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Issues in Globalisation: Environmental Impacts & Sustainability
Published
2011
Type
DVD
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£45.00
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Can economic growth be environmentally sustainable? In this DVD, residents of Dhaka's slums show how extreme industrial pollution is destroying their environment and health. Next we talk to Bangladesh's environmental activists, factory owners and government officials and ask what needs to be done to make industrial growth sustainable? We then see how a company sited in a UK National Park is fac...
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Our Africa website
Published
2011
Type
Film
Website- Website
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FREE
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Our Africa is a website developed by SOS Children, a charity that has been working in Africa for the past 40 years. The aim of this ambitious project is to let children across Africa film their lives and countries the way they see them.
After workshops providing training in film-making, children (ranging in age from as young as seven to as old as 23) took cameras around their vill...
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- Child rights,
- Colonialism,
- Conflict,
- Culture,
- Economy,
- Education,
- Employment,
- Farming,
- Food,
- Health,
- Industry,
- Play and toys,
- Poverty,
- Religion,
- Tourism
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The wealth of Africa
Published
2010
Type
PDF- Website
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FREE
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These free online resources from the British Museum support the teaching of the history of Africa and the history of the British Empire. They draw on the British Museum’s collection, including illustrations, photographs, textual sources and research. They are primarily aimed at the Key Stage 3 module on the development of trade, colonisation, industrialisation and technology, especially t...
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The End Of The Line
Published
2009
Type
- Website
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FREE
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A free online teaching resource from Film Education based on the documentary film 'The End Of The Line' which explores the effect of overfishing on the world's oceans.
The resource features a range of activities including key scene analysis and exploration of issues such as the impact of technology on the ocean, the impact on human populations locally, nationally and globally, and possi...
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SHOW®/World
Published
2008
Type
- Website
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FREE
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Mapping Worlds calls itself "a data visualisation and interface design company with a love for maps". It is based in Amsterdam and works with organisations such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to make data accessible to different audiences.
SHOW®/World is a Mapping Worlds initiative to provide efficient and comprehensive access to statistical data on world issu...
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- Aid,
- Conflict,
- Economy,
- Education,
- Energy,
- Environment,
- Farming,
- Food,
- Gender,
- Globalisation,
- Government,
- Health,
- HIV/Aids,
- Industry,
- Media,
- Olympics,
- Population,
- Refugees / Asylum,
- Religion,
- Rural,
- Tourism,
- Trade,
- Transport,
- Urban,
- Water
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A Crude Awakening
Published
2006
Type
- Website
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FREE
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A free online teaching resource from Film Education based on the documentary film A Crude Awakening, and designed to explore issues relating to the world’s oil reserves.
The Film Education resource provides students from a number of subject areas including, Media and Film Studies, Citizenship, English Language and Politics with an opportunity to engage with the issues raised by th...
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From Prejudice to Genocide
Published
2006
Type
Book
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£22.99
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This is a book of major importance to a wide audience of adults and older pupils, and an excellent resource for teaching about the Holocaust. It traces the history of anti-semitism, and includes the experiences of gypsies, homosexuals, people with disabilities and others who were persecuted. Themes of collaboration, indifference, obedience, dehumanisation, resistance and rescue are explored.Subjects
- Citizenship,
- ESD / global citizenship,
- History,
- Local and global citizens,
- Media studies,
- Politics,
- PSHE / PSE / PSED,
- RE / RS
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- Conflict,
- Crime,
- Democracy,
- Diversity and Inclusion,
- Economy,
- Global citizenship,
- Human rights,
- Industry,
- Peace,
- Racism,
- Refugees / Asylum,
- Religion
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Practical Answers
Published
2006
Type
- Website
Price
FREE
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Practical Action's 'Practical Answers' website has a range of downloadable Technical Briefs - free fact-sheets about appropriate technology.
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- Appropriate technology,
- Climate change,
- Development,
- Energy,
- Farming,
- Food,
- Homes and Homelessness,
- Industry,
- Natural disasters,
- Natural resources,
- Transport,
- Waste,
- Water
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Virtual Developing Country
Published
2005
Type
- Website
Price
FREE
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Providing an extensive range of teaching materials this online resource explores a number of development issues using a case study approach.
Background information on the economic history, geography and political situation of Zambia puts the study of economic development into context and provides useful data and explanation of concepts and theories. A series of virtual field trips allow...
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- Aid,
- Animal welfare,
- Climate change,
- Democracy,
- Development,
- Economy,
- Environment,
- Farming,
- Industry,
- Population,
- Rural,
- Tourism,
- Trade
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The Trading Game
The Trading Game is a simulation designed to introduce students to the realities of trade and how it affects the prosperity of a country.
The game highlights how the gap between rich and poor nations is made wider by the trading policies of the rich. It demonstrates how the poorer countries, especially those selling raw materials, have great difficulty in achieving a fair price for thei...
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- Aid,
- Debt,
- Development,
- Economy,
- Equality,
- Farming,
- Human rights,
- Industry,
- International relations,
- Poverty,
- Social justice,
- Trade
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