OHS World Issues Global Corespondents Podcast

Listen to it here: 

www.ohsworldissues.wikispaces.com 

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Springs of Hope

Articles to Read for Monday

Sorry for not posting the links to these articles earlier.... I'm sure that you have all be trying to read them since 3:30pm Friday afternoon, right?!

Anyway, here are the links: an article from The Economist: Coca-Cola - In hot water and an article from The New York Times Who will bring water to the Bolivian poor? 

Enjoy the beautiful weather we are having this weekend. See you on Monday morning for the epic conclusion of our Town Council Meeting! 

Toxic Garbage Island

To watch more of the documentary that we looked at yesterday in class: http://www.vbs.tv/shows/toxic/garbage-island/

Water NGOs

In case someone didn't do their homework.... http://www.unicef.org/wes/index_links.html

Water for Life

STEP ONE article:

http://www.wateryear2003.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=5226&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

Read and complete the 'Notes/Thinking' chart.

Water for Life

Go to:  http://www.mtv.com/thinkmtv/features/global/water_for_life

Click 'Begin'

In the bottom right of the corner turn 'off" the sound (so we don't have 7 computers playing the music at the same time)

Hold the 'Shift' key, while you click to zoom out and find the country that you will reading about

Once you have zoomed into your country, click Water in ___________ : Understanding the Crisis in the menu on the right-hand side of the screen 

Read your country's profile (UN Fact Sheet) and make fill out your profile card that will be placed on the world map