Global Challenges and Futures · Term 4

Interconnected Global Challenges

Students analyze how various global issues like climate change, poverty, and migration are interconnected.

Key Questions

  1. Analyze how climate change exacerbates issues of poverty and migration.
  2. Explain the interconnectedness of global economic systems and environmental degradation.
  3. Predict the cascading effects of a major global challenge on other interconnected issues.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations

ON: Global Settlement: Patterns and Sustainability - Grade 8ON: Global Inequalities: Economic and Social - Grade 8CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.3
Grade: Grade 8
Subject: Geography
Unit: Global Challenges and Futures
Period: Term 4

Suggested Methodologies

Concept Mapping

Build visual maps of concept relationships

20–40 min

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World Café

Rotating small-group conversations that build on each other

30–50 min

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Problem-Based Learning

Tackle open-ended problems without predetermined solutions

35–60 min

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