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9th grade · Social Studies · Unit 12 of 13

Our Connected World

Globalization, conflict and the environment

What your child practices

Conflicts of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, economic interdependence and globalization, and how people and the environment affect each other today.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 9.16; 9.17; 9.18 · recent conflicts, globalization, and people and the environment today

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Economies are linked by trade and finance, so a problem in one spreads fast. Multinationals work in many countries; outsourcing moves work abroad.
  2. Climate change comes mainly from greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels.
  3. Deforestation is cutting down large areas of forest, like rainforest.

Example: What is a multinational corporation? “Multi” means many. It is a company that operates in many countries. Answer: a company that operates in many countries

Our Connected World in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 12 of 13 in 9th grade Social Studies, after The End of Empires and before Revolution to Today.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Why can a problem in one country's economy now affect others quickly?

    • Money is not used
    • Each economy is isolated
    • Economies are linked by trade and finance
    • Countries do not trade

  2. Question 2

    Cutting down large areas of rainforest is called…

    • urbanization
    • irrigation
    • globalization
    • deforestation

  3. Question 3

    One criticism of globalization is that it can…

    • make every country the same size
    • stop the internet
    • end all trade
    • move jobs away from some communities

  4. Question 4

    The Arab Spring (2010–2012) was a wave of…

    • elections in Europe
    • sports events
    • protests against governments in the Middle East and North Africa
    • trade fairs

  5. Question 5

    The World Trade Organization works to…

    • command armies
    • run the UN
    • print money
    • set rules for trade between countries

  6. Question 6

    A civil war is a conflict…

    • between sports teams
    • between two empires
    • between groups within one country
    • between planets

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