/symbol about your nation. You will share this with other nations
at our International Tea Party!
What should each poster include?
• Title
• Visual images
• Words (point form)
• Symbols
• Fonts that show you’ve thought about your target
audience (your peers)
Your Challenge: Sharing your Posters at
our International Tea Party
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We will have a gathering of nations in
Canada
You and your partner will be the
Ambassadors of your nation (you will
mingle around the room, offer greetings
to other nations).
You will spend 5 minutes sharing
information with other groups as you
mingle. When the music stops each pair
will exchange a thank you and their
postards.
You will repeat the process again, however
with another pair.
We will finish our Tea Party with closing
remarks from Canada’s Ambassador
Timeline
1. Research – 2 to 3 periods
• Research your nation using books and internet resources,
recording things in your graphic organizers. Don’t forget to
record your sources of information on the sheets provided!
2. Poster creation – 2-3 periods
• You will use the app Pic Collage to create your posters (5 in
total – 1 title page, 4 info pages)
3. Postcard
• Design and create a postcard to give to other nations at the
International Tea Party