Free Trade

During our study of Trade we looked at whether or not Free Trade is a good thing. Using the website below, think about the following questions.

http://www.digital-week.info/education/milking_it/milkingit/information/the_issues/free_trade.htm

1. Can trade ever be free?
2. Can trade ever be fair?
3. How could the international trading system be made fairer for poor countries?

Accessibility

Looking at this Powerpoint

http://www.slideshare.net/geographyalltheway/ib-geography-global-interactions-mobile-phones

How does USA access to mobile phone technologies compare to Uganda's? (6)

And the power of mobile phone access - http://mugsoc.org/student-articles/the-bene%EF%AC%81ts-of-ghanas-mobile-phone-revolution-grace-rigby/

Haiti Research project

Earthquake Homework

Please go to the following website to access a project activity  Haiti Project

Measuring Economic Development

One of the best sites for this is Bitesize 

Make notes on how development is measured - particularly focusing on Economic development. You then need to answer the following exam questions fully.

What is GNP? (1) What is GDP? (1)

How can the economic activity of a country be measured? (4)

Identify 2 differences between the employment structures of countries at different levels of economic development.  Explain why these differences occur (5)

New Unit - The Global Citizen

Firstly, here's a link to your specification and past exam papers.

http://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/gcse-geography-a-j382-from-2012/

Secondly , moving away from Physical geography we are going to foray into Human geography for the next 4/5 weeks in preparation for our controlled assessment.

• Read pages 17- 19 of the specification. 
• Complete a class glossary of key terms (I will split you up to do this task).

Mountain Environments - Ignore until Feb

Enquiry Question 1

What do we know about mountains and how have they been represented in cultural resources? 

1. Look at the following sources and answer your Mind map question

• Find out more about mountain environments in general by looking at Project Britain - Mountains
• Find out about the highest mountain range in the world by looking at Himalayas
• Have a brief think about the Andes mountain range by looking at Andes
• Briefly review an example of a UK mountain range by looking at Snowdonia
• Look at Michael Palin's travels in the Himalayas - see Palin's Travels
• See how mountains have been depicted in films by watching trailers such as Cliffhanger, 7 Years in Tibet, Heidi, The Sound of Music
• Find out about expeditions to mountains by watching K2 expedition and Everest expedition
• Research the first person to reach the summit of Everest by looking at Sir Edmund Hillary
• See how Mount Everest has been portrayed in photographs by looking at Everest Photos
• Compare different ways that artists have painted mountains by looking at UK mountain paintings, Mountain paintings by WS Jennings, Montagne Sainte-Victoire by Cezanne
• Read poems inspired by mountains, such as Mountain Twilight and Significance of the Mountain
• Find out how mountains have inspired works of literature by reading the article The many peaks of mountains in literature
• Listen to music inspired by the Mountains at Appalachian Mountain Music USA & Music of the Andes

2. Watch Vertical Limit on YouTube and complete the worksheet below

Worksheet - Worksheet Link (Make sure you download it so you can write on it).

Vertical Limit- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgtZZXlZ1T0

3. 

How is the mountain environment represented in this picture?

Pick out 3 mountain features that you can see. 

What is extreme about this environment?

4 Top Gear  - You tube video of Top Gear presenters in the Andes

How do people use hot deserts?

An excellent site for revision - http://www.kasgeography.co.uk/doku.php?id=extreme_environments_-_deserts

You may want to look at enquiry question 6.