Jan 28 2026 Double Block Thursday How Do We Learn & Intro to Environment & Climate Unit - Text Pages 108-11 Review - Intro to Globalization


Attendance

Updated Seating Plan - to remain.

Lesson – How we learn?


Learning Styles - Review -
Kinesthetic
Auditory
Visual
Reading/Writing


Review of Teams - Intro Assignment - Bio/Learning Style Paragraph. How to find, open, complete and submit on Teams. 


1. Task: Bio Paragraph Assignment: Teams Assign 1.

*Once you are done with Assign 1 read Page 108-111 in your text. 


2. Reading of Text - Page 108-111 Globalization 
TEXT REVIEW: Ch 4 Page 108 Text - Globalization

Completion of definitions - Terms pg 109 - look to glossary at the back with exception of NGO - pg 114 & recession pg 115. 

Extension - to read ahead to page 120.

3. Yesterday - review of viewing:
How Advertising Rewires Kids' Brains

4. Review yesterday - discussion - Activity: Brainstorm - where do you feel that you are advertised to the most? Social Media? Friends? TV Shows/Movies? 
Discussion.

5. Continue . . .Globalization - Environment & Climate Unit - 

First - What Is Consumerism? Discussion.

Read together as a class pages 108 and 109 - review bullet pointed discussion questions. 


Review: 'Looking Ahead' & 'Learning Goals' section. 

6. Viewing of 

A rich life with less stuff | The Minimalists | TEDxWhitefish


*Class Discussion

 AFTER VIDEO REVIEW - GROUP WORK!

1.    SUMMARIZE THE PURPOSE OF THIS VIDEO in 20 WORDS OR LESS:   


2.    IDENTIFY AND EXPLAIN THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY THIS PURPOSE WAS CONVEYED.

 

3.    IS THERE ANYTHING FROM THE VIDEO THAT YOU WOULD CONSIDER TAKING AWAY AND IMPLEMENTING WITHIN YOUR OWN LIFE? WHY OR WHY NOT?


Discussion re: Above questions. 


Extension Discussion - What can we do to minimize our consumerism & also work to support and take care of our finite planet. 



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