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Development
Brazil
Kenya
Italy
Japan
UK
Development
(Unit 1)
Development
Education Program: Education for Sustainable Development
http://www.worldbank.org/depweb/
This site has been created by the World Bank. It provides
an excellent range of online activities about sustainable
development for use in the classroom. The focus of the
site is a collection of Learning Modules. These are divided
into three sectors - social, economic and environmental.
Each sector contains modules that explore different issues
of sustainable development through a specific indicator.
Currently, these include population growth rate, gross
national product (GNP) per capita , and access to safe
water. Over time, we will add more sectors and learning
modules, as well as improve and build upon the existing
ones, incorporating new data and feedback and suggestions
from users like you.
There is a collection of maps and charts showing development
information, with online activities, which will enhance
pupils' abilities to interpret data. There is even an
opportunity for students around the world to contribute
to the Sustainable Development Post, an online newspaper.
The site also includes a glossary of development terms.
This site extends the activities provided in Places,
particularly the section about sustainable development
on pages 12-13.
There are a number of ways the website could be used in
the Geography classroom.
Brazil
(Unit 2)
Brazilian
Embassy in London
http://www.brazil.org.uk/
This website has been developed by the Brazilian Embassy
in London. The homepage of the site provides links to
a range of topics: basic information about Brazil; an
environmental section including a collection of excellent
articles about the deforestation of the Amazon from the
Brazilian Government's perspective; and a human rights
section outlining government initiatives to deal with
street children.
Brazilian
Institute of Geography and Statistics IBGE
http://www.ibge.gov.br/english/
This site provides a wide range of statistical data about
Brazil, which can be used by teachers and pupils throughout
Unit 2 of Places.
BEM-VINDO
AO BRASIL
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~sergiok/brasil.html
This site is more for the teacher to develop additional
resources. There is a good range of material, but the
site is in need of an overhaul - many of the links no
longer work.
Tribal
people (pages 26-29)
Instituto Socioambiental Brazil
http://www.socioambiental.org/website/english/
Instituto Socioambiental is a private non-profit-making
institution, established to propose integrated solutions
to social and environmental issues in Brazil. Its main
objective is to defend social goods and rights, both collective
and diffuse, relating to the environment, cultural heritage,
human rights and peoples.
A wealth of information is provided about tribal people
in Brazil, including data about each tribe, population
figures, and the issues that they face.
Kenya
(Unit 3)
Kenyaweb
http://www.kenyaweb.com/
This site includes information about physical and human
geography as well as climate. Text is provided about different
tribal groups, which would link well to the sections about
the Maasai on pages 50-51.
Italy
(Unit 4)
'Italia
On-line'
http://schools.channel4.com/italia/
This site is designed to complement the Place and People
television series on Italy and contains sophisticated
interactive resources which are freely available for schools.
'Italia On-line' provides self-contained exercises employing
maps, tables and statistics which will allow the information
on Italy to be compared and contrasted with UK equivalents.
The website will be updated and developed over the three
years that the Place and People series is broadcast
by Channel 4 Schools.
Embassy
of Italy in the United States
http://www.italyemb.org/
Pupils can obtain a range of useful information from this
website to supplement their studies from the unit in Places.
The general information section includes some very good
detailed maps of the country. The economic and statistical
section includes a range of data from the census.
In
Italy Online
http://www.initaly.com/
This is an online tour guide to Italy based in California,
USA. The site provides a wide range of useful information
about different regions in Italy.
(pages
70-71)
Valle d'Aosta
http://www.initaly.com/regions/valdsta/valdsta.htm
This online tour guide provides a range of information
about the region including a map and collection of photographs.
(pages
76-77)
Directory of links for Milan
http://www.citylightsnews.com/ztmilink.htm
Japan
(Unit 5)
Japan
Information Network
http://jin.jcic.or.jp/
This is a really excellent site which offers the user
a wealth of information about the country to tie in with
studies of Japan on pages 86-109 of Places. The
statistical section offers data and charts on almost every
aspect of the country. The Kids section includes a simplified
map of Japan. The site even includes a detailed online
atlas of Japan.
The United Kingdom
(Unit 6)
London
via LondonTown.com - the official Internet Site for London,
England:
http://www.visitlondon.com
Millennium
Dome
http://www.dome2000.co.uk/
ICT Activities
- Places
How
else may development be measured?
The best of
Brazil
Holidays in
Kenya
Japan - a land
of volcanoes and earthquakes
Teacher
Notes
The following are ICT Activities related to those
provided in the Places pupils' book. You could
copy and paste the text into a wordprocessing file
or DTP software to create your own activity sheets,
amending the text provided to suit the needs of your
particular pupils, and your school's software. |
ICT Activity 1
How else may development be measured?
(pages 10-11)
This is an ICT version of Activity 1 on page 11.
