Introducing Global Development
Starter: Complete page 1 & 2 of the worksheet below, before discussing the results as a class.
Objective: To find out about the global disparities in wealth and development.
Lesson plan - Introduction to Development - Teacher Resource
Task 1 - Watch the Teenage Affluenza video above. Why is this shown right at the start of a unit on development? How does this affect our approach to viewing the world?
Resource 1- PowerPoint - Introduction to development and the Global Rich List (Slide 1-6)
Task 2 - Watch the two other videos beneath. MTV Cribs and the Make Poverty History Campaign. Fill in this sheet with your responses.
Task 3 - Now complete the diamond 9 activity on the second page of the starter worksheet pack.
Task 4 - How can life expectancy be measured. Take the interactive test here. Follow the instructions to find out how long you are likely to live for.
Complete the tasks on this worksheet.
Task 5 - Now we are going to focus on wealth distribution in the world. To do this, you need to find out the GDP per capita of your home country. Type this in to Google. For example, the current GDP per capita of France is $45,804. (source) This is about €40,780.
GDP per capita is a measure of a country's economic output that accounts for its number of people. It divides the country's gross domestic product by its total population. That makes it the best measurement of a country's standard of living. It tells you how prosperous a country feels to each of its citizens.
Now, copy this figure and enter it into this wealth calculator.
Create your own poster / infographic / PowerPoint that compares your average predicted wealth to others in the World.
Lesson plan - Introduction to Development - Teacher Resource
Task 1 - Watch the Teenage Affluenza video above. Why is this shown right at the start of a unit on development? How does this affect our approach to viewing the world?
Resource 1- PowerPoint - Introduction to development and the Global Rich List (Slide 1-6)
Task 2 - Watch the two other videos beneath. MTV Cribs and the Make Poverty History Campaign. Fill in this sheet with your responses.
Task 3 - Now complete the diamond 9 activity on the second page of the starter worksheet pack.
Task 4 - How can life expectancy be measured. Take the interactive test here. Follow the instructions to find out how long you are likely to live for.
Complete the tasks on this worksheet.
Task 5 - Now we are going to focus on wealth distribution in the world. To do this, you need to find out the GDP per capita of your home country. Type this in to Google. For example, the current GDP per capita of France is $45,804. (source) This is about €40,780.
GDP per capita is a measure of a country's economic output that accounts for its number of people. It divides the country's gross domestic product by its total population. That makes it the best measurement of a country's standard of living. It tells you how prosperous a country feels to each of its citizens.
Now, copy this figure and enter it into this wealth calculator.
Create your own poster / infographic / PowerPoint that compares your average predicted wealth to others in the World.
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Task 5 - So, how does wealth and development vary across the world?
The world has traditionally been divided into two. The Rich North & The Poor South. This was called the Brandt Line. Any country above this line was developed and wealthy and anything below was less developed and considered to be poor.
But, how relevant is this line today?
Click on the blue tab below to access a worksheet that contains your task.
The world has traditionally been divided into two. The Rich North & The Poor South. This was called the Brandt Line. Any country above this line was developed and wealthy and anything below was less developed and considered to be poor.
But, how relevant is this line today?
Click on the blue tab below to access a worksheet that contains your task.
Introducing the Human Development Index
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Watch the first 1 minute 10 seconds of the video to the right and make notes on the following:
Between 1990 - 2015.. i. What was the fall in countries classed as the LDC's? ii. What was the reduction in the number of people living in these LDC's? iii. What are the barriers to development in certain countries? |
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dollar street - gapminder
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What is Dollar Street? - You are going to spend two lessons exploring the excellent Dollar Street website. To access it, you can click the link above. Imagine the world as a street ordered by income. Everyone lives somewhere on the street. The poorest lives to the left and the richest to the right. Everybody else live somewhere in between. Welcome to visit all homes on Dollar Street!
Dollar Street documents the lives of over 264 homes in 50 countries so far, and the list is growing. In each home the photographer spends a day taking photos of up to 135 objects, like the family’s toothbrushes or favorite pair of shoes. All photos are then tagged (household function, family name and income).
Let's Play - When you access the site, it will order the houses visited in terms of the income. Poorest on the left, middle incomes in the middle and richest on the right. Spend 10 minutes clicking on different people's homes and have a look around and read up on the family in question. You might notice that there are some countries in places you perhaps wouldn't expect.
Keep Playing - Now go back to the homepage, and click on the first drop down menu. Look at the third column, 'All Topics' and have a look through the list of the items photographed. Click on 'Tables with Food' and see how diets and varieties of food vary from household to household and according to wealth.
Task 1 - Which 'factors' best show level of development?
You aim is to choose YOUR TOP THREE FACTORS from that 'All Topics' list that YOU think show how developed a country is.
