Subject Area: Social Studies

Grade Level: 10
Topic: Globalization and Sustainability - RI 3
Length of Unit (lessons): 14

Stage 1 Desired Results

Established Goals:
General Outcome
Students will assess economic, environmental and other contemporary impacts of globalization.
Specific Outcomes: Values and Attitudes
Students will:
3.1 - recognize and appreciate multiple perspectives that exist with respect to the relationships among politics, economics, the
environment and globalization
Global Connections | Economics and Resources | Power, Authority and Decision Making

3.2 - recognize and appreciate impacts of globalization on the interdependent relationships among people, the economy and the
environment
Global Connections | Economics and Resources | Power, Authority and Decision Making

Specific Outcomes: Knowledge and Understanding

Students will:
3.3 - explore understandings of contemporary economic globalization
Global Connections | Economics and Resources
3.4 - examine the foundations of contemporary globalization (F. A. Hayek, Bretton Woods Conference, Milton Friedman)
Time, Continuity and Change | Power, Authority and Decision Making | Economics and Resources

3.5 - analyze factors contributing to the expansion of globalization since the Second World War (international agreements, international
organizations, transnational corporations, media and transportation technologies)
Time, Continuity and Change | Global Connections | Economics and Resources | Power, Authority and Decision Making

3.6 - analyze political and economic challenges and opportunities of globalization (trade liberalization, foreign investment, economic
growth, privatization, outsourcing, knowledge economy)
Economics and Resources | Power, Authority and Decision Making | Global Connections

3.7 - explore multiple perspectives regarding the relationship among people, the land and globalization (spirituality, stewardship,
sustainability, resource development)
The Land: Places and People | Culture and Community | Economics and Resources | Global Connections

3.8 - evaluate actions and policies associated with globalization that impact the environment (land and resource use, resource
development agreements, environmental legislation)

Unit Assessment Plan Social 10 Related Issue Three

Subject Area: Social Studies

Grade Level: 10
Topic: Globalization and Sustainability - RI 3
Length of Unit (lessons): 14
The Land: Places and People | Economics and Resources | Global Connections

3.9 - analyze multiple perspectives on sustainability and prosperity in a globalizing world

Economics and Resources | The Land: Places and People | Global Connections

Understandings:
Students will understand that
Globalization and contemporary economics
have a direct relationship and there are
factors that have laid the foundations for,
and contributed to, expanding globalization
since the Second World War.

Essential Questions:
1. To what extent does globalization contribute to sustainable prosperity
for all people?
2. To what extent did world events shape contemporary economic
globalization?
3. To what extent do contemporary factors contribute to expanding
globalization?
4. To what extent does globalization affect sustainability?
5. To what extent can globalization bring sustainable prosperity to all
people?

There are many contributing factors and

perspectives on expanding globalization.
Students will know

Students will be able to do

The foundations of economic globalization

and how it has shaped the rise of
contemporary globalization.

Students will be able to apply what they have learned, along with research they
have conducted themselves, to come to a reasoned decision about the
overview question for the unit.

The differing perspectives, as well of the

challenges and opportunities, of
contemporary globalization in relations to
the people, the land, globalization.

To analyze and evaluate multiple perspectives and factors in expanding

contemporary globalization.

Unit Assessment Plan Social 10 Related Issue Three

Subject Area: Social Studies

Grade Level: 10
Topic: Globalization and Sustainability - RI 3
Length of Unit (lessons): 14

Assessments
Lear
ning
Outc
ome
s

What factors
laid the
foundations
for
contemporar
y global
economics?

Public
Service
Announc
ements

IMF
Success
or
Failures?

Letter
to the
Editor

Related Issue
Three Test

Type

Format
ive

Summative

Formativ
e

Summativ
e

Summativ
e

Formative

Summative

Summative

Formative

Summ
ative

Summative

3.1 - recognize and

appreciate multiple
perspectives that exist
with respect to the
relationships among
politics, economics, the
environment and
globalization
Global Connections |
Economics and
Resources | Power,
Authority and Decision
Making
3.2 - recognize and
appreciate impacts of
globalization on the
interdependent
relationships among
people, the economy
and the environment
Global Connections |
Economics and
Resources | Power,
Authority and Decision
Making
3.3 - explore
understandings of
contemporary economic
globalization
Global Connections |
Economics and
Resources

Unit Assessment Plan Social 10 Related Issue Three

Chapter
Eleven
Questions

What does
sustainabilit
y mean?

