Critical Challenge: Globalization and Free Market Conditions

Specific Outcomes

This critical challenge may address these outcomes:

Curriculum Outcomes Addressed: 10-1

Specific Outcome 3.1	-	Students will recognize and appreciate multiple perspectives that exist with respect to the relationships among politics, the environment and globalization (GC, ER, PADM)
Specific Outcome 3.2	-	Students will recognize and appreciate impacts of globalization on the interdependent relationships that exist among the economy, people and the environment (GC, ER, PADM)
Specific Outcome 3.3	-	Students will explore understandings of contemporary economic globalization (GC, ER)
Specific Outcome 3.4	-	Students will examine the foundations of contemporary globalization (F. A. Hayek, Bretton Woods Conference, Milton Friedman) (TCC PADM, ER)
Specific Outcome 3.5	-	Students will analyze factors contributing to the expansion of globalization since the Second World War (international agreements, international organizations, transnational corporations, media and transportation technologies) (TCC, GC, ER, PADM)
Specific Outcome 3.6	-	Students will analyze political and economic challenges and opportunities of globalization (trade liberalization, foreign investment, economic growth, privatization, outsourcing, knowledge economy) (ER, PADM, GC)
Specific Outcome S.1.8	-	Students will assemble seemingly unrelated information to support an idea or to explain an event
Specific Outcome S.1.9	-	Students will analyze current affairs from a variety of perspectives
Specific Outcome S.2.2	-	Students will apply concepts such as causality, change and conflict to demonstrate and analyze connections among patterns of historical change
Specific Outcome S.3.1	-	Students will analyze the impact of physical and human geography on history
Specific Outcome S.3.4	-	Students will develop and assess geographical representations to demonstrate the impact of factors of geography on world events
Specific Outcome S.3.5	-	Students will assess the impact of human activities on the land and the environment
Specific Outcome S.3.6	-	Students will assess how human interaction impacts geopolitical realities
Specific Outcome S.3.7	-	Students will use current, reliable information sources from around the world, including online atlases
Specific Outcome S.4.2	-	Students will develop inquiry strategies to make decisions and solve problems
Specific Outcome S.5.4	-	Students will demonstrate leadership during discussions and group work
Specific Outcome S.5.5	-	Students will respect the points of view and perspectives of others
Specific Outcome S.6.2	-	Students will acknowledge the importance of multiple perspectives in a variety of situations
Specific Outcome S.7.1	-	Students will develop, express and defend an informed position on an issue
Specific Outcome S.7.2	-	Students will reflect on changes of points of view or opinion based on information gathered and research conducted
Specific Outcome S.7.3	-	Students will draw pertinent conclusions based on evidence derived from research
Specific Outcome S.7.6	-	Students will integrate and synthesize argumentation and evidence to provide an informed opinion on a research question or an issue of inquiry
Specific Outcome S.8.2	-	Students will use skills of formal and informal discussion and/or debate to persuasively express informed viewpoints on an issue
Specific Outcome S.8.3	-	Students will ask respectful and relevant questions of others to clarify viewpoints
Specific Outcome S.8.4	-	Students will listen respectfully to others
Specific Outcome S.9.1		Students will assess the authority, reliability and validity of electronically accessed information

Curriculum Outcomes Addressed: 10-2

Specific Outcome 3.1	-	Students will recognize and appreciate multiple perspectives that exist with respect to the relationships among politics, the environment and globalization (GC, ER, PADM)
Specific Outcome 3.2	-	Students will recognize and appreciate impacts of globalization on the interdependent relationships that exist among the economy, people and the environment (GC, ER, PADM)
Specific Outcome 3.3	-	Students will examine understandings of contemporary economic globalization (GC, ER)
Specific Outcome 3.4	-	Students will identify foundations of contemporary globalization (Bretton Woods Conference) (TCC, PADM, ER)
Specific Outcome 3.5	-	Students will identify factors contributing to the expansion of globalization since the Second World War (international agreements, international organizations, media and transportation technologies, transnational corporations) (TCC, GC, ER, PADM)
Specific Outcome 3.6	-	Students will examine the political and economic challenges and opportunities of globalization (trade liberalization, foreign investment, economic growth, outsourcing, knowledge economy) (ER, PADM, GC)
Specific Outcome S.1.7	-	Students will identify seemingly unrelated ideas to explain a concept or event
Specific Outcome S.1.8	-	Students will analyze current affairs from a variety of perspectives
Specific Outcome S.1.9	-	Students will identify main ideas underlying a position or issue
Specific Outcome S.2.2	-	Students will analyze connections among patterns of historical change by identifying cause and effect relationships
Specific Outcome S.3.1	-	Students will analyze the ways in which physical and human geographic features influence world events
Specific Outcome S.3.4	-	Students will assess the impact of human activities on the land and the environment
Specific Outcome S.3.5	-	Students will use current, reliable information sources from around the world, including online atlases
Specific Outcome S.4.2	-	Students will use inquiry processes to make decisions and solve problems
Specific Outcome S.5.4	-	Students will consider the needs and perspectives of others
Specific Outcome S.6.2	-	Students will promote and respect the contributions of team members when working as a team
Specific Outcome S.6.3	-	Students will cooperate with others for the well-being of the community
Specific Outcome S.7.1	-	Students will develop and express an informed position on an issue
Specific Outcome S.7.2	-	Students will develop conclusions based upon evidence gathered through research of a wide variety of sources
Specific Outcome S.8.2	-	Students will engage in respectful discussion
Specific Outcome S.8.4	-	Students will ask respectful and relevant questions of others to clarify viewpoints on an issue
Specific Outcome S.8.5	-	Students will make respectful and reasoned comments on the topic of discussion

C	Citizenship
ER	Economics and Resources
CC	Culture and Community

I	Identity
LPP	The Land: Places and People
GC	Global Connections

TCC	Time, Continuity and Change
PADM	Power, Authority, and Decision Making