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    Globalization: Why We Care About Faraway Events
    Globalization: Why We Care About Faraway Events
    Globalization: Why We Care About Faraway Events
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    Globalization: Why We Care About Faraway Events

    By Carla Mooney and Samuel Carbaugh

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    Have you noticed that our planet is becoming increasingly connected? At the supermarket, you can buy food from all around the world, including olive oil from Greece, cheese from France, and coffee from South America. At home, you surf the Internet on a computer made in Asia, reading news from many different countries. Your parents might drive a car made in America, Japan, or Germany while 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 everywhere, 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. 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 few, while 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 determine 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 plenty of room to explore individual creativity. Globalization is one book in a set of four that explore great events of the twentieth century. Inquire and Investigate 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; Globalization: Why We Care About Faraway Events; and The Space Race: How the Cold War Put Humans on the Moon. Nomad Press books in the Inquire & Investigate series integrate content with participation, encouraging older readers to engage in student-directed learning as opposed to teacher-guided instruction. This student-centered approach provides readers with the tools they need to become inquiry-based learners. Common Core State Standards, the Next Generation Science Standards, and STEM Education all place project-based learning as key building blocks in education. Combining content with inquiry-based projects stimulates learning and makes it active and alive. Consistent with our other series, all of the activities in the books in the Inquire & Investigate series are hands-on, challenging readers to develop and test their own hypotheses, ask their own questions, and formulate their own solutions. In the process, readers learn how to analyze, evaluate, and present the data they collect. As informational texts our books provide key ideas and details from which readers can work out their own inferences. Nomad’s unique approach simultaneously grounds kids in factual knowledge while allowing them the space to be curious, creative, and critical thinkers.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNomad Press
    Release dateMay 1, 2018
    ISBN9781619306653
    Globalization: Why We Care About Faraway Events
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    Carla Mooney

    Carla Mooney has written more than 70 books for children and young adults. She is an award-winning author of several books for Nomad Press, including The Chemistry of Food, The Physics of Fun, The Human Body and The Human Genome: Mapping the Blueprint of Human Life, and Globalization: Why We Care about Faraway Events. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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      Globalization - Carla Mooney

      Nomad Press

      A division of Nomad Communications

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      Copyright © 2018 by Nomad Press. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from

      the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review or for limited educational use.

      The trademark Nomad Press and the Nomad Press logo are trademarks of Nomad Communications, Inc.

      ISBN Softcover: 978-1-61930-666-0

      ISBN Hardcover: 978-1-61930-664-6

      Educational Consultant, Marla Conn

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      Timeline

      Introduction

      The World Cup on a Global Stage

      Chapter 1

      What Is Globalization?

      Chapter 2

      Money in a Global World

      Chapter 3

      The Global Rules of Trade

      Chapter 4

      Global Politics

      Chapter 5

      In the Name of the Law

      Chapter 6

      Crossing the Cultural Divide

      Chapter 7

      The Future of Globalization

      Index

      TIMELINE

      The World Cup on a Global Stage

      How does the FIFA World Cup represent globalization?

      The coming together of many different nationalities from all around the world at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil is indicative of the daily merging of our global experiences, from eating bananas grown in Guatemala to riding bikes made in China.

      In July 2014, people from all around the globe gathered in Brazil for one of the world’s most popular sporting events—the men’s football World Cup. Organized by the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), the World Cup is held every four years. It has been hosted by countries on every continent except Australia and Antarctica.

      For the 2014 event, 32 of the world’s best national teams competed to win the Golden Globe Trophy. These teams included five from Africa, four from Asia, 13 from Europe, four from North and Central America, and six from South America.

      Not only were the teams themselves from around the world, so were the fans. More than a million international tourists traveled to Brazil from countries as far away as Germany, Australia, Japan, and Israel. They dressed in team colors and waved the flags of their nations as they cheered for their favorite teams.

      An even larger global audience watched the sporting action on television and on digital streaming devices. The 2014 World Cup was shown in every country and territory in the world to an audience of more than 3.2 billion people. Multinational corporations such as Adidas, Coca-Cola, Visa, Emirates, McDonald’s, Sony, and Hyundai Motor Group poured money into the event for sponsorships. Their brands and logos were seen daily by the billions of viewers.

      The official slogan of the 2014 FIFA World Cup was Juntos num so ritmo, or All in one rhythm. It truly was a global event.

      A PRODUCT OF GLOBAL COOPERATION

      Adidas, a German corporation, supplied the soccer balls used in the World Cup. More than a million Brazilian fans voted in a social media contest, naming the ball Brazuca.

      The ball itself was a product of global cooperation. Low-wage workers in Pakistan made the balls used in game play, while Chinese workers manufactured replica balls. The manufacturing process used chemical compounds from several countries and plastics made from petroleum from the Middle East and Norway.

      More than 600 international soccer players from all positions tested prototypes of the Brazuca balls to make sure they worked properly. They conducted tests in 10 countries on three continents, in different climates and altitudes.

      Primary Sources

      Primary sources come from people who were eyewitnesses to events. They might write about the event, take pictures, post short messages to social media or blogs, or record the event for radio or video. The photographs in this book are primary sources, taken at the time of the event. Paintings of events are usually not primary sources, since they were often painted long after the event took place. What other primary sources can you find? Why are primary sources important? Do you learn differently from primary sources than from secondary sources, which come from people who did not directly experience the event?

      Vocab Lab

      There is a lot of new vocabulary in this book. Turn to the glossary in the back when you come to a word you don’t understand. Practice your new vocabulary in the VOCAB LAB activities in each chapter.

      credit: Danilo Borges

      Once the balls were ready, South-Korean-built container ships carried the Brazucas to fans around the globe.

      Even the World Cup’s entertainment was a product of global cooperation. At the opening ceremony, American entertainer Jennifer

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