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Countries Working Together on Global Problems

  • Grade 6
  • Social Studies
  • 1 min 20 s
  • British Columbia
  • BC6-SS-16

A simple map of three made-up countries beside a shared sea shows four global issues crossing borders: a pandemic spreading, fish swimming between countries' waters, crops failing in a famine, and air pollution drifting. As each issue appears, a list beside the map fills in one way countries respond (the WHO helps them share information, they agree on fishing limits, they send food aid, they agree to cut pollution), and the video ends on three common ways of working together and a one-line recap.

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The question this lesson answers

Why do countries need to work together on some problems?

Some problems do not stop at a country's border.

Transcript

What the lesson says

Why do countries need to work together on some problems?

Some problems do not stop at a country's border.

Problems that affect many countries are called global issues.

Here are four of them: pandemics, fisheries, famine and the environment.

A pandemic is a disease that spreads to many countries.

The World Health Organization, or WHO, helps countries share information about it.

At sea, fish swim freely across borders.

So countries agree on fishing limits, to leave enough fish to breed.

A famine is a serious lack of food, for example when crops fail.

Other countries send food aid to help.

Air pollution drifts across borders too.

Countries sign agreements to cut pollution and protect the environment.

Countries often work together by sharing information, making agreements and sending help.

Global issues cross borders, so countries work together to deal with them.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 6

Social Studies, Global issues: international cooperation and responses to global issuesBC6-SS-16

Previous: Globalization: How Countries Depend on Each OtherNext: Why Conflicts Start: Borders, Resources and Power

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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