1. Students will understand the main political and economic systems of the world.
direct democracy-people get to vote for themselves and make decisions,Represenative democracy-people elect reprasenatives to make decisions and make laws for them,comunisim-karl marx theory is the lower class will overthrow the uper class and it will be a utopia the practice one person or a small group controls the goverment and every thing,capitalism-wher the people own the buisenesses and run them, socialism-wher the goberm=nment wons the buisnesses,Constitutional monarchy-wher the royal family is in charge but have to abide by a constitution,Absolute monarchy-absence of a government
2. Students will understand the differences between the major political parties in the United States.
the two are democrat-liberal and belive in a large go=vernment and republic-conservative belive in less government interferince
3. Students will understand the causes and effects of global warming.
causes-carbon dioxide and other gases like methane effects-ice caps are melting faster and the water levelses are rising, the sinking of islands, the spreading of disseases
4. Students will understand the causes and effects of overpopulation.
causes-people having more babies because they are not educated or do not have avalible birth control and contraceptives effects-croweded areas, the people cant live of the resources avaliable in an area, people die fo disseas or starve in some places
5. Students will understand the impact of globalization.
the world has been able to come to gether and coperate together a lot easier
6. Students will be able to locate major countries of the world.
7. Students will be able to explain their understanding of recent current events(Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Darfur, Rwanda, Somalia).
iraq-we went in because of nuclear wepons, troops are still there hopefuly going to get them out soon Afghanistan-we went in because of 9/11 and we got good information that al-queda was responsible and that is where they are, also killed osama binladen their leader Iran-thaught they had wepons of mass destruction Somalia-# one failed state, they have monarchy there, a failed state is where the government losses control
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