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Global Eye
Secondary: Teachers' Notes Autumn 2001
Introduction|Supplimentary
Resources and Useful Websites|Credits
INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the Global Eye website, an online resource based
on Global Eye, the magazine about world development written
by Worldaware for the Department of International Development
(DFID). This website won the Geographical Association's 'Gold
Award' for 2000-2001.
This is the sixth
online edition, based on Issue 16 of the magazine. The five
previous online editions can be viewed from the Back
Issue Archive section of the website. In addition, the
archive section contains pdf files for issues 1-10 of the
magazine plus teachers' notes and activity sheets, all of
which can be printed out. To search for information on particular
themes or countries, the archive section also contains an
index, providing hotlinks
to the relevant pages in previous issues.
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SUGGESTIONS FOR SUPPLEMENTARY RESOURCES
& USEFUL WEBSITES
Below you will find a range of recommended resources that
could be used in conjunction with the web pages for the students.
These are divided up under headings that fit the sections
of Global Eye Secondary.
Eye on
The Philippines
Visit www.census.gov.ph/census2000/index.html
for more information and data on the population of The Philippines,
including details of the country's census in 2000 and information
on the different regions.
For a range of maps of The Philippines and more information
about the Ifugao, visit www.ifugaos.org/ifugao.htm
"The Philippines: rice against time", a TV programme in
Channel Four's "Place and People: Asia Pacific" series looks
at subsistence rice farming, and complements the case
study. You can find out more about this programme in the
secondary geography section of www.4learning.co.uk
Focus
on Food
The World Food Programme, the UN agency aimed at combating
worldwide hunger, has a very useful website including news
updates and a photo gallery highlighting various food crises
and the work of the WFP. You can also request a free 95x68
cm colour world map on hunger. www.wfp.org
For information, data and news items related to food and agriculture,
visit the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) website,
www.fao.org/ For specific
FAO data on different crops, livestock, etc in individual
countries, visit http://apps.fao.org/page/collections?subset=agriculture
For information on sustainable ways to end hunger, including
individual pages on different regions, visit The Hunger Project
website, www.thp.org/
www.planet.channel4.com,
Channel 4's new website to support their TV series for schools,
includes a section on food and farming. You will need to download
flash to use this website.
"What's the Big Idea? Food": a paperback by Emily Moore,
would make a useful addition to the school library. The book
covers a range of issues concerning food and farming, and
is well illustrated with cartoons. �3.99 from Hodder Children's
Books; ISBN 0 340 72405.
The
Gene Revolution
Visit the Competition
2 page for a list of useful websites concerning the potential
impact of genetically modified foods. In addition:
"Seeds for Life" (Christian Aid 2000), a video and
resource pack for 11-14 year olds that explores people's values
and views about biodiversity and genetically modified food,
focusing on one traditional farming community in India. The
pack consists of a 13 minute video and a 16 page booklet of
teachers' notes and activities. Available from Worldaware
(code V-21) �13.50.
Volume 47 of the "Issues" series focuses on
Genetically Modified Food. Geared towards the 16+ age
group, this 45 page book features a range of articles on the
different issues. Other titles include Refugees and Asylum
Seekers, Population Growth, Urban Sprawl and the Global Warming
Debate. �6.45 + P+P with a 10% discount if 20 or more books
are ordered. Photocopiable study guides are also available
to accompany the books at �1.50 each. Published by Independence,
PO Box 295, Cambridge CB1 3XP; Tel: 01223 566130, Fax: 01223
566131 or www.independence.co.uk
As part of their food rights campaign, Action Aid has
recently produced a variety of materials on the impact of
GM coffee on poor farmers. The Action Aid May 2001 briefing
paper, "Robbing Coffee's Cradle" provides a useful
case study for the 16+ age group. For more information, visit
www.actionaid.org or
contact Action Aid at Hamlyn House, MacDonald Road, London
N19 5PG, Tel: 020 7561 7561, Fax: 020 7272 0899 or e mail
[email protected]
Food First, a California-based institute for food &
development policy provide more detailed reports on a wide
variety of food issues, including the use of biotechnology.
Their website, www.foodfirst.org,
would be useful for research purposes.
Sustainable
Solutions south of the Sahara
FARM Africa Schools Pack 2001: Designed for the 11-14 age
group, this pack (available free of charge) will complement
the case study [hotlink]. The pack contains project sheets
on other FARM Africa projects in Kenya and Ethiopia, each
with its own corresponding web page (found on the 'Schools
Resource' pages at www.farmafrica.org.uk).