Select the first factor and then carefully choose one image from each column to show the four different levels of development (you might want to choose the poorest, the richest and two in between).
Take a note of the name of the country and the family average monthly wealth. Then copy each of the photos into the worksheet beneath. Once that is done, write down a brief summary of the change in the 'Factor' as wealth increases.
Task 2 - Do It Again!
Now repeat the steps in Task 1 for your two other factors from the list. Use the template above again for these tasks.
Task 3 - Development Disparities Within A Country
So, you have probably seen that some countries come up in different columns meaning that wealth is very varied within the country. One big drawback of using development indicators such as GDP Per Capita, Literacy or Life Expectancy on their own is that they don't show regional disparities.
As an example, click on China. Check out the massive range of development within the most populous country on Earth.
Choose, three countries that have a large disparity in the level of development within by choosing a family from each of the four development columns. Read about the family and then paste their image into the worksheet below followed by a brief description of them and why they are at that particular level.
Underneath, in the last space available, write which factors change the most within that country as you move from the poorest to the richest (e.g. quality of the car, amount of food etc.).
Task 4 - Do It Again!
Now repeat the steps from Task 3 for your two remaining countries. Use the template above again for these tasks.
Measuring Development - HDI League
(Norway & Sierra Leone)
Objective: To find out what HDI means, what it measures and how is it calculated.
Starter: Watch the two videos at the bottom of this section to introduce both countries.
Task 1 - Answer the following questions: Use this worksheet to complete the following tasks. The Wikipedia page here will help.
1. What does HDI stand for?
2. Name the three composite indicators that are included in HDI.
3. On what scale is HDI measured?
4. Which is the highest and lowest value?
5. Give examples of values and what those represent.
Task 2 - Click here to be taken to an interactive world map and graph of countries linked to the HDI rating.
Individually, click on Sierra Leone, Norway, France and your home country (Spain, Germany etc). Look underneath the graph and record the key data for each country on your worksheet.
Using your worksheet, describe the trends shown on the graph that opens up making sure you talk about the value in 1990 and the value today as well as the shape of the line and anything unusual that happens.
Task 3 - Working in pairs, add a table with two rows and two columns. Spend 5 minutes compiling a fact box on either Norway or Sierra Leone. When complete, share your facts with your partner and they can fill in their table with information
PowerPoint - Sierra Leone and Norway Comparison
Starter: Watch the two videos at the bottom of this section to introduce both countries.
Task 1 - Answer the following questions: Use this worksheet to complete the following tasks. The Wikipedia page here will help.
1. What does HDI stand for?
2. Name the three composite indicators that are included in HDI.
3. On what scale is HDI measured?
4. Which is the highest and lowest value?
5. Give examples of values and what those represent.
Task 2 - Click here to be taken to an interactive world map and graph of countries linked to the HDI rating.
Individually, click on Sierra Leone, Norway, France and your home country (Spain, Germany etc). Look underneath the graph and record the key data for each country on your worksheet.
Using your worksheet, describe the trends shown on the graph that opens up making sure you talk about the value in 1990 and the value today as well as the shape of the line and anything unusual that happens.
Task 3 - Working in pairs, add a table with two rows and two columns. Spend 5 minutes compiling a fact box on either Norway or Sierra Leone. When complete, share your facts with your partner and they can fill in their table with information
PowerPoint - Sierra Leone and Norway Comparison
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Snakes & Ladders - HDI
Objective: To find out which factors hinder development and which factors help development.
Task 1 - You are going to be completing your own snakes and ladders board game, like the one in the photo beneath. To do this, you will need the following resources.
Resource 1 - Snakes & Ladders Board
Resource 2 - Snakes & Ladders Scenarios
Resource 3 - Chance Cards
A ladder would indicate something that would boost development (medical breakthrough, peace, technology, education, jobs) whilst a snakes head would indicate something that would hinder development (war, disease, famine, dictator, natural hazard etc)
Try to attribute the current HDI values against places on the board. In 2018, the highest placed HDI country was Norway with 0.949 (so square 95 on the board) and the lowest is Central African Republic with 0.352 (so square 35 on the board). The current HDI league table can be found by clicking here.
Any snakes head or foot of the ladder before square 35 should be a historical event that would have positively or negatively influenced the level of development in a country (see the first three examples in Resource 2 above).
You can create up to 5 chance cards to insert anywhere in the game. This can be positive or negative scenarios that could reflect current political events etc.
The Snakes and Ladders rules are here just in case.
Task 1 - You are going to be completing your own snakes and ladders board game, like the one in the photo beneath. To do this, you will need the following resources.
