Introducing Global Development  

Starter:  Complete page 1 & 2 of the worksheet below. Don't take the phrase 'live without' too literally and go for 'obvious' things like oxygen. Think more about the items you couldn't "live without" or food or drink that, if it was taken away from you, would be really testing!  
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​Have You Contracted

​Teenage Affluenza? 

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Objective: To find out about the global disparities in wealth and development. 

Task 1 - Have you contracted Teenage Affluenza? 

a. Watch the Teenage Affluenza video to the right.

b. What is the meaning behind this (quite old) video? 

c. How can having so called 'teenage affluenza' affect our view of the world around us?


Task 2 - What are some of your daily "hardships"?

a. Think about what you have just seen those two Australian children being 'subjected to', 

b. Make a list of 10 things that we could call #firstworldproblems - The second video to the right will help you. 


Task 3 - Video Task - Comparing Extremes

a. Watch the two videos below and fill in the relevant pages on your worksheet with your responses. 

Video 1 - Inside Drake's home


​Video 2 - Make Poverty History Campaign.

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b. Around the image of Drake (singer), write some of the 'excessive things' he has and what you think he doesn't really need. 


c. Around the image of the street child, write down the limited things that has and what she really does need. 

Task 4 - What does the homeless girl need? 

a. Now complete the diamond 9 activity on the last page of your worksheet. What does the girl in the second video need? Put them in an order of importance. 


How Does Wealth Vary Around The World? 
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Task 5 - How does wealth vary around the world?

Starter - Click here and have a play! 

i.  To do this, you need to find out the GDP per capita (means per person) of your home country. You can use this Wikipedia list to find your country (use World Bank estimate figure).


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.


iv. Now, copy this figure and enter it into this wealth calculator. Choose your home country, add the GDP value in the home currency (€ £ etc) and then choose 1 adult and 0 children (gives per adult).  


v. Take a screen shot of the first two charts and copy them onto a word document. 


So, how does the average person in your home country compare to some of the richest people on Earth? 



vi.  Click here to be taken to another calculator. 


vii. Scroll down and choose your CEO (Chief Executive Officer), choose annual salary and then enter the expense amount as the GDP per capita of your home country in American $. 


viii. Play around with two or three CEO's and check out how long it takes them to earn the annual GDP per capita of your home country! Take screenshots. 


ix. Create a 'Did You Know? - Billionaires PowerPoint. Use the PowerPoint template to the right.  Your structure should be as follows:


a. What does a billion dollars look like? 

Use this site to explain to the viewer what a billion dollars looks like, and how long it would take to earn, using the example on the page? 


b. What is GDP per capita? 

What is does GDP per capita mean, and how much is it in my home country? 


c. Introducing Billionaire 1

Introduce your first billionaire. Who are they? How did they get rich? What company(ies) do they own?  Then, how long would it take them to earn the annual GDP per capita of your home country?  


d. Introducing Billionaire 2

Introduce your second billionaire. Who are they? How did they get rich? What company(ies) do they own?  Then, how long would it take them to earn the annual GDP per capita of your home country?  

e. Should we ban billionaires? 

Use this 5 minute video from the BBC. Watch it carefully. What are the arguments for banning billionaires? 


Extension - Good Billionaire / Bad Billionaire - YOU DECIDE

Choose one of the BBC Podcasts in on this page and spend some time listening to it. At the end, you get to decide if they are a good or bad billionaire. Who will you choose? How will you rate them? 
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