Global Competition Project

 

 

In small groups you are to research and present information on one aspect of globalization and its affect on America and the world.   Please make sure your presentation is current and uses current information, statistics, etc.  Your presentation should focus around the following questions:  What is your topic and its significance to globalism?  What are the controversies about your topic?  What are the pros and cons around your topic?  You may use powerpoint, poster paper, the document camera, videos, drama, etc. to present your topic.  At the end of the presentation, please allow the class to ask questions and have questions to ask them to check for understanding.  Please turn-in a short bibliography with your project.

 

Topics:

• Free Trade:  Nafta, Cafta, controversies about free trade
• IMF and the World Bank:  the history, what is it?  What does it do now?  Pros and cons?
• WTO:  what is it?  History?  What does it do?  Controversies?
• Embargoes and barriers to trade, MFN status:  what is it? Controversies?  History?
• Outsourcing and the affects of global trade on labor
• World Currencies and exchange rates

Helpful Website:

nafta business week pros and cons

nafta time magazine  a brief history

 

nafta us dept of agriculture

 

sbceo portal.  user name:  sanmarcos  password:  royals. 
this is a great website to start with encyclopedias, article, videos, maps

IMF website.

worldbank website.

anti-globalism website.  IMF and Worldbank protests

WTO time magazine battle in seattle

 

WTO website .  what is the wto

current exchange rates

Is the Euro the new dollar?  This is a time magazine article about currencies.

Outsourcing.  This is a Businessweek article about outsourcing.

MFN and China.  This is a CNN article about China and MFN status

BBC article on the Cuban embargo

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assessment

Student	Teacher
_____/20	______/20	Research.  Was our project well-researched? Did it have correct and current information?  Did our research show the controversies of our topic?
_____/20	_____/20	Presentation. Was our presentation well-planned?  Did it teach the class about our topic and the controversies surrounding it?  Did our presentation show creativity, effort and enthusiasm?
_____/10	_____/10	Bibliography.  Did we include one?

 

Student:  _____/50

Teacher: _____/50