Resource 1 - Snakes & Ladders Board
Resource 2 - Snakes & Ladders Scenarios
Resource 3 - Chance Cards
A ladder would indicate something that would boost development (medical breakthrough, peace, technology, education, jobs) whilst a snakes head would indicate something that would hinder development (war, disease, famine, dictator, natural hazard etc)
Try to attribute the current HDI values against places on the board. In 2018, the highest placed HDI country was Norway with 0.949 (so square 95 on the board) and the lowest is Central African Republic with 0.352 (so square 35 on the board). The current HDI league table can be found by clicking here.
Any snakes head or foot of the ladder before square 35 should be a historical event that would have positively or negatively influenced the level of development in a country (see the first three examples in Resource 2 above).
You can create up to 5 chance cards to insert anywhere in the game. This can be positive or negative scenarios that could reflect current political events etc.
The Snakes and Ladders rules are here just in case.
Food Supply and Malnutrition
Objective: To learn a little more about the issues facing people with limited access to food around the world and the features and extent of malnutrition.
Resources
Wider World - Geography Textbook page 110-111
Starter - Watch the video underneath that was produced by school students in New Zealand (HIC). Make notes using the guidelines to the right of the video. You might want to copy and paste these questions into a word document or print out and fill in by hand this worksheet.
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Task 1 - Study this PowerPoint presentation carefully.
Task 2 - Turn to page 110 and 111 in Geography Wider World. Read over the text carefully, study the maps and diagrams then complete this worksheet. Task 3 - Click on this link from the BBC. You have studied the impacts of malnutrition on children in some of the poorest countries in the world (LIC's) but what about in HIC's? Does malnutrition exist there? Then check out this article from the Guardian. Read the article linked above and make notes on the impacts of eating the wrong (mal) sorts of foods in large quantities. |
Questions about Global Food Crisis (GFC)
0:00. How many people are 'hungry' in the world in how many different countries? 1:30 - How has the global food crisis been affected by price of food? 2:40 - What is the difference between the % spend on food in an MEDC and an LEDC? 4:40 - How does climate affect global food supply. Give examples. 6:03 - How has the lack of recent Research & Development helped the food crisis to develop and force more people to live in cities? 7:00 - How does the cost of oil affect the price of food? 3 examples. 7:50 - How do bio fuels contribute to the Global Food Crisis? 8:56 - How does an increase in population contribute to the GFC? 10:28 - How can a shortage of food lead to higher food prices? 11:20 - How can we react to the GFC? Outline at least three ways. |
Food Distribution - The Cake Game
Europe with nearly 1/3 of the whole cake!
Objective: To find out about the inequalities that exist with the supply and provision of food in the developed and developing world (and to eat some cake)
Lesson Plan
PowerPoint
Table Labels
Chance Cards
Continent Cards - To be picked out by each student
How to divide up the cake
This takes some organisation and just about fits in to an hour lesson.
Lesson Plan
PowerPoint
Table Labels
Chance Cards
Continent Cards - To be picked out by each student
How to divide up the cake
This takes some organisation and just about fits in to an hour lesson.
Follow Up Task - Gathering our thoughts about global food supplies.
"Moving up the development ladder does not free a country from the effects of malnutrition". To what extent do you agree with this statement?
Paragraph 1. Write a summary paragraph of which continent you were placed in and your thoughts about how much cake you ate compared to other students in the class. Were you overfed, underfed or just got enough? Study the PowerPoint above, the Chance Cards and the 'How do Divide up the Cake' link too.
Paragraph 2 - What does malnutrition mean and how is it different to undernourished?
Paragraph 3 - What type of malnourishment affects global LIC's and what causes this?
Paragraph 4 - What type of malnourishment affects HIC's and what is the cause of this?
Paragraph 5 - Suggest at least one solution to combat the unequal distribution of food around the world.
Paragraph 6 - Higher Level Extension (economics study) - what are the disadvantages of Food Aid? How can it actually harm local food production?
"Moving up the development ladder does not free a country from the effects of malnutrition". To what extent do you agree with this statement?
Paragraph 1. Write a summary paragraph of which continent you were placed in and your thoughts about how much cake you ate compared to other students in the class. Were you overfed, underfed or just got enough? Study the PowerPoint above, the Chance Cards and the 'How do Divide up the Cake' link too.
Paragraph 2 - What does malnutrition mean and how is it different to undernourished?
Paragraph 3 - What type of malnourishment affects global LIC's and what causes this?
Paragraph 4 - What type of malnourishment affects HIC's and what is the cause of this?
Paragraph 5 - Suggest at least one solution to combat the unequal distribution of food around the world.
Paragraph 6 - Higher Level Extension (economics study) - what are the disadvantages of Food Aid? How can it actually harm local food production?
Fast Food Consumption Globally
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Global Village - 100 People
Objective: To discover important global development patterns by shrinking the world to one small village.
