LEDC Lesson Plans

If you want to help certain LEDCs you may be able to support OXFAM'S "bRING bRING" appeal

If you have an old mobile phone that is no longer needed because you've upgraded. Remember to take out your SIM card, then take them to any Oxfam or O2 shop.

You could also produce a leaflet advertising the natural and human attractions of the country for tourists, as tourism is one way of securing foreign capital. Try to identify some of the Brazilian tour agencies.

There's an excellent set of resources courtesy of OXFAM. This is the CHOKKY CENTRAL site. It uses Chocolate biscuits as examples of how the money spent rarely goes back to the growers, and looks at the issues relating to Fairtrade. You can go through a range of activities including a BIKKIE QUIZ, a VIRTUAL VISIT to Ghana, WHO GETS THE MONEY when you buy a chocolate bar and some Teachers' Notes.

5. Try the JUSBIZ TOOLKIT. A whole range of other information is available at their site HERE.

6. This is another good activity to use with pupils. Try the GLOBAL RICH LIST site. Type in an income, and you can find where that places you in a global perspective. This may help you put the level of income we enjoy into perspective. Would you have thought that an income of £25 000 would put you into the Top 1% of wealth in the world ?

9. Download the booklet ROUGH GUIDE TO A BETTER WORLD. This is "the essential guide to how the world can be a better place for everyone. You can read it ONLINE at the site, and also download an Abobe e-book.

10. Noel Jenkins has spent some considerable time producing an excellent resource which is in the spirit of the classic TRADING TRAINERS game. He's focusing on the manufacture of T-Shirts in Indonesia, and you can download the materials, which take lots of different forms - for example, you can even compose your own Indonesian music on a gamelan.

Go to JUICY GEOGRAPHY by clicking the link, and then enjoy the experience - the game is in the WHAT's NEW section.

11. Check out the Christian Aid H2 KNOW site which includes all the materials that were sent out to schools on the mailing list in early 2005. You can see picture galleries, assembly ideas and lots of other stuff.

12. 2005 is the year when we hoped to MAKE POVERTY HISTORY - which we didn't....

Head over to the website. There is a selection of videos.

13. Useful article on the importance of a mobile phone in Africa to business people.

14. BARCODE ART

http://www.barcodeart.com/art/yourself/yourself_frames.html

This is a site I came across in early 2005, and which has recently been picked up by a few blogs recently. I featured it as part of my SAGT 2005 presentation on Virtual Communities.

The idea is that you put some personal data into a FLASH file, and it generates a barcode. You need to 'scan' the barcode and it provides you with "how much you are worth...." Try generating a number of people and investigate what difference it makes when the people are born in different countries, or have different ages. What determines how much a person is "worth".

TONY CASSIDY has produced a handy sheet for students to use at http://www.radicalgeography.co.uk/year9.html

LEDCS (LESS ECONOMICALLY DEVELOPED COUNTRIES)

LESSON PLANS