What do potatoes, printing, and plague have to do with the global distribution of humans? An informative video explores globalization from the earliest migration of humans to today with a focus on these three common elements that prompt mass movement of large populations.

Concepts

globalization, printing, potatoes, plagues, agricultural revolution, the printing press

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Share more details about the Irish Potato Famine
• Currently, many countries have leaders that claim globalization is bad; debate the topic

Classroom Considerations

• Relies heavily on knowledge from the prior videos in the series
• The final video in a 16-part series
  

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Graphics hold viewers' attention
• Provides subtitles in English for the hearing impaired
• Connects history and science topics

Cons

• None