This presentation was created for a contemporary issues/economics 12th grade Social Studies class. This PowerPoint covers global issues that are affecting the world. However, due to the amount of information, this presentation only covers health, education, and the economy in a global perspective. This was made by me and three other people in my group.
1. Global Issues
Think Globally
“The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want
people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering." - Audrey Hepburn
Presented by: Miss Valeski, Miss Wolfe, and Miss Graham
2.
3. If we scaled down the world to 100
people, what would it actually look
like?
8. Global Issues
Health, Economy, and Education
These issues are prevalent around the world
In developed and developing countries
o Developed Countries: Industrialized Countries, more
economically advanced
o Developing Countries: Countries with low standards of
living, lack of established industry, economy, and modern
technology (also called Third World Countries)
Continents that have the majority of developing countries: Africa,
Asia, South America
Developed: North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, South
America
10. Health as a Global Issue
• What are some things that keep us
healthy?
– Healthy
Diet, Hydration, Exercise, Population
11. Health as a Global Issue
•Healthy Diet
•Availability of fruits,
vegetables, meats, dairy
•Where they live
•Sanitary conditions
12. •Hydration
•Safe drinking water
•Virus and diseases
•Human body is made up of 78% of
water
13. Health as a Global Issue
• What are some health issues that you are
concerned with?
• Top 10 deadliest diseases in the world
– Where do they happen
– Patterns
14. Health and How it Relates to
Education
Knowledge of Health is essential to a country’s
development
Health affects children’s education in developing
countries
15. Education as a Global Issue
Why is Education so Important?
Education is central to
development.
• It empowers people,
strengthens nations, society and
the world as a whole
• Social Mobility
• Significantly improves people's
lives.
16. Education as a Global Issue
What Countries are the most
Educated?
Is United States in the top 10?
United States falls at number 11
17. Education as a Global Issue
1 billion People - approximately 26 percent of the world's
population are illiterate (Having little or no education; especially:
unable to read or write)
98 percent of all non-literates live in developing countries.
Why are so many people in developing countries illiterate?
18. Education as a Global Issue
Why are so many people in developing countries
illiterate?
Lack of Money:
• Low education spending
• Families not able to afford education (children have
to work to support their families)
Inequality/Violence:
• -Discrimination with gender and race
• Women make up two-thirds of all non-literates
-Violence:
• Child Soldiers ( Most in Africa; example: Darfur, Sudan)
• Girls at risk for kidnappings
19. Education as a Global Issue
What do you think this map represents?
20. Education to Economy
• Literacy rates as a crucial measure to enhance a region's
human capital (part of economic growth)
• Literate people most likely have a higher socio-economic
status and enjoy better health and employment
prospects.
28. Not very much, is it?
• Poverty is present in all
nations: rich and poor
• It is not the same in one
country as it is in
another
29. U.S. Income and Poverty Rates
• U.S. median income fell 7%
from 1999 levels in 2010
• 15.1% live below poverty line
• What are some causes?
• Big difference from $2.50 a day
• Why is this still considered poor?
30. Inequality of Wealth
• The gap between the rich and poor
• Widening
• Why?
• Bad government policy
– Corruption
• Exploitation
– By people and businesses
with power and influence
• Combination of both
32. “Were just waiting… waiting.. for the
World to change…” –John Mayer
If the World Were in Your Hands…
Divide into three groups, each group will be in charge of
coming up with ideas and solutions to how to fix these
global issues. Each group will have one of the topics: health,
education, and economy.
33. Think Globally, Act Locally
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the
overcoming of it” – Helen Keller
Hinweis der Redaktion
World economy cartogram. To highlight the distribution of wealth and power in the world of today, this cartogram sizes the countries according to their relative financial status, here presented through gross domestic product (gdp) per capita, offering an alternative world view to a regular map. Countries such as China and India become much smaller, next to giants in Western Europe, North America and Japan. Africa represents a minor speck, while South and Central America lands somewhere in between