Web Publishing: Halton District School Board

GLOBAL CONNECTIONS

CBC: Russian Ship Arrives in Churchill - Oct. 17, 2007: http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=CA&hl=en&v=PBXpFRn7whY

The Invisible Children:

MAP OF AFRICA http://www.africaguide.com/afmap.htm POLITICAL

http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/africa/afoutl.htm BLACKLINE

MAP OF UGANDA http://www.lonelyplanet.com/maps/africa/uganda/

NIGHTWALKERS http://www.unicef.org/media/media_22368.html?q=printme

THE GULU WALK http://guluwalk.com/northernuganda/ - NORTHERN UGANDA

VIDEO: Invisible Children: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3166797753930210643

The Film: http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/33d/projects/genocides/uganda/UgandaFilmInvChildrenMelanie.htm

History of Uganda: http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/33d/projects/genocides/uganda/UgandaHistoryClaire.htm

Holocaust Connection: http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/33d/projects/genocides/uganda/UgandaWW2Melissa.htm

Rights of the Child:

Child Friendly Language: http://www.cccf-fcsge.ca/pdf/rights_poster_en.pdf

CBC: Afganistan: Between Hope and Fear Video: http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/afghanistan/

- on right hand side under MENU click on "Watch Video Online"

PHYSICAL AND SUSTAINABILITY UNIT:

Calculate your Ecological Footprint (both sites and print results for class):

http://www.myfootprint.org/en/ and at http://www.wwf.org.au/footprint/calculator/

The Story of Stuff: http://www.storyofstuff.com/

The Lorax: http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/learning/resources/activities/lorax.phtml

http://www.ie.unc.edu/erp/resources/Lorax_and_Sustainable_Development.pdf

Water Consumption Calculator: www.csgnetwork.com/waterusagecalc.html - Please print or copy results into notebook

Spotlight on Bottled Water Articles:

CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2007/02/01/suzuki-water.html

CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/consumers/market/files/food/bottledwater/index.html

The Toronto Star: http://www.thestar.com/News/article/198815

OSSTF: http://www.insidethebottle.org/student-action-bottled-water-industry-marketing-ruse

The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/nyregion/long-island/26waterli.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print

Bottled Water Tapped Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72MCumz5lq4

The Shocking State of South Africa's Water Infrastructure: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-4lqY2FXDY

Surface Water Contamination Alberta, Canada: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoolKFjHz7A

Canadian municipalities ban bottled water: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZGDueSjf8o

The Issue of Water Privatisaztion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRagFvwH0Vo

E-Waste: CBC News World Video: http://www.cbc.ca/national/blog/video/environmentscience/ewaste_dumping_ground_1.html

Plate Tectonics: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/tectonics.html

Earthquakes: http://earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/index_e.php

National Geographic: Earth's Core, Magnetic Field Changing Fast, Study Says: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080630-earth-core.html

National Geographic: Earth's Magnetic Field is Fading: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/09/0909_040909_earthmagfield.html

National Geographic: Glaciers Melting Worldwide, Study Finds: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/08/0821_020821_wireglaciers.html

National Geographic: Melting Himalayan Glaciers May Doom Towns: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/05/0501_020502_himalaya.html

BCC: Melting of Glaciers 'Speeds Up': http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6310869.stm

Smart Growth: http://www.smartgrowth.org/about/default.asp

Natural Resources Canada - Value of our Mining Industry: http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/mms/scho-ecol/treas/oht_e.htm

Alberta's Oil Sands:

CBC Video: http://www.cbc.ca/national/blog/video/environmentscience/crude_awakening.html

CBC Article: http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/oil/alberta_oilsands.html

Much Music: http://watch.muchmusic.com/shows/muchtalks/climate-change/#clip81277

BC Pine Beetle: CBC The National: http://www.cbc.ca/national/blog/video/environmentscience/the_deadly_pine_beetle.html

Drainage Basin Map: http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/sites/english/maps/reference/national/drainbasins/referencemap_image_view

URBAN CONNECTIONS UNIT:

Urban Sprawl vs. Smart Growth (BNN): http://www.cato.org/mediahighlights/index.php?highlight_id=263