ICT applications used: internet or CD-ROM database, spreadsheet,
wordprocessor
(a)
Use the United Nations CyberSchoolBus website:
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/
The InfoNation database can be found in the Resource section
of the website, or use the Population Concern Population
& Development Database CD-ROM to research similar
statistics to those on page 11 of Places, for 10
different countries, half more economically developed
countries (MEDCs) and the other half less economically
developed countries (LEDCs).
(b)
Enter the data into a spreadsheet, with a second column
for each set of data to enter the ranking for each country.
The Sort facility of the spreadsheet can be used to rank
the countries for each data set.
(c)
In the Total column create a formula to total the ranking
scores for each country. Again the total column can be
sorted using the spreadsheet tools to determine the level
of development for each country.
(d)
You could create charts from the raw data for the different
measures of development or from the final ranking scores.
(e)
Wordprocess paragraphs describing the features of the
least developed and most developed countries. You could
copy and paste some of your charts into this analysis
of your findings.
ICT Activity 2
The best of Brazil (Activity
5, pages 20-21)
ICT applications used: internet, DTP software
Design
a poster advertising Brazil as a holiday destination,
using Desk Top Publishing software. Include a map, labelled
photographs and short descriptions. Make the poster as
colourful and interesting as possible, using the DTP software
tools to create shaded boxes. Include clipart in your
design - the headings could be produced using WordArt.
Collect some travel brochures to give you some design
ideas.
You will find useful resources at the following Brazilian
travel websites:
Brasil
Travel
http://www.brasiltravel.com/
Brazilian
Fiesta Tours
http://www.brazilianfiesta.com
This site includes some excellent digital images that
you could download and then copy and paste into your poster.
Remember to use the DTP tools to label the image.
Brazil
Traveling
http://www.braziltraveling.com/
You
could find other travel websites for Brazil by using a
search engine, for example:
Infoseek
http://infoseek.go.com/
AltaVista
http://www.altavista.com/
ICT Activity 3
Holidays in Kenya (Activity
2, pages 44-45)
ICT applications used: internet, DTP software
Design
a poster for Kenya's Tourist Office, using DTP software.
The poster should show the attractions of either:
a) a safari holiday, or
b) a beach resort holiday.
Try
to include:
•
a
map
• a labelled photograph or a collage of photographs
• a short written description.
Make
the poster as colourful and interesting as possible, using
the DTP software tools to create shaded boxes. Include
clipart in your design - the headings could be produced
using WordArt. Collect some travel brochures to give you
some design ideas.
You will find useful resources at the following Kenyan
travel websites:
Africa
Online
http://www.africaonline.co.ke/
From the homepage click on the Travel link. This will
take you to a range of information about travelling to
Kenya. It also provides further links to a wide variety
of Kenyan tour company websites.
Kenya
Travel, Inc
http://www.kenya-travels.com/
This is a very good site, including information on both
beach and safari holidays.
Kenya
Tourist Board
http://www.kenyatourism.org/
This excellent site includes information on every possible
aspect of tourism in Kenya. It includes an excellent range
of photographs, but there are some copyright restrictions
on their use.
BZ's
Kenya Travel Guide
http://www.bwanazulia.com/kenya/
This site includes a collection of holiday photographs
taken in different areas of Kenya.
You
could find other travel websites for Kenya by using a
search engine, for example:
Infoseek
http://infoseek.go.com/
AltaVista
http://www.altavista.com/
ICT Activity 4
Japan - a land of volcanoes and earthquakes
(Activity 2, pages 88-89)
ICT applications used: internet, DTP software
Design
a front page for a newspaper covering the Kobe earthquake.
Use a DTP program to produce the front page. Try to include
the following:
• an eye-catching headline
• a map to show where the earthquake took place
• an explanation of the causes of the earthquake,
including a diagram
• a paragraph describing the main effects of the
earthquake, including eyewitness accounts and labelled
photographs showing the effects.
You
can use the internet to find the relevant information.
You can copy and paste maps, diagrams and photographs
into your DTP page. Any text that you copy and paste should
be first placed into a wordprocessor file for you to edit,
before you export it into your DTP page. Include an acknowledgements
section to say where you found your information.
You will find the information you need from the following
internet sites:
University
of California, Berkeley
http://nisee.berkeley.edu/kobe_images.html
This link provides a small collection of excellent digital
images of the Kobe earthquake. These will be ideal to
show the effects of the earthquake. You will need to acknowledge
the source on your DTP page.
An
EQE Summary Report, April 1995 on the Kobe earthquake
http://www.eqe.com/publications/kobe/kobe.htm
EQE International is one of the leading independent risk
management companies offering all-risk services to businesses,
industries and governments. This is a very detailed report
of the earthquake disaster. It includes an excellent collection
of digital images showing the effects of the earthquake.
The
City of Kobe
http://www.city.kobe.jp/index-e.html
This website includes a detailed record of the earthquake
disaster, including a day-by-day pictorial record of the
events.
Staffordshire
Learning Net
http://www.sln.org.uk/geography/wl1a.htm
Chris Durbin's Japan weblinks includes a small collection
of eyewitness accounts of the earthquake, provided by
some elementary and high school students.
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