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Citizenship at key stage 3 (Year 7-9)
Unit 10: Debating a global issue
Section 5: How can the Amazon rainforest be developed in a sustainable way?
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Objectives |
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- to compare the way information is presented in different forms (NSE)
- to explore the idea of sustainable development and recognise its implications for different people, places and environments, and for their own lives
- to identify opportunities for sustainable development and to evaluate different sustainable development projects
- to recognise issues of global citizenship
- to clarify and develop their own values, and their attitudes towards certain issues
- to use the internet to find information/evidence
- to communicate in different ways, including by using ICT
- that different places are interdependent, and about the idea of global citizenship
- about the causes and effects of population change in two regions of Brazil, including migration
- to identify differences in levels of development within a country, and evaluate the effects of these differences on people's quality of life
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Activities |
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Outcomes |
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Children: |
- Ask pupils to use the internet, eg the websites of environmental groups, to investigate a range of sustainable development projects. Small groups of pupils should study different projects, and report their findings to the class.
- Ask pupils to summarise what these projects are attempting to achieve.
- Pupils could discuss why the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest is a global issue, and how people in the UK are involved (an example of interdependence).
- Pupils could join in an online debate with other schools about issues related to deforestation. Alternatively, the class could set up their own environmental group, developing their own website or online newsletter.
- Focus on how contact between two regions of a country may lead to changes in population totals, eg migration. Emphasise inequalities between north-east and south-east Brazil, eg in terms of lifestyle, health, wealth.
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- express the views of others, adding and justifying their own opinions
- analyse and evaluate information from the internet
- explain the idea of sustainable development and describe its implications for different people, places and environments, and for their own lives
- explain why deforestation in Brazil is a cause for global concern
- describe and explain the causes and effects of migration within Brazil
- compare northeast and southeast Brazil, showing awareness of their different levels of development and the impact this has on people's quality of life
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Points to note |
- Link with NSE: year
7 R3, year
8 R2, year
9 R4.
- Pupils could develop their own website to promote sustainable development, or could use part of the school's website for this purpose.
- This section links with unit 17 'School
linking'.
- Link with thinking skills: evaluation.
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This unit is divided into sections. Each section contains a sequence of
activities with related objectives and outcomes. You can view this unit by
moving through the sections or print/download the whole unit.
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