Grades 3-5
Globalization, Robots & You: Navigating Tomorrow’s Economy
Objective
Teachers will be able to:
– Review globalization concepts to analyze its impact it has on education and career choices.
– Experience Globalization, Robots & You curriculum as your students would by interacting with several online resources.
Standards
Concepts
In this economics webinar, use MRU’s curriculum to help students make informed education/career decisions based on globalization trends.
Description
Marginal Revolution University’s (MRU) 5-day curriculum — both online and in-class versions —is highly flexible, easily editable and Google doc-based.
Easily integrates a variety of instructional technologies using four videos plus five interactive activities, to be used separately or as a complete unit.
Students can relate the history of globalization to their own lives using the blockbuster Avengers movie, play an economics-trends guessing game on creative destruction and apply globalization’s economics and personal finance concepts to future education and career choices.
Resources
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