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Global Village Connections Worksheet

Explore how people, places, goods and environmental choices connect across the world. Read the short scenario, then complete the questions. Use evidence from the scenario and your own reasoning.

Read the scenario

Benjamin lives in Winnipeg, Canada. At breakfast, she eats a banana grown in Ecuador and oatmeal made from oats grown in the Canadian Prairies. The banana travelled by ship and truck before reaching her grocery store. Benjamin’s family video-calls her aunt in the Philippines. Later, Benjamin learns that plastic litter left on streets can wash into storm drains, rivers and eventually the ocean. Ocean currents can carry floating litter far from where it began. Benjamin’s choices are local, but some effects can reach other places.

Trace the connections

Use the scenario to investigate how one place can be connected to another.

1.What does the term “global village” mean in this scenario?
  • A village where everyone lives in the same country
  • A way to describe how people and places around the world are connected
  • A town that grows all the food it needs
  • A place where everyone speaks the same language
2.Name one connection between Canada and another country described in the scenario. Explain what is being shared or exchanged.
3.Why might a banana travel by ship and truck before it reaches Benjamin’s grocery store?
4.True or false: A video call can connect people in different countries without moving a physical product between them.
TrueFalse
5.Complete the cause-and-effect chain: Plastic litter on a street can wash into a storm drain, then into a river, and eventually into the .
6.Match each connection in List A with the kind of link it shows in List B. Write the correct letter beside each connection. List A 1. Banana grown in Ecuador and sold in Canada 2. Benjamin video-calls her aunt in the Philippines 3. Litter travels through waterways and ocean currents List B A. Communication B. Environmental connection C. Trade and food
  • Banana grown in Ecuador and sold in Canada
  • Benjamin video-calls her aunt in the Philippines
  • Litter travels through waterways and ocean currents
  • Communication
  • Trade and food
  • Environmental connection

Think like a global citizen

A global citizen notices how choices and events can affect people and environments beyond their own community.

7.Give one reason Benjamin’s banana is an example of interdependence: people in different places rely on one another.
8.Suggest two practical actions Benjamin could take to reduce the chance that litter from her community reaches waterways.
9.Benjamin wants to choose between two breakfasts: imported bananas or oats grown in the Canadian Prairies. Explain one possible environmental consideration for each choice. Avoid assuming that one food is always the better choice.
10.Name one way people or governments in different countries could work together to reduce plastic litter in the ocean. Explain why cooperation matters.
11.Create a small symbol or slogan that shows how a local choice can have a global effect. Add one sentence explaining what your symbol or slogan means.

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  • Global Village Connections Worksheet, page 1 of 3: Read the scenario, Trace the connections

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  • Global Village Connections Worksheet, page 2 of 3: Think like a global citizen

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  • Global Village Connections Worksheet, page 3 of 3: 10. Name one way people or governments in different countries could work together to…

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