Lesson Plan - Teacher Resource
Background Interactive Research - Click here to be taken to a town representing 100 people on earth. You will need headphones for this task. Have a good look around the city. Remember three facts to share with the class after 5 minutes.
ICT Resource - Click here
Resource 1
PowerPoint - Introduction to the concept
Resource 2*
Task Sheet
Resource 3*
Mark Scheme
*Resources created by Ann Cousins and Anne Harper at Meadowhead School.
Resource 4 - Infographic
This activity takes approximately 2 lessons and the end product is an imaginative display showing the global inequalities that exist. Students normally give a brief oral presentation to say why and how they came up with their design.
Lesson Plan - Teacher Resource
Background Interactive Research - Click here to be taken to a town representing 100 people on earth. You will need headphones for this task. Have a good look around the city. Remember three facts to share with the class after 5 minutes.
ICT Resource - Click here
Resource 1
PowerPoint - Introduction to the concept
Resource 2*
Task Sheet
Resource 3*
Mark Scheme
*Resources created by Ann Cousins and Anne Harper at Meadowhead School.
Resource 4 - Infographic
This activity takes approximately 2 lessons and the end product is an imaginative display showing the global inequalities that exist. Students normally give a brief oral presentation to say why and how they came up with their design.
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Blood Diamonds
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Objective: To understand how and where diamonds form and the impacts that they have on communities around the world.
Task 1 - Click on the blue tab (right) to access the video for this lesson. Videos 1 & 2 are below. **2017 Update** Read this article about a recently discovered diamond in Sierra Leone. Make notes on the characteristics of the diamond, its potential value and why it was so unusual to be found by the Pastor (religious leader). |
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Task 2 - Click here to access some NGO material on Blood or Conflict diamonds.
i. Click on the Infographic and spend five minutes reading through the information. Make a note of what you consider to be the top 5 bits of information within. ii. Blood diamonds cause issues with violence, labour and the environment. Make some notes (not copy and paste) on how the diamonds can promote these problems. iii. What is the 'KIMBERLEY PROCESS'? Why was it introduced and what are the criticisms of it? |
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Global Diamonds - Movers & Shakers
*Thanks to Global Eye, Noel Jenkins and Wycombe High School
Imagine you are one of the movers and shakers in the diamond chain. In groups of five:
Imagine you are one of the movers and shakers in the diamond chain. In groups of five:
- Each choose a different location on the map below.
- Open the documents below to find out who you are.
- Read your profile to find out what you do.
- Ask each other questions to learn about each other’s lives in the diamond chain.
- Together, make a flow diagram to summarise your five lives and how you are connected.
Your Interactive Display
"Who gives a damn about the ice on your hand - If it’s not too complex tell me how many Africans died for the bagguettes on your Rolex ..." Ms Dynamite: "It takes more"
You are now in the position to begin to put together your display. The display should be as interactive as possible to allow student interaction. Possible ways of making this happen are:
1. Lift up flaps
2. QR codes that take students to safe websites where they can find out more.
3. Challenge type questions
The display should aim to educate the reader on the geology, politics and socio-economic factors (positive & negative) that surround blood or conflict diamonds.
The structure of the presentation is up to you, however there needs to be an A3 map of the world as the centre piece showing the countries involved in the diamond trade (above). These locations should be linked together with flow arrows and contain financial information showing how the value of the diamonds increases as they travel through the production process (see resource 3 below).
Resources:
1. Geology and formation of diamonds - Use the information at the start of the unit.
2. The socio economic impacts of blood diamond production - Use this excellent report from Global Witness.
3. How the value of the gems increase as they move through the production chain. - Animation here (click on cash registers)
4. Diamonds - A poem from Sierra Leone
5. How can we avoid buying conflict diamonds? - An information leaflet for UK consumers. Don't forget your work on the Kimberley Process too!
6. PowerPoint with suggested structure - To give you some ideas.
1. Lift up flaps
2. QR codes that take students to safe websites where they can find out more.
3. Challenge type questions
The display should aim to educate the reader on the geology, politics and socio-economic factors (positive & negative) that surround blood or conflict diamonds.
The structure of the presentation is up to you, however there needs to be an A3 map of the world as the centre piece showing the countries involved in the diamond trade (above). These locations should be linked together with flow arrows and contain financial information showing how the value of the diamonds increases as they travel through the production process (see resource 3 below).
Resources:
1. Geology and formation of diamonds - Use the information at the start of the unit.
2. The socio economic impacts of blood diamond production - Use this excellent report from Global Witness.
3. How the value of the gems increase as they move through the production chain. - Animation here (click on cash registers)
4. Diamonds - A poem from Sierra Leone
5. How can we avoid buying conflict diamonds? - An information leaflet for UK consumers. Don't forget your work on the Kimberley Process too!
6. PowerPoint with suggested structure - To give you some ideas.
