Christmas is a time that highlights the problem of inequality within the UK and globally. Watch the following video full of vox pops about poverty at Christmas. Produce your own short video highlighting the problem of inequality. Below the video are some links that you may wish to use. You have the Christmas holidays to complete this task. Bring your videos to me on a data stick in the first week back after the holidays and i will publish the best examples. Mr Cornish
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/special-reports/article.html?in_article_id=498178&in_page_id=108
http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/2010/01/i-am-considerably-richer-than-you.html
http://www.worldmapper.org/textindex/text_income.html
On Monday 6th and Tuesday 7th December Green Team members and G&T students took part in the Green Talent program at RSPB Rainham Marshes.
Read Hannah's Report here
Below is a video of students testing for carbonate to show how algae in water can capture carbon from the atmosphere and store it.
This Easter, Britons will have eaten their way through 80 million chocolate eggs, but would we have such a sweet tooth if we knew how it was harvested?
Sixty per cent of cocoa beans found in chocolate on UK shop shelves are sourced in Ghana and Ivory Coast. The programme shows Fatao, a 12 year old boy from Burkino Faso, who Panorama discovers working on a cocoa farm in Ghana. He is just one of thousands of trafficked children helping to feed the worlds appetite for chocolate
The Panorama reporter goes undercover as a cocoa trader, buying a tonne of cocoa made with Child Labour, and sees how easy it is to sell it into the supply chain which leads to our high streets.
It would be good if you could watch the whole programme to widen you knowledge of this issue. (Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=njwSEoWyMqc&feature=related) but I would like you to look particularly at Part 5 (below) which focuses on two of the major chocolate manufacturers in the UK While you watch consider the following points:
- Whose fault is Child Labour on these farms?
- Should it be the big companies such as Cadbury and Nestle that sort the problem of Child Labour? Should we boycott the companies?
- What do you think of the Child Labour logo suggested in the programme?
- How do you think the money being invested over the next 10 years should be spent to combat the problem?
Task: Write a paragraph as a response to the programme, including your thoughts on what you have seen, and comments on the key points above.
Watch this space for a new exciting G&T challenge this week!
Mr Cornish
Welcome to the Coopers’ Geography Department G&T blog. This is the space for G&T students from our school plus those from partner schools to be engaged in extension and enrichment tasks to stretch and challenge. Each half term a challenge will appear in the blog. Clicking on the title of the post, students will have the opportunity to post their own views, ideas and answers on the topic. Hopefully the area will be a hub for geographical discussion and debate for pupils all over the country. In order to post a comment, you must sign in using your school email address. All comments will be read by the administrator before they appear on the website. Download an information sheet detailing the characteristics of a gifted geography student below
Your challenge is to go to this link http://wallwisher.com/wall/climatechange and follow the instructions in the title. I would like you to post facts and information, links to news articles, photos and videos. You Can post more than one sticky if you wish. Please read all of the other posts as it will build up your knowledge and understanding of the issues facing Bangladesh.
Please read the following article http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8090277.stm. and watch the video below
Click on the title of the post, log in and write an answer to the question: Should We Take Tuna Off the Menu? Remember to check your post to see if anyone has responded to your answer. If so, you might wish to add another comment. You can also copy and paste video embed codes or weblinks to widen the discussion or bring in other opinions. Look at my example Good luck...