In addition, the pack includes an 'African Trading Game',
a simulation based on trading grain, goats, fresh water and
milk, and there are suggestions as to how you can help raise
funds for FARM Africa projects. Contact: FARM Africa, 9-10
Southampton Place, London WC1A 2EA, Tel: 020 7430 0440, Fax:
020 7430 0460 or e mail: [email protected]
On
Camera
A useful supplementary task to 'On Camera' can be found on
pages 8-9 of the new "GCSE Geography in Focus" textbook by
John Widdowson, John Smith & Roger Knill, comparing farm systems
in Sarawak, E. Malaysia and Wales. This new resource also
provides coverage of sustainable farming practices in Kenya
on pages 22-27, which would supplement the case study on pages
16-17. Students' Book �14.99 and Teachers' Book �50.00 from
John Murray Publishers, September 2001; Tel: 020 7493 4361,
Fax: 020 7499 1792 or www.johnmurray.co.uk
Competitions
Competition
1 gives an opportunity to test reading skills, recall
of information and navigation through the website pages. Hopefully,
students will find it fun to do too!
Competition
2 encourages students to take a particular standpoint
on genetically modified foods, and to research the issues
therein. Please encourage your students to take part! We have
prizes available, and hope that the closing date for entries
of March 1st 2002 gives you sufficient time to plan this activity
into your curriculum plan.
Development
Awareness in Action
 The
new website, www.wotw.org.uk/northsouth,
is a major breakthrough in helping to establish partnerships
between schools in the UK and schools in Africa, Asia, Latin
America and the Caribbean. The website is part of the North
South School Linking programme managed by The Central Bureau,
part of the Education and Training Group of the British Council.
International school links and partnerships will not only
support curriculum requirements such as citizenship with a
global dimension, but also help to improve understanding of
other cultures and the increasing interdependence between
countries.
Funded by the Department for International Development (DFID),
the site provides a wealth of information including advice
on setting up successful school links, lesson plans and project
ideas, and details of funding opportunities for teacher visits
and curriculum development. The site is part of Windows on
the World, www.wotw.org.uk
which provides a free partner-finding service, and from mid-September,
an online discussion forum for teachers.
The Action
page features three case studies of schools with established
links. Further case studies are included in the Summer 2001
edition of the 'North South School Linking Bulletin', available
from The Central Bureau, 10 Spring Gardens, London SW1A 2BN
and on their website.
For more information on North South School Linking, e mail
[email protected]
or contact The Central Bureau's World Links and Partnerships
team by phone (020 7389 4247) or fax (020 7389 4426).
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awareness amongst their students in an original, interesting
way, whether as part of the curriculum or via links that
you may have with developing countries. Please contact
the editor, [email protected]
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CURRICULUM GUIDANCE
Citizenship Education: The Global Dimension: A new
portal website, www.citizenship-global.org.uk
will be launched in Autumn 2001. The site will act as a one-stop
shop to access on-line resources and materials to support
teaching of the global dimension to citizenship education.
The various links to a wide range of sites are divided into
the following categories: on-line lesson plans and teaching
suggestions, whole school projects, training, guidance and
reference information, on-line resource catalogues and databases,
case studies and recommended websites.
Citizenship Education: The Global Dimension: Guidance for
KS 3 & 4 by Ali Brownlie (Development Education Association,
2001) is an illustrated 20 page booklet that aims to help
teachers get to grips with the global dimension to citizenship
for the 11-16 curriculum. It includes ideas for teaching methods,
and suggests six practical starting points and pathways for
delivering the citizenship component of the National Curriculum.
Order from Worldaware with code H-102, �5.50. The booklet
is also downloadable from www.citizenship-global.org.uk
which also provides access to support materials, and ideas
for classroom activities.
The Council for Environmental Education's website,
www.cee.org.uk provides
more background on 'education for sustainable development'
(ESD), and includes details of resources that could be used
to teach ESD in a variety of contexts.
CREDITS
The Global Eye Secondary website, Autumn 2001, was written
by Simon Scoones
Contributions and assistance from:
Rose Marie Nierras, Institute of Development Studies; Beckie
Malay, Treasurer of the Freedom from Debt Coalition, The Philippines;
Richard Turner, FARM Africa; Helen Stear, Central Bureau;
Iain Baird, Dene Magna School; Patricia Ducker, Whitecross
School; Gareth Norton, Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf; The Environment
Group, Institute of Development Studies.
Photographs:
Panos Pictures, Still Pictures, Iain Baird, Simon Scoones/Worldaware.
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