PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Warm-up
What is one fact that you found about the EU.
Objectives
- Identify what the European Union is.
- Analyze different features of the E.U.
- Create a poster that shows what these features are.
- Collaborate with another group to understand the functions of the EU.
Essential Question: What is the European Union and Why is it important?
Backstory:
For many centuries, Europe has had terrible wars between countries. The 1900's proved to be the worst with two world wars that left Europe in ruins.
Backstory:
In the second half of the 1900's, many European leaders and ordinary people never wanted to see such violence again, so they went about trying to make an alliance of all of the countries of Europe.
Critical Question:
What is an alliance?
What the E.U. is NOT:
NOT one country.
NOT a military alliance.
E.U. is:
"A political and economic partnership" between most of the countries of Europe that promotes democracy, human rights, and international cooperation.
E.U. provides:
One currency (the Euro).
The ability for all residents of an EU country to travel freely to another country in the E.U.
Many of these issues are discussed with a European Parliament that citizens of the E.U. elect.