Title

(Formati
ve/Sum
mative)

Chapter
Ten
Questions

What is
your
ecological
footprint?

Measuring
Prosperity/
Challenges
and
Opportuniti
es

Portfoli
o
Questi
on #1

Subject Area: Social Studies

Grade Level: 10
Topic: Globalization and Sustainability - RI 3
Length of Unit (lessons): 14
3.4 - examine the
foundations of
contemporary
globalization (F. A.
Hayek, Bretton Woods
Conference, Milton
Friedman)
Time, Continuity and
Change | Power,
Authority and Decision
Making | Economics and
Resources
3.5 - analyze factors
contributing to the
expansion of
globalization since the
Second World War
(international
agreements,
international
organizations,
transnational
corporations, media and
transportation
technologies)
Time, Continuity and
Change | Global
Connections |
Economics and
Resources | Power,
Authority and Decision
Making
3.6 - analyze political
and economic
challenges and
opportunities of
globalization (trade
liberalization, foreign
investment, economic
growth, privatization,
outsourcing, knowledge
economy)
Economics and
Resources | Power,
Authority and Decision
Making | Global
Connections
3.7 - explore multiple
perspectives regarding
the relationship among
people, the land and
globalization (spirituality,
stewardship,
sustainability, resource
development)
The Land: Places and
People | Culture and
Community | Economics
and Resources | Global

Unit Assessment Plan Social 10 Related Issue Three

Subject Area: Social Studies

Grade Level: 10
Topic: Globalization and Sustainability - RI 3
Length of Unit (lessons): 14
Connections
3.8 - evaluate actions
and policies associated
with globalization that
impact the environment
(land and resource use,
resource development
agreements,
environmental
legislation)
The Land: Places and
People | Economics and
Resources | Global
Connections
3.9 - analyze multiple
perspectives on
sustainability and
prosperity in a
globalizing world
Economics and
Resources | The Land:
Places and People |
Global Connections

Unit Assessment Plan Social 10 Related Issue Three

Subject Area: Social Studies

Grade Level: 10
Topic: Globalization and Sustainability - RI 3
Length of Unit (lessons): 14

Assessment Tool Overview

Assessment
Tool

Brief Description
Do you believe that global trade reduces the

Portfolio Question
likelihood of violence? Explain the reasons
#1
for your ideas.
Handout: What
factors laid the
foundations for
contemporary
global economics?

Assessmen
t FOR
Learning

Assessmen
t AS
Learning

Students will complete questions about

the content from chapter 9 - relating to
the foundations of contemporary
economics.

Public Service
Announcements

In groups, students will create public service

announcements to find information and share
information with their classmates. The topics
covered will include: Group 1: Bretton Wood
conference, Group 2: John Maynard Keynes,
Group 3: Friedrich Hayek, Group 4: The World
Bank, Group 5: International Monetary Fund,
Group 6: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

IMF Successes
or Failures?

Students will examine selected sources offering

commentary on the International Monetary Fund
and respond.

Chapter Ten
Questions

These questions will guide students through our

exploration of the topic: to what extent do
contemporary factors contribute to expanding

Unit Assessment Plan Social 10 Related Issue Three

Assessment OF Learning

Subject Area: Social Studies

Grade Level: 10
Topic: Globalization and Sustainability - RI 3
Length of Unit (lessons): 14

What is your
ecological
footprint?
Chapter Eleven
Questions

globalization? This will allow students to consider

and explore the information immediately
throughout the use.
Students will discover their own ecological
footprint. They will compare it to that of the
average Canadian, how it compares to individuals
in other countries, and how sustainable their
lifestyle is.
These questions will guide students through our
exploration of the topic: to what extent does
globalization affect sustainability? This will allow
students to consider and explore the information
immediately throughout the use.

What does
sustainability
mean?

Students will create a creative presentation of a

comparison of the ecological footprint and
sustainability of Canada, Bangladesh and a third
country of their choosing.

Measuring
Prosperity/Challenge
s and Opportunities

These handouts will guide student learning of this

topic through questioning and exploring of
concepts considered.
In this assignment students will respond to how
we should respond to globalization to help create
sustainable prosperity, analyzing different
perspectives on the issue.
This summative test will evaluate students
understanding of unit.

Letter to the
Editor
Related Issue
Three Test

Unit Assessment Plan Social 10 Related Issue Three

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