United Nations: 
Shaping our future together

Concepts of Geographic Thinking: Geographic Perspective, Interrelationships













Inquiry: Why might the United Nations have taken down it's page regarding Rwanda down?
Why is Rwanda missing from the list of countries that the United Nations was involved in?

source: United Nations: Shaping Our Future Together under Preventing Genocide

Activity: Gather data on the Rwandan Genocide. Conduct an issue analysis to understand the stakeholders involved. Create a spatial journal of the stakeholders involved in the Genocide, including the United Nations. Create a story map and publish it on social media so that the World does not forget about Rwanda.

New map shows which parts of Canada lag on believing in climate change.

Concepts of Geographic Thinking:

Spatial Significance, Patterns and Trends, Geographic Perspective

Inquiry: Why might different parts of Canada view Climate Change differently and how might these views be changed to represent the true threat of Climate Change?

Activity: Gather information on different industries in Canada. Collect data on impacts of Climate Change by region. Conduct and issue analysis to better understand the perspectives involved. Create an action plan that connects an communicates with people the importance of acting on climate change data via story map.

How Canada's electoral map changed after the vote

Concepts of Thinking: Spatial Significance, Patterns and Trends, Geographic Perspective

Inquiry: How might Party representation change so that a positive impact on the environment can actually become a National concern? 

Activity: Examine the two maps to build an understanding of Environmental awareness and Political leaning. Gather evidence as to why the parties view the environment the way they do. Conduct an issue analysis of the stakeholders on the environment and map it out in a spatial journal. Develop a strategy that may help all parties get on board and realistically move Canada closer to dealing with the Global Warming issue and making a real impact and communicate via story map.