Contemporary Issues
Presentation
Work individually or with a partner. Choose an issue that
interests you and complete research on the issue to present to your class in a
five-minute presentation.
You may choose any issue that is
approved by your teacher, to help you brainstorm issues, here are some
examples: poverty, obesity, environment, global warming, pollution, water
shortages, water pollution, education, bullying, healthcare, food shortages, globalization,
etc..
Consider the following questions to help you organize and
develop a thorough presentation:
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What is the issue?
·
Is it a prominent issue in a specific country or a
global issue?
·
What is the history of this issue? Has it been an
issue in the past or is it relatively new?
·
What’s currently happening with this issue right now?
·
Does this issue have a lot of support from the
public? What kinds of people support this issue?
·
Why is it an important issue?
·
Why is it a problem?
·
What can people do to help prevent this from becoming
a larger issue?
·
What will happen if people don’t do anything about
this issue?
·
What are your predictions regarding this issue for
the future?
Checklist
I…
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Chose an issue that interests me ____
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Explain the issue ____
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Determine its prominence in the world ____
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Explain the history of the issue ____
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Explain recent events with this issue ____
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Explain the issue’s support ____
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Explain its importance ____
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Explain why it’s a problem ____
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Preventative measures (what can people do to prevent
the issue from becoming worse?) ____
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Explain the consequences of this issue ____
·
Voice predictions about this issue ____
Research
Notes
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Resource
(book, website, magazine,)
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1.
What is
the issue? Explain the issue. Why did you choose it?
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2.
Is it a
prominent issue in a specific country or a global issue? List the countries
this issue is most common in.
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3.
What is
the history of this issue? Has it been an issue in the past or is it relatively
new?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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4.
What’s
currently happening with this issue right now?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
5.
Does this
issue have a lot of support from the public? What kinds of people support this
issue?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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6.
Why is it
an important issue?
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7.
Why is it
a problem?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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8.
What can
people do to help prevent this from becoming a larger issue?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
9.
What will
happen if people don’t do anything about this issue?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
10.What are your predictions regarding this issue for
the future?
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