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Geography at key stage 3    (Year 8)

Unit 12: Images of a country

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Resources

Resources include:

  • supporting video programmes:
    • The geography programme - Brazil 2000 (BBC Schools)
    • Japan 2000 (the teacher's resource pack that supports these programmes considers Japanese pupils' views of the UK)
    • Notes from a small island by Bill Bryson (BBC)
  • Favela pack Fala Favela from CAFOD
  • Maps of exclusion: images, ideologies and a geography of modern Brazil by Colm Regan (1998)
  • extracts from The lost manuscript by Ruben Fonseca (1997)
  • websites, eg http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~sergiok/boaviagem.html; www.ibge.gov.br/english/
  • Making movies matter, Report of the Film Education Working Group (pages 73-9), British Film Institute, 1999 (website: www.bfi.org.uk)

Sections in this unit

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.
1. What are these places like?
2. What feelings does the photographer create in the observer?
3. What messages are given?
4. Who has chosen these views? Why these views?
5. Do the photographs tell the whole story about a place?