Globalization: Why We Care About Faraway Events (Inquire & Investigate)

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Have you noticed that our planet is becoming increasingly connected?

At the supermarket, you’ll buy food from everywhere in the world, including olive oil from Greece, cheese from France, and coffee from South The us. At home, you surf the Internet on a pc made in Asia, reading news from many different countries. Your parents might drive a car made in The us, Japan, or Germany whilst you listen to music from American and Canadian pop stars on the radio.

In Globalization: Why We Care About Faraway Events, kids ages 12 to 15 focus on the definition of globalization, how technology drives globalization, and how globalization affects economies, political systems, human rights, and cultures around the world. The book also explores the future of globalization and discusses issues the global community might face in coming years.

For centuries, people from different societies and cultures have made contact with each other and exchanged goods and ideas. Globalization is not a new thing, but in recent years, advances in transportation and technology have made it easier than ever to connect with people in every single place, whether they are sitting next to you on a bus, waiting for you at home, or sitting on a different bus halfway around the globe. Jet airplanes and great ocean ships carry people and goods in every single place on this planet. Cell phones, computers, the Internet, and social media allow people to communicate instantly, no matter where they are. Through globalization, the world is becoming more interconnected and interdependent. Is globalization a good thing? Does globalization benefit all world citizens, rich and poor? Or does it only benefit a couple of, whilst harming others?

In this civics book, middle grade students are encouraged to think critically about how globalization affects local and global communities. Globalization: Why We Care About Faraway Events teaches students about a crucial topic in a fact-based way that promotes empowerment and understanding. Investigations and hands-on experiments provide students with problem-solving opportunities that help students resolve the right balance between the benefits and costs associated with globalization. Projects such as tracking the origins of different objects and devices you might find at home lead readers through an inquiry-based, open-ended investigation with quite a lot of room to explore individual creativity.

Globalization is one book in a set of four that explore great events of the twentieth century. Other titles in this set include The Vietnam War; World War II: From the Rise of the Nazi Party to the Dropping of the Atomic Bomb; and The Space Race: How the Cold War Put Humans on the Moon.

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