Great website full of information directly relevant to the Global Interactions unit. Aspects of Globalization broken down into bitesize chunks relating to the different study units. Brilliant!
Aims of this lesson:
To be able to distinguish between the terms globalization and glocalization.
To examine the extent to which commercial activities at a local scale have become globalized.
To examine the reasons why the level and rate of adoption of globalization varies from place to place.
Updated Jan 2012
Interesting talk to use as a starting point for Global Interactions - How did we get to where we are? Why is it so difficult to produce goods at a small scale today? Where do all the materials we use for everyday products come from? What are the environmental consequences of mineral extraction?
To mark 100 years of passenger air travel, our stunning interactive uses live data to show every one of the thousands of commercial planes currently in the air, charts the history of aviation since 1914, and asks what comes next for the industry