Design Thinking for Grade 12 World Issues
In the Design Thinking for Grade 12 World Issues, Transforming our world program, students will address the challenge of creating a more equitable and sustainable world. They will explore issues involving a wide range of topics, including economic disparities, threats to the environment, globalization, human rights and quality of life. Students will apply the concepts of geographic thinking and the geographic inquiry process, including the use of spatial technologies, to investigate these complex issues and their impacts on natural and human communities around the world. Students are driving towards answering the question, How might we nurture the economic and social development of countries without compromising natural resources?
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Curriculum Expectations
This Design Thinking for Grade 12 World Issues unit addresses a number of overall expectations from the Ministry of Ontario Curriculum.
- World Issues: A Geographic Analysis
- Overall Expectations
- A1: Geographic Inquiry
- B1: Natural Resource Disparities
- B2: Population Disparities
- B3: Classifying Regions of the World
- C2: Population Growth
- C3: Caring for the Commons
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This course contains:
- Videos
- Handouts
- Assessment
- Robust teacher's guide
- Slideshows
- Online support
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Developed by world-class educators, the program empowers students to take ownership of their learning while meeting learning goals and curriculum expectations.
Big Ideas Explored
- Design Thinking
- Global and Future Vision
- Entrepreneurship
Competencies Developed
- Critical Thinking
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Creativity
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Tenets of Exceptional Learning
- Problem Driven
- Real-World Connection
- Student Choice and Voice
- Real Solutions
- Individual Mastery
- Public Sharing