Physical Features, Climate, and Natural Resources Influnce on Settlement

The most interesting thing I learned is that physical features, climate, and natural resources don’t really affect settlement now because we have planes, cars, and boats so transportation barriers don’t really affect us. Also we have supermarkets and other stores where we can buy our food so settling in a place that is good for farming isn’t as important anymore. But many years ago when we didn’t have these luxuries physical features, climate, and natural resources did affect where you settled.  I am most proud of the part of my sketchnote where I drew live with flowers and trees and live with an x through it. This was meant to show where people would live and not live. So under live with the flowers and trees there was things that would make someone want to settle in a place. Under live with an x through it there were things that would make someone not want to settle in a place. This showed the positive and negative influence on settlement.

Globalization and Sketchnotes

My Sketchnotes

I have learned a lot about globalization in the last couple of weeks. The most interesting thing I have learned is the impact of globalization. I have always know that a lot of the objects I own aren't made in the U.S. are made in different places but I have never known the effects it has on everyone involved good and bad. A positive effect of globalization is less wars and more peace amongst countries because they rely on each other for trades so they can't go to war against each other or else the countries will lose the products or money the other country gives them. There were a lot of negative impacts of globalization that were really sad but not that surprising since we recently talked about the standard of living of people in developing countries. The workers who make products in some countries rights are being violated. Workers are working around the clock but getting barely any money at all in return and the working conditions in their factories are awful. But companies decided to make their products in these factories because it costs less. My favorite part of my sketchnote is the part of my sketchnote that addresses the impact of globalization. This is my favorite because I think it very clearly shows the impact of globalization for everyone.

A Deeper Understanding of Standard of Living

Standard of Living

1. A country's standard of living does not show how everyone in the country lives. The standard of living is an average so there is a lower part and a higher part to those averages. Also in sets of data there is outliers. Someone in a country could be making way more money than their country's GDP and someone could be unemployed and living in poverty and making way less money than their country's GDP.
2. The most interesting thing I have learned about standard of living is leisure time has something to do with a country's standard of living. I never really thought about how much having time off from school or work contributes to how people feel because I think I just took that for granted. Some kids my age are working hard in factories or on farms while I am sitting and watching tv. I think it is unfair that some children can’t enjoy their childhood and instead they have to work.
3. I think people with a high standard of living should help people with a low standard of living. If you have a good standard of living then it shouldn’t be a problem to help someone who isn’t doing as well but you have to help them in the right way. You can’t do everything for people with a low standard of living because they can’t just rely on other people. You have to instead give them the skills they need to get a high standard of living

Infographic for France's Standard of Living

1. Piktochart