In your notebook, reflect on the following questions: What
problems did you face in the past week? What is your biggest worry?
What did you purchase in the last month that made you really happy?
What kind of problems do you face?
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WHAT WE THINK ARE PROBLEMS, ARENT REALLY PROBLEMS AT ALL. CLICK
HERE TO WATCH VIDEO CLIP OF FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS BEING READ BY
THIRD WORLD CHILDREN. CLICK HERE Do you really have problems?
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How do your problems compare? First World Problems iPhone needs
to be upgraded Pizza has too much grease Battery just died Late to
soccer practice Wi-Fi doesnt have enough band width to support all
my devices Third World Problems No clean drinking water Not enough
food to feed family Have to walk miles to access river to wash
clothes by hand No bathroom facilities No access to
electricity
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How reliable is your access? Create a column grid and label
like the example below. Reflect on how reliable is your access to
the following: Electricity Food Security Safe Drinking Water
SanitationCooking
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Sierra Leone, Africa What would a day be like in Sierra Leone?
Click here Click here to find out. Go back to the grid and record
the access for each in Sierra Leone :
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100 People: World Portrait click here for video click here for
video. The world population is over 7 billion. By statistically
representing the world population as 100 people, it makes complex
issues more comprehensible and help get a stronger sense of the big
picture. If the World were 100 PEOPLE: 50 would be female 50 would
be male 26 would be children There would be 74 adults, 8 of whom
would be 65 and older There would be: 60 Asians 15 Africans 14
people from the Americas 11 Europeans 33 Christians 22 Muslims 14
Hindus 7 Buddhists 12 people who practice other religions 12 people
who would not be aligned with a religion 12 would speak Chinese 5
would speak Spanish 5 would speak English 3 would speak Arabic 3
would speak Hindi 3 would speak Bengali 3 would speak Portuguese 2
would speak Russian 2 would speak Japanese 62 would speak other
languages 83 would be able to read and write; 17 would not 7 would
have a college degree 22 would own or share a computer 77 people
would have a place to shelter them from the wind and the rain, but
23 would not 1 would be dying of starvation 15 would be
undernourished 21 would be overweight 87 would have access to safe
drinking water 13 people would have no clean, safe water to
drink
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References: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-S0uPiKr6U
Sources: 2012 - Fritz Erickson, Provost and Vice President for
Academic Affairs, Ferris State University (Formerly Dean of
Professional and Graduate Studies, University of Wisconsin - Green
Bay) and John A. Vonk, University of Northern Colorado, 2006;
Returning Peace Corps Volunteers of Madison Wisconsin, Unheard
Voices: Celebrating Cultures from the Developing World, 1992;
Donella H. Meadows, The Global Citizen, May 31, 1990.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUoKBeDEoDY