Contemporary Global Issues: Home

The United Nations has assigned you to investigate a contemporary global problem. Choose the issue you would like to study and research to find a country currently dealing with that issue. Create a product to present to the class.

Project instructions:

1. Form groups of 1-4 people.

2. With your group, you will research a contemporary global issue in one of these regions:

• Africa
• Middle East
• Asia
• Latin America

In one of these four categories (Some countries are suggested for you):

• Changes in world population (Democratic Republic of Congo, China, Japan, Syria) 
• Managing natural resources (India, Kenya, Brazil, )
• Patterns of global economic interaction (China, Mexico, Rwanda)
• Conflict, cooperation and security (Sudan, Pakistan, Libya, Palestine) 

Begin your research with these databases:

ProQuest

SIRS Knowledge Source

CQ Researcher

CultureGrams

ABC-Clio

See Ms. Moore or Email her for database passwords

Start with these websites:

UN Global Issues 

CIA Factbook 

NoodleTools

Students - sign in with google and create a project for this assignment

See THIS TUTORIAL for help with NoodleTools, if you need it - Thanks, Ms. McFerrin!

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