DO NOW:

• Please sign out a computer ( There are only 23 Chrome Books so you will need to share.) Go to my School Center site.

• All the documents are located there under Unit 15 The Modern World. The activity/lesson plan we are completing today is The World Organizations Scavenger Hunt.

• Thank you.

World OrganizationsActivity: Scavenger Hunt

Directions

• In this activity you will research and discuss information about Six World Organizations created after World War II: – The United Nations– International Monetary Fund (IMF)– World Bank– General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade (GATT)/World

Trade Organization (WTO)– European Union EU– NAFTA

Step 1

Each member of your 6-member group will be assigned a World Organization to research:– Group Member A: The United Nations – Group Member B: International Monetary Fund– Group Member C: World Bank– Group Member D: GATT (General Agreement on

Tariffs and Trade)/ World Trade Organization– Group Member E: European Union (EU)– Group Member F: NAFTA (North American Free

Trade Agreement

Step 2

• When I say, “move” you will go to the area indicated in the room. – Group Member A: right front corner of room– Group Member B: right back corner of room– Group Member C: left back corner of room– Group Member D: left front corner of room– Group Member E: Center of the room back table– Group Member F: Center of the room front table– After you move form a circle with your new group.

•Please move quickly into your new groups

Step 3

• The computers will be divided among the groups. Your teacher will assign one group member to obtain a certain number of computers and another group member to pick up the worksheets for all your team members, World Organizations Scavenger Hunt”.

• Note – you may have to share a computer with another group member.• Everything you need is located on my school center site.

Step 4

• Work with your group members to research your assigned organization and complete the worksheet, – “World Organizations Scavenger Hunt”.

• Group Member A: The United Nations • Group Member B: International Monetary Fund• Group Member C: World Bank• Group Member D: GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and

Trade)/ World Trade Organization– Group Member E: European Union (EU)– Group Member F: NAFTA (North American Free Trade

Agreement

• Note: Be sure you understand the information because you will teach your home group members about your organization.

Step 5

• Now that you have completed your “scavenger hunt”, return the computers and go back to your home group.

• You will now teach your group about your assigned world organization.

• You must DISCUSS the answers on your worksheet while they write down the answers. Be sure to answer any questions they may have.

• Go in order beginning with group member A

Page Numbers: How to split up your notebook for the activity

• Holding your notebook landscape style split and label the following pages

• Pg. 189 United Nations part 1 on the left, United Nations Part 2 on the right

• Pg. 190 Left- International Monetary fund on the right World Bank, Right World Bank

• Pg. 191 Left- GATT, Right- NAFTA

• Pg. 192 You don’t have to split it because it is the last one use it for the European Union (EU)

• All of the questions for the first four are on one document. The ones for the last two are on a separate document

Wrap-UpWorld Organizations

Using the chart below, answer the questions on the worksheet:

General Assembly and Security Council of the United Nations

The United Nations

• Who: 191 members including the U.S. • What: Organization of countries of the world

• Why: To bring all nations of the world together to work for peace and global development.

• Where: headquarters in New York City

• When: Oct. 24, 1945

- Universal Declaration of Human Rights» Keeps peace in the world» Friendly relations between countries» Helps people live better lives» Eliminate poverty, disease, and illiteracy» Stop environmental destruction

United Nations Headquarters: New York City

Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both

Article 1

• All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Article 2

• Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

Article 3•Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

Article 4• No one shall be held in slavery

or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

Article 5

No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Article 6•Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

Article 7• All are equal before the law and are

entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.

Article 8• Everyone has the right to an

effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.

Article 9• No one shall be subjected to

arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

Article 10• Everyone is entitled in full equality

to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.

Article 11• (1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the

right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defense.

• (2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.

Article 12• No one shall be subjected to arbitrary

interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honor and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

Article 13• (1) Everyone has the right to

freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.• (2) Everyone has the right to leave

any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

Article 14• (1) Everyone has the right to

seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Promotion of stability in the exchange rates of currencies. To assist nations suffering from short-term balance payment problems, or imbalances in their imports and exports or financial transactions with the rest of the world

World Bank

Finance postwar reconstruction and economic development in less developed nations

• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)

– Reduce trade barriers

– Tried to combat the rise of worldwide protectionism that had preceded WWII

World Trade Organization

• It is a forum for governments to negotiate trade agreements.

• It is a place for them to settle trade disputes. It operates a system of trade rules.

• Essentially, the WTO is a place where member governments try to sort out the trade problems they face with each other.