Unit7Station4:Globalization

Name:___________________________
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PartOne:Whatisglobalization?
Globalization is a process of interaction (meeting) and integration (combining) among the people,
companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by
international trade and
investment
and aided by
information technology
. This process has effects on the
environment
, on
culture
, on political
systems, on
economic development and prosperity, and on
humanphysical wellbeing in societies around
theworld.

Globalization is not new, though. For thousands of years, peopleand, later, corporationshave been
buying from and selling to each other in lands at great distances, such as through the famed Silk Road
across Central Asia that connected China and Europe during the Middle Ages. Likewise, for centuries,
people and corporationshave invested in enterprises inother countries. In fact, manyofthefeaturesofthe
current wave of globalization are similar to those prevailing before the outbreak of the First World War in
1914. Yet in the last decades, changing policies and technological developments have let do crossborder
trade,investment,andmigrationinfarlargernumbersthantheworldhaseverseen.

Inyourownwords,whatisglobalization?

Whatisanexampleofglobalizationfrompasthistory?

PartTwo:UnderstandingGlobalizationFromaTShirt
First:
Lookatthetagonthebackofyourshirt(orhavesomeonehelpyou).Wherewasyourshirtmade?
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How
doyouthinkyourshirtwasmade?Useasmanydetailsasyoucan(evenifyouhavenoidea!)

Goto
apps.npr.org/tshirt/#/cotton

orsearchforPlanetMoneyMakesaTShirtontheYouTubeApp(or
findthelinksontheclasswebsite).Watchthefollowingshortvideosandanswerthequestions.

IntroVideo
1.)WhatstorydidAlexBloombergwanttotellthroughthesevideos?

CottonVideo
2.)Wheredidthetshirtstart?(Stateandcountry)
3.)Whatcountryexportsthemostcottonintheworld?
4.)WherearemostAmericancottonseedsmade?


Unit7Station4:Globalization

5.)HowmanytshirtscouldbemadefromthecottononBowenFlowersfarm?

MachineVideo
6.)WherearesomeplacesthatthecottonisshippedtoafteritsfarmedintheU.S.?

Isntitcoolwhatcottonlookslikewhenitsbeingturnedintofabric?!

PeopleVideo
Importantvocab:
Garment=clothingGarmentfactory=placewhereclothesaremadeGarmentindustry=
businessofmakingclothes

7.)Wherewasthemenstshirtmade?
8.)Wherewasthewomanstshirtmade?
9.)Whichcountry(fromthetwoyoulistedabove)ispoorer?
10.)WhydomanypeopleinBangladeshworkingarmentfactories?

11.)WhathappenedinBangladeshinApril2013?

12.)HowislifeforDoris(fromColombia)differentfromthatofJasmine(Bangladesh)?

13.)DoactivistsandfactoryownersinBangladeshthinkthegarmentindustryshouldleavethecountry?
Whatdotheydisagreeonthough?

BoxesVideo
16.)WhenthetshirtscomebackfromBangladeshorColombia(oranyothercountrywheretheyaremade),
whatdotheytravelin?
17.)Whendidcontainersstartbeingusedandwhyweretheyimportant?

18.)Whatmodesoftransportationareneededtogettheshirtfromthefactorytous?

YouVideo
19.)Inthisvideo,howmanyspecificpeopleareinvolvedinthemakingofyourshirt?Howmanydifferent
countriesarerepresented?

20.)WhatsurprisedYOUmostinlearningabouthowatshirtismade?

SUMMARY:
Howwerethesevideosanexampleofglobalization?