Activity 1: One picture is worth a thousand words
The idea for this activity comes from the Global education project. More resources can be found on their website by following the link provided.
This page contains 6 different images of globalisation. Working in pairs or small groups students should answer the following questions about each picture:
Following this students will be expected to complete one of two activities
Option 1: Find and critique 4 more images of globalisation using the same leading questions:
Option 2: Or students they can create their own image of globalisation, when creating the image students should consider:
Links to the curriculum:
This page contains 6 different images of globalisation. Working in pairs or small groups students should answer the following questions about each picture:
- What is it about?
- How does the image make you feel?
- Who is the image for? Who is the audience
- Is the image mainly positive, mainly negative, not sure?
Following this students will be expected to complete one of two activities
Option 1: Find and critique 4 more images of globalisation using the same leading questions:
- What is it about?
- How does the image make you feel?
- Who is the image for? Who is the audience
- Is the image mainly positive, mainly negative, not sure?
Option 2: Or students they can create their own image of globalisation, when creating the image students should consider:
- The message they are trying to convey
- What do you want the audience to feel?
- Who is the audience?
Links to the curriculum:
- The perceptions people have of place, and how this influences their connections to different places
- The ways that places and people are interconnected with other places through trade in goods and services, at all scales (ACHGK067)
- The effects of the production and consumption of goods on places and environments throughout the world and including a country from North-East Asia (ACHGK068)
- Present findings, arguments and explanations in a range of appropriate communication forms, selected for their effectiveness and to suit audience and purpose; using relevant geographical terminology, and digital technologies as appropriate (ACHGS070)
Online Activity 1: Where does my stuff come from?
Using the National Geographic global closet calculator. Students produce a map of their interdependencies based on the clothes in their closets. This activity is limited by the fact that it requires students to be at home. However it can be used as a great extension activity, and results can be brought back into the classroom.
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Online Activity 2: The unfair factory
Unfair factory is a game designed in the lead up to the London Olympic games. It's aim, to shed light on the conditions endured by sweat shop workers whose labor produces some of the most popular sports wear labels. The game can be found here: Unfair Factory
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Resource 1: Sweat shops (Article)
This resource is an article from the Daily Mail (UK) looking at a Chinese 'sweatshop' factory where workers are paid just £1.12 per hour to produce iPhones and iPads. Conditions are so poor that the factories covered in suicide nets to stop workers leaping to their deaths and 18 people have killed themselves at the facility to date. The article is from January 2013.
Read more here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103798/Revealed-Inside-Apples-Chinese-sweatshop-factory-workers-paid-just-1-12-hour.html#ixzz2jXnkItu5 Links to the curriculum:
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Resource 2: The story of electronics (Video)
Part of the story of stuff project. Each year we produce 25 million tons of e-waste and counting. Host Annie Leonard takes viewers from the mines and factories where our gadgets begin to the horrific backyard recycling shops in China where many end up. The film concludes with a call for a green 'race to the top' where designers compete to make long-lasting, toxic-free products that are fully and easily recyclable.
You can watch the video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW_7i6T_H78 Links to the curriculum:
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Resource 4: Biofuel and globalisation (Video)
Biofuels have been touted by many to be the solution to emissions. But in this globalised world who bears the cost of the production of biofuels.
Find the video here: Biofuel and globalisation Links to the curriculum:
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Resource 3: The story of solutions (Video)
Part of the story of stuff project. The Story of Solutions explores how we can move our economy in a more sustainable and just direction, starting with orienting ourselves toward a new goal. That is moving away from simply trying to acquire more stuff to aiming for something better. The video runs for 9 minutes and was published in October 2013.
You can watch the video at: .http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpkRvc-sOKk#t=76 Links to the curriculum:
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