A look at global civic responsibilities and how organizations and individuals can be responsible global citizens. This useful video was created by an Alberta teacher for Social Studies 10.
A look at the social issues that globalization creates in developing nations. This useful video was created by an Alberta teacher for Social Studies 10.
A look at the responsibilities of global stewardship and a consideration of what can be done to be environmentally responsible consumers. This useful video was created by an Alberta teacher for Social Studies 10.
Education can play a central role in building the resilience, knowledge and analytical skills needed to “pre-bunk” and debunk conspiracy theory narratives, including through media and information literacy. This UNESCO report is an introduction for educators, working in and outside of formal schooling, on how to identify, prevent and address conspiracy theories.
What would society look like if the world was 100 people? This 2:27 minute video shares the breakdown of several factors including who has access to clean water, who controls the money, languages spoken and more.
The Social Progress Index is a new way to define the success of our societies. It is a comprehensive measure of real quality of life, independent of economic indicators. The Social Progress Index is designed to complement, rather than replace, economic measures such as GDP.
You’ve filled up your cart and made it to the front of the grocery line when you’re confronted with yet another choice: what kind of bag should you use? It might seem obvious that plastic is bad for the environment, and that a paper bag or a cotton tote would be the better option. But is that really true?
An examination of the impacts on globalization on poverty in developing nations. This useful video was created by an Alberta teacher for Social Studies 10.
In this video, John discusses the three myths at the center of Bill and Melinda Gates's 2013 annual letter:
1. Poor countries are NOT doomed to remain poor.
2. Foreign aid is NOT a waste of money.
3. Saving children's lives does NOT lead to overpopulation.
Bill Gates and John Green discuss progress in Ethiopia, designing technologies for poor countries, improving childhood nutrition, the blessings and limitations of capitalism, and Ethiopia's road to achieving middle-income status by 2025.
This map is designed to provide a glimpse of some of the challenges in developing countries and the progress made toward achieving five of the MDGs. It uses the United Nations Development Programme's human development index (HDI) to show which countries have achieved high levels of development.
Refugee Flow is an interactive data visualization project that "examines one of the direct fundamental causes of the global refugee crisis, the collapse of order and stability in today's international landscape."
Track world hunger with this downloadable hunger map from the World Food Programme. The map is colour-coded to show the prevalence of undernourishment in the population (percent).
Poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality: The world faces many great and terrifying problems at the same time: it is these large problems that our work at Our World in Data focuses on.
On the first page of the interactive, select different countries or regions to see how consumption patterns have changed in the last 50 years. Click on the "Meat Consumption" tab at the top to interact with the charts to see how each country or region's meat-eating patterns have evolved.
Playing this game is a great brain exercise and benefits someone afflicted by severe poverty. As you play, 20 grains of rice are donated for each correct answer. Move beyond vocabulary; change subjects if your specialty is math, literature or geography.
