Once the students have gained awareness of the physical objects in their surrounding as waste and resources from the previous lesson, in this lesson they will learn about how the exchange of resources (and sometimes waste) connect different nations and regions. Through investigating where their everyday resources are from, students will gain an understanding that nations and regions are interrelated and interdependent. In addition, in preparation for the next lesson on the world students will get a sense of how this interrelatedness affects global dynamics of interaction