The Places To Grow Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe Brochure: http://www.placestogrow.ca/images/pdfs/pir-brochure-eng.pdf

The Places To Grow Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe Guide: http://www.placestogrow.ca/images/pdfs/FINAL-GUIDE-ENG.pdf

The Places to Grow Plan Youth Engagement Video 1: http://www.placestogrow.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=105&itemid=66

Land Use Iroquois Ridge North District (land use map): http://www.oakville.ca/Media_Files/planning/FIG_M2.pdf

Town Of Oakville Official Plan: http://www.oakville.ca/officialplan.htm

Liveable Oakville New Official Plan: http://www.oakville.ca/livable-draftplan.htm

POPULATION CONNECTIONS UNIT:

Citizenship and Immigration Canada Video Centre: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/media/multimedia/index.asp

CBC.ca: Citizenship Test: http://www.cbc.ca/citizenship/test.html

CBC.ca: Immigration in Canada from 1947-2017 Article: http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/immigration/index.html

CBC.ca: Citizenship Video Clips (Video Features): http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/immigration/index.html

CBC.ca: Interactive 2006 Census: Immigration and Mother Tongue: http://www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/cp-census-immigration/index.html

Migration Expert: http://www.migrationexpert.com/canada/visa/visa_application.asp

CBC.ca: Attracting Skilled Immigrants (article): http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/immigration/skilledimmigrants.html

Citizenship and Immitration Canada: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/index.asp

World Issues:

Updated textbook links: http://www.pearsoned.ca/school/extra/globalconnections2/media/GC2_weblinks.pdf

Unit 1:

Looking at the World in 10 Secods: www.bigpicturesmallworld.com

Danny and Sandy (Grease) Clip - examining perspectives: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blcvkFqeKac&feature=related

Comprehensive listing of online newspapers from around the world: http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/

Tragedy of the Commons Reading: http://members.aol.com/trajcom/private/commons.htm

Ecological Footprint: http://www.myfootprint.org/en/

Dubai: The World: http://www.theworld.ae/videoGallery.html

Dubai: The Palm:http://www.thepalm.ae/

Ship Breaking:

Greenpeace: http://www.greenpeaceweb.org/shipbreak/

http://www.greenpeace.org/india/campaigns/toxics-free-future/ship-breaking

Photos: http://cowlesgallery.com/archive/Burtynsky02.html

International Metalworkers' Federation: http://www.imfmetal.org/main/files/06042810465779/Shipbreaking_survey.pdf

International Labour Organization: http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/sectors/shipbrk/index.htm

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/sectors/shipbrk/shpbreak.htm

Safe Work: A Background Paper: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_janfeb_2006/endoftheline1.html

CBC: The Fifth Es tate: http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/bigbreak/

Copenhagen Consensus 2004 Introduction Video: http://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/Files/Filer/CC/Flash/multimediapres.html

Copenhagen Consensus 2008: Results and The Ranked Lists of Solutions: http://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/Default.aspx?ID=788

UNIT TWO - HUMAN POPULATION

Global Connections Textbook Links - http://www.pearsoned.ca/school/extra/globalconnections2/

Population Pyramids - http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/

World Population Reference Bureau - World Population Data Sheet - http://www.prb.org/pdf08/08WPDS_Eng.pdf

Population Reference Bureau Home Page - http://www.prb.org/Publications/Datasheets/2008/2008wpds.aspx

Global Connections Textbook Links - http://www.pearsoned.ca/school/extra/globalconnections2/

World Clock: http://www.peterrussell.com/Odds/WorldClock.php

6 Billion Human Beings: http://www-popexpo.ined.fr/eMain.html

World Mapper: http://www.worldmapper.org/

Population Reference Bureau (Population Bulletin and Population Data Sheet): http://www.prb.org/Publications/Datasheets/2008/2008wpds.aspx

Big Picture Small World Videos - http://www.bigpicturesmallworld.com/movies/PopulationMovie/introPop.html

World Population Reference Bureau - World Population Data Sheet - http://www.prb.org/pdf08/08WPDS_Eng.pdf

Gapminder World - http://www.gapminder.org/gapminder-world.html

Note: when being instructed to make or analize graphs please go into "Gapminder World"

