Global+Education

Global Awareness is being informed about what is going on not only in your community, but the world. You can then understand the relatedness of your community to the entire world, and visa versa. Awareness also leads to better understanding of the way things work in different places.

Global Awareness can play a huge role in implementing a 21st century classroom. Technology gives us the ability to communicate with people all over the world, and explore unlimited resources.

[|Human Genome Project Google Map]

media type="googlemap" key="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=202071385856051334383.00049f7e3a4ffe8668d5d&ll=42.405714,-71.109695&spn=0.111289,0.307961&output=embed" width="425" height="350"This map shows the top five labs that took place in The Human Genome Project. Unfortunately four out the five are in the U.S., but it does show that it was an international effort. If I made it a more comprehensive map the students could have seen that there were many countries from all over the world working on one project that would better allow us to understand the human body and where we came from. There are a lot of things I could use maps for....charting Charles Darwin's course around the world, or using it to identify where different biomes are located. I think it is good to have the kids think about something other than what is right outside their own doors, and possibly how what they do/don't do could have an affect on countries/people all over the world.

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