Global Studies - The Basic Not Boring Series
Inventive Exercises to Sharpen Skills and Raise Achievement

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This book introduces students from the middle years to global studies. Each page invites the learner to try high-interest, appealing exercises which will help them with new skills, reinforce skills or assess a student's performance or understanding.

This is no ordinary fill-in-the-blanks way to learn. These exercises are fun and surprising. Students will do the useful work of practicing social studies skills while they enjoy characters of many cultures who lead them to explore social and cultural concepts.

They will examine what makes groups and societies tick, understand the reasons people celebrate all over the world, and get a look inside the WTO, ILO and IMF.

The pages are written with the assumption that an adult will be available to assist the student with his or her learning and practice. Students will also need access to social studies resources such as maps and globes, atlases, Internet reference sources and encyclopedias.

Students will sharpen their global studies skills, including how to:

• Recognise nations and their locations in each of the continental regions
• Show understanding of social and cultural concepts and terms
• Show understanding of the need for rules and laws in groups
• Identify different expressions of culture (cultural traits and patterns)
• Recognise major cities of the world, their location and some of their cultural features
• Show understanding of the concept of a country's GDP and GDP per capita
• Identify some of the major institutions and organizations of the world

Published 2003.

Written by Imogene Forte & Marjorie Frank.

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