U.S. Census Bureau - Animated Population Pyramids - http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/

Population Council - http://www.popcouncil.org/index.html

Population Theorists:

Betsy Hartmann: http://www.betsyhartmann.org/non-fiction/reproductive_rights_and_wrongs.htm

DJ Bogue: http://lib.bioinfo.pl/auth:Bogue,DJ

Anne Ehrilich: http://www.stanford.edu/group/CCB/Staff/anne.htm

Dr. Paul Erlich: http://www.nationalcenter.org/dos7111.htm

Esther Boserup: http://www.yorku.ca/anderson/population/boserup.htm

Julian Lincoln Simon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Lincoln_Simon

Robert D Kaplan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_D._Kaplan

Thomas Homer-Dixon: http://www.homerdixon.com/biography.html

Thomas Malthus: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/malthus.html

William Catton: http://desip.igc.org/malthus/Catton.html

Video: World in Balance - Global Trends Quiz: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance/trends.html

- Voices of Concern: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance/voices.html

- Population Campaigns: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance/campaigns.html

Milennium Development Goals - http://www.undp.org/mdg/basics.shtml

Birth Dearth: "Experts Wrangle over Birth Dearth": http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3072271/

Invisable Children

Invisable Children Website: http://www.invisiblechildren.com/home.php

Children of War in Uganda: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9006024/

Unicef: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/uganda_27744.html

Posters from Child Soldiers: http://www.theirc.org/where/page-28828228.html

Migration:

Illegal Immigration: Somalia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN7HJZLcNpM

Forced Migration: The Refugee Law Project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpqGwaULj9M

Human Trafficing:CBS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGAaWjsAOCA

Gacaca Similation: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/teach/ghosts/postviewingext2.html

Video Clips: Congo: Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTkWTb2-Jyc&feature=related

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsdDsmkZ2d4&feature=related

Articles: Congo: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/03/congo-rwanda-genocide-violence

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/02/congo

HIV/AIDS

msf Patent Pool video: http://www.msf.org.uk/articledetail.aspx?fId=push_for_the_pool_20090929

msf site: http://www.msf.org.uk/articledetail.aspx?fId=push_for_the_pool_20090929

Stephen Lewis Foundation: wwwlstephenlewisfoundation.org

Umoyo Life

http://www.umoyolife.ca/section/view/?fnode=7

Pandemic:Facing AIDS

http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/pandemic/index.html

UNIT 4 - REFUGEE CRISIS

Bracelet of Life - http://www.doctorswithoutborders.co.nz/education/activities/braceletoflife/index.html

Environment

Kibera Waste Management, Nairobi, Kenya 4 Minutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35vA6-M1Yog

Flow:For The Love Of Water http://www.sffs.org/assets/Flow_Study_Guide.pdf

Sharkwater

Tapped Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72MCumz5lq4

The Shocking State of South Africa's Water Infrastructure: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-4lqY2FXDY

Surface Water Contamination Alberta, Canada: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoolKFjHz7A

Canadian municipalities ban bottled water: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZGDueSjf8o

UNIT 5 - GEOPOLITICAL HOTSPOTS

Country Watch - http://www.countrywatch.com/facts/facts_default.aspx?type=text&topic=SESPI

International Debt Crisis Wikispace Site: http://internationaldebtcrisis.wikispaces.com

World Vision Video: Beat Poverty: We've Got What it Takes!: http://www.worldvision.ca/Education-and-Justice/Teacher-Resources/Pages/Hunger-and-Poverty.aspx

My Mother Built This House:

Video: http://video.google.ca/videosearch?hl=en&q=my%20mother%20built%20this%20house&gbv=2&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iv#

Transcript:http://www.tve.org/lifeonline/index.cfm?aid=1116

Umoyo (Life)

Website: http://www.umoyolife.ca/section/view/?fnode=4

CBC Radio: http://citizen.nfb.ca/node/2001&dossier_nid=1134

Economics

mars Canada Inc. ( candy and products manufacturers) : http://www.mars.com/global/home.htm

Fair Trade Coffee (Looking For Justice-video): http://www.sevenshorestrading.com/section/view/?fnode=73