Lesson 4: Globalization, the Environment, and Resistance
Duration of Days: 3
Lesson Objective
Students will explain how globalization affected the environment and how individuals and groups resisted or adapted to global economic and cultural change.
How did globalization affect the environment?
Why did resistance movements emerge?
climate change, environmental degradation, social movements, anti-globalization
APWH Unit 9 Topics 9.4, 9.5
Skill 4.A
Reasoning Process: Contextualization
Synthesizing information from lecture-based content.
This multi-day lecture synthesizes environmental impacts and resistance movements linked to globalization.
Purpose: Content synthesis and global perspective
DOK: 2–3
Climate activism, labor movements, and global protests.
Students may treat environmental and economic issues as unrelated.
Guided notes; optional case-study extensions.
Checkpoint multiple-choice questions and discussion prompts.
Lecture slides, environmental data visuals